wedding and bears

I am married now. Whoa, weird. Though it has only been a few days I am already finding it strange that I actually had our wedding on Saturday, not someone else’s but mine. Thank you to all who have given advice and helped out in the planning and idea giving. FYI: 1pm was the best choice for a ceremony time ever. Also, I am beyond thankful, and thank you again, for those that came to Austin to witness our marriage. I feel truly humbled and blessed, words cannot express my gratitude.
Bears-
We saw bears, not from the car but on the hiking trail… on the top of a mountain. We came around a bend, heard some rustling and down, and onto the trail flew this big black bear… whoa and awesome. I had said I wanted to see a bear, but at that moment had just told Lindsey that this would not be a good place to see a bear… of course it happened… it’s like I have espn or something. Maybe just a Holy Spirit tidbit of intuition… whatever. At this point Lindsey is like, “we should definitely go back down (or back the way we came).” My response, was a very manish “no-way, we have to finish this trail. We should just wait for a little while to see if they leave.” At this point we had looked to see if the bears had continued their meandering down the mountain, but this was not the case. In fact, there were 3 other little cubs, not like medium adult dog sized cubs but legit puppy sized cubs, they were mini…. with huge ears. A few times these little munchkin bears started to walk down the trail toward us but were soon, what sounded like, barked back toward momma. The first time, it looked like they jumped down the mountain but they actually came right back to the road and continued to look at us. After this, they moved back a little; and so our dance and observation with the bears continued. After about ten minutes, the rustling seemed to move to a position above us on the mountain… we were not ready to be “bear pounced.” Thus ended our hike and we retraced the steps that we had so strenuously climbed. Not exactly the outcome that I wanted but you have to fend for the wife at some point and some times that means walking away.

Hopefully, I will be able to find my camera cord so that I can put bear cub pictures up but we will see.

Random note: I hope that I can start to get Lindsey to write on this thing rather than just me.