Life does not get much better!!

We left Mission on Thursday morning at 7:45 am to start our 5 hour drive to Austin. The drive was pretty uneventful, the highways fairly empty and we got to Doug's dad house around 11:30 am. It is nice to spend holidays with family and between Doug's stepbrother, his dad, his wife Vee and her two sons with their wives and children, we had a pretty full house.


Dinner was served around 2 pm and everything was delicious. I love having big dinners with family. We left about 4 pm to start back on our 5 hour drive to Mission. A cold front was coming through, the temperature had dropped already 20 degrees when we left Austin, but we managed to get home around 9:30 pm before the cold front. By the time we woke up the next morning, it was in the mid 40's.

Friday we were invited to the Thanksgiving leftover dinner with our friends. Dave and Sue were gracious enough to lend us their huge living room in their new house, since it was to cold to sit outside. There was nothing leftover about this dinner and Dale was so sweet to make another pecan, chocolate chip and Southern Comfort pie. It was to die for and there was no piece left at the end of the dinner.



So now it is Sunday we just got back from Turkey soup dinner again at Dave and Sue's house. We had a humongous pot of turkey soup, bread, squash/raisin bread and brownies. The ladies cut up everything yesterday and made a most delicious soup for today.

Now you tell me. Can live get any better? :-)

Time flies when you are having fun!

I can't believe that we have been back for almost three weeks now. We have been busy, but it feels like time is just passing by to fast.

The Friday after we got back to Mission we went back up to New Braunfels, since Doug wanted to go to Wurstfest. Normally I am not that impressed with these celebrations, but it was not bad at all.


The food was good and it amazed me just how many of these old German drinking songs I remember, since I never used to like "Oktoberfest" in Germany. And just like last year the line for the potato pancake was so long and moving so slow that I gave up after 1/2 hour of waiting. We were told that people were in line for 1 1/2 hours for three potato pancakes. No pancake can taste that great for me to wait that long.

On the way back to Mission on Saturday, we decided to go see the USS Lexington before going home. We were up in Corpus Christi two years ago and had to leave after checking out the Aquarium early because of a bad storm coming in.

This ship is amazing. It took as four hours to check it all out. I had no idea that it is basically like a small city with a hospital, dentist, barber shop, post office and of course a big mess hall. The machine shop was pretty impressive too, never mind the huge area underneath the deck where they park the planes.

Don't I look great in the driver's seat?? Unfortunately they would not give me the keys to start the big boat, so I could not take it for a spin.

If anybody reading this blog has served in the Navy, please excuse my probably incorrect terminology, since somebody already told me I can't call this floating city a "boat". We had a blast and arrived back in Mission in the evening.

We have also been busy pressure washing out lot, washed the truck and the car, and I got my planting done for the season, unless we get frost again. Temperatures dropped down to 43 degrees last night.


We still have a very big "To Do List", so I am sure we will not get bored for yet a while.