Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

During the vacation, we stayed at Heidelberg Lodges located in New Braunfels, Texas, which is next to river, and Schlitterbahn Water Park. This resort is 1930s building – I am sure they have been restored over years but inside are way old. You probably will notice some of pictures at our gallery.

I want to make comment about this resort where I had to request that TV to be replace because it is not closed-captioned. They finally bring it in and exchange with no problem. Of course they doesn’t have TTY, fire alarm strobe and all that.

We used heavily on our T-Mobile Sierra Wireless PMCIA card on our laptop to make phone calls via Relay Service, keep in touch with emails and check local activities thru website. It’s great way to surf during the vacation.

During spare times, we do a lot of fishing and swimming at river by Heidelberg Lodges. It was nice way to walk from our lodge and do all this stuff nearby.

In case you wonder why we pick this place – it has to do with my wife’s side family where they used to hang out these same lodges 20+ years ago. We are doing it to bring up some memories for them.

Same time, we are celebrating our father-in-law Jess Carpenter that he made it thru since his brain surgery about six months ago. He just had his check up by his specialist right before come to this vacation; he is officially in remission at this point. We are very happy for him and everyone else.

To view gallery — click here.

Check out Heidelberg Lodges website - click here

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My family and I spend our vacation with my wife Misty’s families at New Braunfels, Texas for five days. Misty and I went there many years ago and forgot what it is like to be in this weather. They have high humidity unlike in DFW area.

Anyway, we went to Schlitterbahn Water Park at the beginning of the week to avoid bad storm upcoming later that week. All of us enjoyed it very much – even its on Monday, its still crowd during the day. Seems Schlitterbahn Water Park is doing well, they have expand into another side of New Braunfels downtown plus another water park in South Padre Island. I am impressed…

When you get chance, try this place!

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Visit Schlitterbahn Water Park website: http://www.schlitterbahn.com/

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