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.