Well, we've left the cozy confines of the Metroplex behind and are spending Memorial Day at a nearby campground on lovely Lake Whitney. Two weeks here just lazing about while we wait for grandson D3 (David III) to finish up his school year. (No sense wheeling into San Antone while his days are filled with learnin'.) Except for the holiday weekend itself, this is how crowded the grownups' pool complex stayed. The 95 degree heat wasn't so hard to take - floating around on the cool, clear water - but the half mile hike to the pool could be brutal. Had a mighty tasty Texas-sized steak dinner with everyone to celebrate the holiday.
George W. Bush's Western White House is located a short twenty miles away outside of the bustling metropolis of Crawford, TX, population 705, so we thought we'd take a drive over. Pictured here is the lunch counter/ convenience store/ gas station on the highway - about the only business in town - where we found out that the Prairie Chapel Ranch which the Bush's bought in 1999 was about 9 miles outside of town. (How did they find this place????) We finally stumbled across it on a little feeder road, only to be stopped in our tracks by a serious barricade (had to keep out the likes of Cindy Sheehan) and a seriously-armed U.S. marshal. In our wandering we came across the Prairie Chapel Baptist Church where daughter Jenna was married in '08, but we didn't get a picture of it, dang it!
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