Jan. 18: Our Anniversary

Our week was pretty uneventful. With me working, there's not much time to go play.

However, Larry did go with several people from the park to a small local community, San Patricio. It was named after Saint Patrick of Ireland and settled by 200 Irish families in 1829. Their only obstacle was drought and Indians. The Mexican government welcomed them because they wanted the area colonized in the hopes of holding onto Texas (first town in Texas to hang a woman). Fast forward and the railroad bypassed San Patricio, the county seat, buy went thru Sinton, which became the new county seat (Mr. Sinton had lots of money). It was pretty much a ghost town until 1971 when it was revitalized and many of the homes in the area were restored.

Now, St. Patrick's day in San Patricio has turned into a multi-festival day with the Rattle Snake Races in the spotlight - which we hope to attend in March. AND, for $20 I hope to be in the race. But with a couple thousand other people hoping for the same thing (well, maybe not all of them), I might be in a long line. I'm thinking this sound like lots of fun and hope that Larry will be really fast with the camera.


They toured the small museum and.....















the courthouse with a jail which apparently some of our folks ended up in - but it doesn't really surprise me--these older people tend to be kind of rowdy when they're out and about.





The photos are all from Tom Offer and Guy Cote (both Canadians soaking up our American history) - thanks men for allowing me to use your pix for my blog.

The group ended up eating at the "Butter Churn" buffet in Sinton which they all said was great (but most of us know how much Larry loves buffets). I'm anticipating a return to San Patricio with much of the same group just for the dinner. The beautiful painted mural was on the outside wall of the restaurant.





For our anniversary, we skipped the pot luck dinner here at the park and went to Texas Roadhouse and then a movie, Mall Cop. We got to the movie an hour early, so we walked the parking lot for about 20 minutes trying to digest that big dinner. The longest line at the theater was to "My Bloody Valentine" and found out that it was in 3D - still didn't sound like my kind of movie.

Today we defrosted the refrigerator and in general, cleaned house.

Elise took this video when Henry & Anna were here. This is a typical happy hour--except we don't usually have this many Kansan's. This year there are 3 couples of us Kansan's here for at least a month. Last year, Larry and I were an oddity - most people come from further north. We also have a couple from Oklahoma this year.


I want to get this posted so there will be a special edition this week on our surprise anniversary party last night. Also, my computer is acting up and I may have to take it in to see what the problem is.