Today we went first to Wimberley Glassworks. It was really cool! They are glass-blowers, making all sorts of beautiful glass pieces. We learned about how the furnaces work, about glass temperatures, and much more, all while we watched them make a number of Christmas Tree Ornaments.
It was free to watch, but none of the pieces are cheap, neither in quality nor price!
The workshop.
Someone is trying to fall to their doom in this picture. Thanks Mom for saving her!
This was just as they were getting started. At this station, he prepped the glass and applied the coloring to it
There's a video of most of the process on our youtube channel.
From there we went up to see Canyon Lake. A member of our congregation works there as an engineer and gave us a bit of a tour. He showed us an active beehive in a tree and told us some interesting facts about the history and the area. The limestone makes the water fairly clear.
Active Honeybee Hive
The water was pretty cold. They didn't care much!
This girl. So cute!
There were a couple fall-ins. Those weren't as happy moments.
This is the spillway. In 2002, massive flash flooding caused a huge overflow. The water that came over this spillway quickly created a deep ravine on its way to the river below.
This lake has many a gorgeous sunset. We had some cold kids who wanted to get moving, though, so this was as much as we got to see of that.
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