Marine Museum Pictures

I got the pictures from Dwayne Jackson Saturday, Twila told me about them since I wasn’t feeling real good and didn’t even get on the internet all day.  Got around to downloading them today and thought I would post some of them.  Of all the interesting things at the Museum this is what he sent me for pictures.  You can tell there aren’t any “old people” in this bunch.  The first one is Dwayne and Vicki Jackson.

This is Jack and Barbara Miller.

Last but certainly not least, Twila and Me.

I think we are suppose to be the King and Queen of Spain, no I don’t remember their names but they financed Columbus’ exploration.  That’s the way I remember it anyway hope I didn’t rewrite history.

Marine Museum and Big Tree

We went to the Marine Museum in Corpus Christi today.  I forgot my camera so I didn’t get any pictures but I hope to get some from Dewayne Jackson as soon as he gets back to Oklahoma.  Twila and I had never gone to the Museum and it was really interesting.  They had the replica’s of the ships that Columbus used to discover America.  The ships were made to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the discovery of America in 1492.  They were made as close as possible to the actual ships using wood from the same forests.  Only two of the ships are at the Museum.  The third one is on the dock along the private ship dock at down town Corpus.  It was amazing how small they were.  The men didn’t even have an enclosed sleeping area.  They slept under the over hang of the front and back upper decks or on the floor of the main deck with no cover.

After the Museum we went to the Big Tree.  It is a Live Oak that they say is over 1000 years old.  It is on Goose Island East of Fulton, Texas.  I still didn’t have my camera but Barbara Miller did and I downloaded the pictures she took.    

We had eight of us that went to the Museum and the Big Tree.  This picture is of, from the left to the right, Bert and Jana Huffman, Me and Twila, and Dewayne and Vicki Jackson.

This is Barbara and Jack Miller.

This was a sign next to the tree.

Bus Trip to Progresso Mexico

A bunch of us got up early and went to the club house to wait for the bus to take us to Progresso, Mexico.  Progresso is a regular visit for us every year and we generally go down on the bus for the first trip.  It is $35 each and the bus goes across the border and parks in the parking lot of a nice Mexican Restaurant.  We buy Twila’s prescriptions down there and save several hundred dollars a year.  We buy one prescription in 1 mg instead of 1/2 mg and pay about half what the 1/2 mg costs at Wal Mart besides being able to break it into and make it go 2 months instead of 1 month.  It makes you understand just how much the drug companies are over charging us.  Here is a few of us waiting on the bus at about 6:15 am.

The bus trip takes about 3 1/2 hours with us getting there about 10am then everyone heads out to do their shopping and we all meet back at the restaurant for lunch and then head back for more shopping.  The bus is parked in an enclosed parking area so the bottom of the bus is let open and we just stop by and drop off our purchases in the storage area of the bus.

Progresso is different than a lot of border towns, it is for shopping only.  There aren’t any of the topless bars or that kind of thing at least on the main drag and I don’t think their are any period.

 

This is as raunchy as it gets and it's actually a bar that is open to the street.

I’m not really sure how good burro tacos are since I didn’t visit this restaurant.  I really hope that is Spanish for Burrito.

We arrived back at Aransas Pass about 7:30 p.m. which made it a very long day.  When we got back we all went to Dairy Queen for supper as our wives said they weren’t cooking.

Soggy Day

It’s a wet and dreary day today.  It started raining last night after we went to bed and is still at it.  We have our usual lake in front of the motor home.  The “Group” loaded up about 11:30am and headed to a local seafood restaurant and then headed over to the island to the Marine Institute.  The Marine Institute is run by the University of Texas.  It is a small, and the key word is FREE, museum.  We may play cards later.

Twila and I went to carving classes Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  The classes were at another RV park over in Fulton, Texas.  I took a class in deep relief carving and Twila took a class in chip carving.  We started class at 9am, took a quick lunch and then stayed until 4pm.  After 3 days we were exhausted.  Neither one of us got finished with our project but I took more wood off the board than I have in two years on the other carving that I had started.  I am going to include a picture of both carvings but remember they aren’t finished.  If or when we finish them I will try to post a picture again.

I remember I had said I would post some of the carvings at the Wood Carvers Show Twila and I helped with here in Aransas Pass.

This is an example of chip carving by the lady that taught Twila’s class.

This is the carving that won “Best of Show, People’s Choose” and most everything else.

Group Activities

2-4-2010

You think this group doesn’t do things together?  Well we do.  Today we left the park at 8:30am going to, of all places, the city/county health department.  Why you may ask?  Well maybe you wouldn’t ask but I’ll tell you anyway.  We went to get “Shingle” shots.  No not to get shingles but to prevent getting them.  The shot was $10 each and according to the information furnished it is about 50% effective.  I have never had shingles and from talking to people that have had them, such as my sister-in-law Jan, I don’t want them so I think $10 is a bargain to reduce the odds by 50%.  I certainly don’t get that good of odds at the casino.  Of course anytime we all go anywhere we have to eat out.  We went to the “Souper Salad” which as it sounds is a buffet with great salad bar and lots of soups along with baked potatoes, pizza, and of course desserts.

Now I understand we are all going to a really nice seafood restaurant called Charlotte Plummers.  The occasion, as if we actually needed one, is the arrival of Dale and Jennifer Glimp.  They both still work for a living but are coming down for a week or two on vacation.  They are in our RV chapter but aren’t bringing the RV with them.  The other day when we bought the Tee Shirts in Corpus several of us bought “Monkey Shirts”, they aren’t really money shirts but baby Orangutans.  We are not really sane but we do have a lot of fun.

2-5-2010

Well we went to Charlotte Plummers and got really full which is a condition we must really like since we do it a lot.  We had people in the restaurant asking us what the Monkey Shirts were for.  We just told them it didn’t take much to entertain us or that this is what old people do for fun.  We got some really strange looks.  We had more club members show up today.  Jack and Barbara Miller and Dwayne and Vicki Jackson drove their RV’s down for a two week stay, so we went out to a Mexican Restaurant for supper.  Are you starting to get the idea we eat a lot?

2-6-2010

We left camp this morning at 7:45am heading for a breakfast buffet.  After eating for about 45 minutes Twila and I had to go to the Community Center to help with the Woodcarvers Show.  We were scheduled to sell the admission tickets for the show.  There are some real nice pieces in the show.  People who don’t just make wood chips like I do but are real artists.  I will try to remember to take my camera and get some pictures.