Austin blogs: A trip to the rancho

The other day I went to David's (who is our friend and the owner of the Hacienda cafe) ranch. He has a really big ranch, really hilly. He owns some cattle, about 80. He has a little stream going through it, it is only little now because we haven't had a good rain recently, but he says it's really big when there is a rain. He had a huge tree, must of been hundreds of years old. He is trying to grow some jungle around the stream, but the cows keep tramping in the river.

Before we go to the ranch, we stopped at a town called Coxquihui. We went to the church, it was made completely out of stone, without a stucco, so you could see the stones. It's a town that produces coffee (it is high in the mountains), so we saw a lot of coffee plants and bought some good coffee at a store on the hill.



When we arrived at the ranch, we were on the top of a hill and it was beautiful to look out. We started hiking down to the stream. There were a lot of empty places where it looked like there used to be a stream, but it hadn't rained for a while. We started hiking down the river and it started looking a little more like jungle. The trees are amazing, they have so many other plants growing on them.



We walked down along the stream and then climbed a big hill and you could see out to the end of his ranch.





It was a lot of fun going there. I want to got there again sometime.



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Coming soon: Willa blogs about making chocolate.