Spring Break at Barton Creek Resort

We went to Barton Creek Resort on the west side of Austin for Spring Break and had a great trip. The weather was wonderful and the resort was awesome.

Here is the week in pictures....

Our first stop was Zilker Park to see my friend Jennifer and her son Peyton. We had fun riding the train around the park. It was HOT that day...



Then we were off to the resort... They had a special Spring Break game room setup with video games, a ping-pong table and lots of board games. We made at least one stop in the game room each day. Here is Danny and the kids playing the racing game. Another favorite was pinball, David is quite good!
Another fun activity was the nature trail. It was about 1/2 mile in length and it started almost outside our door. There was a great treehouse the kids climbed on and a huge teepee that they loved playing in. Hannah carried the camera for most of the nature hike and wanted to take tons of pictures, I will post only one, I had at least 15 others to choose from...none of them have any people.


We swam at the pool everyday. I don't have any pictures of us at the pool for 2 reasons; first we never remembered the camera and second I didn't want any photographic evidence of me in a maternity swimsuit!!

We ate lunch 2 days at the buffet near the pool. It was great food and the kids ate free!! Near the tables for lunch there was a giant chess set. The kids loved it!! Hannah wanted to play so badly, we kept telling her she was too young to play, but she persisted....so we let the them around with the pieces one day, they had a blast with their own 'game' of chess!
















We played put-put golf one evening. It was fun to watch the kids, they are too little to really play, but they sure had fun. It was quite a typical outing for us with the kids - Danny took both inside for a potty break and there were tears at least once.


























The resort also had a family scavenger hunt set-up for the week. The clues sent us all over the all place, from the tennis courts to the golf pro shop and one of the restaurants. The kids loved it and we all had fun. Hannah was the official 'clue reader,' she was quite good at her job and impressed several staff members. Here are Danny and the kids on the tennis courts looking for a clue.


We had a wonderful and relaxing week. We have discussed making Barton Creek at spring break tradition!!