UT football and in between

Saturday we went to the UT vs Texas Tech football game. We leave Georgetown 4 hours prior to the game to get to the stadium and park. The Alumni Center opens 3 hours prior to the game and there is a Chapter Leaders Reception room that they still let us come to. I was very active on the Board in Corpus Christi for many years and they finally made me a life-time member. The reception room always has food of some kind and is a comfortable place to wait until about 30 minutes before the game. As those of you who are interested in those kinds of things already know, UT won the game. We've had rain here for several days so not much got done. Wayne did go shopping one day to buy a fly rod for George who took him fishing everyday for a week in Valdez and I went shopping one day for a new comforter for the bedroom.

One thing about rainy weather is that when the sun does come out it makes for wonderful sunsets. I took this one on Tuesday


I opened the window to take this picture and the rain came pouring in.

Wayne and I have been talking about getting another dog since we had to put ours down 3 years ago. Maybe talking isn't the right word. I've been wanting and he's been resisting. When we were in Puyllup, WA on the way up to Hazelton in June we were camped at a campground at a fairground where there was going to be a dog show. There were two women there with 30+ Maltese dogs and I fell in love. Wayne said I could get a dog when we got back from Alaska. I found out that the women were from Buda, TX which is just south of Austin. We drove out on Friday afternoon and this is our new little boy. He is 10 months old and was to be a show dog but one of his testicles didn't drop so they had him neutered and they were looking for a home for him. He weighs around 5 lbs full grown. We will pick him up on the way back from Corpus Christi and Wayne's cardiologist appointment.


Saturday was the UT vs UT El Paso football game. It was 90 degrees at game time and I thought I would die. Fortunately we are on the West side of the stadium so eventually the sun goes down behind the stands and we were in the shade for the last half of the game. We won again.

Here it is Sunday and we are waiting for our granddaughter, Michelle, to come over for lunch and a nice visit. We will leave early tomorrow for Corpus Christi and Wayne's appointment. We will spend the night and then return to Georgetown.

Texas sunsets

I was working on the computer tonight and looked out my window and say this beautiful sunset. I had to show you that Texas has beautiful sunsets too.

These are a little blurry as I was standing on top of the picnic table and it wasn't too steady.

Tomorrow is the big game between The University of Texas and Texas Tech. It is a big rivalry but we are favored to win.

Cheyenne to Georgetown, Texas

Wednesday morning we got up and drove to Canyon, Texas. There were lots of antelope along the way.

As we left entered New Mexico and headed west towards Texas we began seeing the
Capulin Volcano National Monument in the distance.

Here is a better view of the volcano. One year on our way up to New Mexico for the summer we drove closer to the volcano. It is really interesting.

We arrived in Georgetown, Texas about 5pm. We will stay here for almost a month for football games.

Our grand-daughter, Michelle, came over about 5:30 and we visited and went to dinner. We went for real Texas BBQ since we hadn't had any in a long time.

Its nice to know that we don't have to get up early tomorrow. Expect updates to slow down a bit now that we are settling in for a while.

Helena to Cheyenne

We left Helena on the morning of the 14th and headed south. We stopped at a roadside park north of Billings and a fifthwheel pulled into the space next to us. The next thing I knew Wayne was telling me to come outside. The couple in the fifthwheel were Larry and Kathy who are out next door neighbors in Rockport.

We visited for a while. They were spending the night in Billings. We had hoped to get all the way to Cheyenne so we set off on our separate ways. However, just after pulling out of the rest stop, the check engine light came on again so we too the motorhome to the Cummins service place in Billings. They checked it over and said that they place that fixed it should have also changed the oil so they could do that in the morning. I called Kathy to find out where they were staying and we stayed next to them that night.

After Cummins changed the oil and fixed a blown fuse in the air conditioner we were on our way again. We got as far as Cheyenne and spent the night Tuesday in a rest stop on the southern edge of Cheyenne. I didn't take pictures along the way because we had already done this trip last week.

Casper to Helena

We slept fairly good last night but I can’t wait to sleep in my own bed tonight.  After breakfast we set out for Helena.  This is a road that we have traveled before so I didn’t take many pictures.  Here is an interesting rock formation.

Here is  picture of the Little Big Horn memorial.  We have been to it before so we didn’t stop this trip.

Here is another small church and barn.

This is a lake that is close to Helena.  I wasn't able to get good pictures of it going to Cheyenne.

It is  really nice lake with campgrounds and homes around it.

Wayne communicated with the repair shop yesterday so we know that they think the problem is fixed.  We will check it out in the morning then go to an RV repair shop to see if they can get the refrigerator to work on gas.  Wayne talked with Rich the other day and he thinks it might be a cracked igniter.  Hopefully it is something easy.

Cheyenne to Laramie and then to Casper

We slept a little better last night.  They upgraded us to a king bed so we didn’t know when each other got out of bed.  After breakfast we headed to Laramie for the game.

It was cloudy but with some blue skies showing through.

 

More interesting rock formations.

We stopped at a rest stop and found this statue of Abraham Lincoln. 

We went to the Horn Fans.com tailgate party before the game.  We had upgraded our seats and here was our view of the field.

 

Here is the view looking North.

And here is the view looking South.  If you didn’t watch the game then you don’t know that Texas forgot to play during the first half.  They must have gotten some lecture in the locker room at half time because they came back and scored 21 unanswered points in the second half to win 41 to 10.

After the game we headed back towards Montana and the motorhome.  It got dusk early on so I didn't get many pictures.

We stopped in Casper.

Sheridan to Cheyenne

We didn’t sleep well last night.  We are too used to sleeping in our own bed. 

We got up and enjoyed half of our cinnamon rolls then headed out for Cheyenne.

There are antelope everywhere.

We stopped to get better pictures but they spooked and started running.

Spotted this unusual rock formation.

The terrain is very unusul with rocky formations, rolling mounds, and high mountains in the distance.

 

Here is another interesting rocky formation.

Here is the other side of the formation.

After we got to Cheyenne we heard the weather forecast and set out to buy long johns for the game tomorrow.  As we left I got this unusual picture of the cold front moving in.

I did catch another beautiful sunset though.