Halloween Brunch

Halloween morning we woke up and decided to call some friends from the campground that we stayed in last year.  We met Warren and Jean for lunch at a wonderful restaurant in Georgetown named Wildfire.

We found out that they used to stay at the park we currently are staying in until one fall when it was full.  Small world.

After lunch we went out to their campground and visited for a while.  Their dog, Randy, and Trouble used to play together.  Since we are gone they got Randy a pretty grey cat to play with.

To Lockhart for Bar B Q

On Wednesday we drove to Lockhart to meet a friend for lunch.

Lockhart is the Bar B Q capitol of Texas.  We chose to go to Blacks for lunch.  Here is Wayne getting ready to go in.

 

Blacks is very old as the sign below says.

The walls are covered with horns, heads, and pictures.

Ron is our UT buddy from Corpus Christi.  He was in town visiting his brother and his wife who also joined us for lunch.

Wayne and Ron discussed UT football long after his brother and his wife left.

 

Lockhart has one of the prettiest courthouses around.  You can see the clock tower and some of the spires above the old buildings on Main Street.

This is the other side of Main Street.

We had a great time visiting with Ron, his brother, and his wife.  Next time we will try a different Bar B Q restaurant.

UT vs. ISU

We got up early—very early—and drove to the stadium. We have to be at the stadium three hours prior to game time to park close. We went to the Texas Exes Chapter Leader Room to visit with the staff and old friends. I decided an wanted to take a picture of my life membership posting so I went out into the lobby. I ran into a former neighbor of mine and we visited for a while until her husband arrived. Marsha and Jim lived next to us when the girls were young and our children practically lived at each others houses along with a few others on the block. We went to all the UT football games together and then partied afterwards. They have both recently retired from teaching. Here are Marsh and Jim.

I went upstairs and discovered that those members whose numbers are above 27,000 are not framed but are in the big leather books that are laid out.

This is the page that Wayne and I are listed on.

And here are our names.

Here is the UT band before the game.

On the left they are bringing out a huge Texas flag.

This is the megatron that we have to look down on from our lofty seats. The team is touching some longhorn horns that are mounted on the wall. It didn’t help them.

At half-time both the Longhorn band and the Alumni Band performed. The Alumni Band spelled out HOOK EM while the student band spelled out DELOSS for our athletic director.

It was good to see everyone who sit around us but it wasn’t a good game for us.

Waller, Texas

Tuesday we drove to Waller, Texas where our daughter, Nola, and our grandson, Matt, live.  Matt had a jazz band concert Tuesday night.  He is first chair saxophone.  The band was larger than I expected and they played wonderful big band music.

Matt is the third saxophone from the left.

He reluctantly agreed to have his picture taken with his grammie.

We spent the next day just relaxing and visiting with Nola.  Here is Austin trying to get Wayne’s attention.

Here is Trouble cuddling with his “sister”, Nola.  Her words—not mine.

As we were leaving Thursday morning we passed this cute display welcoming people to Chappell Hill, Texas.  This is the place that always has the best bluebonnets in the spring.

Sunday, October 17 and Monday, October 18

Sunday we went to church with the couple camped across from us. He was preaching. We enjoyed our time there and were made to feel very welcome.

Monday we drove to the Camping World in New Braunfels and then to the outlet malls in San Marcos. Here is Wayne waiting at the Cracker Barrel for Jim and Bette, friends from Corpus Christi.

They arrived shortly and we had lunch, visited, and shopped till we dropped.

We had such a good time visiting as we hadn’t seen them since April. When we got back to the campground we were rewarded with a beautiful sunset.

Good Bye fall colors, Hello Texas

We left Ste Sainte Marie September 30th and said good by to the fall foliage.

 

We stayed Elkhart, Indiana for four nights.  We ordered a new recliner for the motorhome and had it sent to Red Bay, Alabama.

On the way to Denton, TX we drove through St. Louis.  I loved the way the bridge we were on reflected in the picture of the arch.

Here is the St. Louis skyline.

This Indian statue greeted us at a truck stop in Oklahoma.

Finally we crossed into Texas where we were greeted with the welcome sign and a big lone star.

 

Saturday night we met Bob and Doris and his nurse, Adam at a Mexican restaurant to celebrate Bob’s birthday.

Bob and Wayne had a good time visiting over margaritas.

Doris and I had a chance to catch up on what was going on in her world and mine.

Adam came alone to monitor Bob’s IV.  He has become part of the family since he has been giving Bob his IVs for so long.

Monday night we took Michelle and her Uncle Todd out to celebrate her birthday.  Before we went to dinner we stopped off to look at convertibles.  I want a second car when we are stopped for the winter and Wayne wants it to be a convertible.

I can’t believe out first grandchild has turned out to be this beautiful 21 year-old who will be graduating from The University of Texas this May.

We are spending most of our time in Austin just enjoying being able to sit out in the evenings.