Touch of Class

Now that our kids are gone and before the big bro from California visited, we squeezed in a boat trip with our boating club.  We went to visit this marina

Aqua Marina fka Palm Harbour

This place was the first place we went to on our maiden voyage with the club.  Last time we went there, all the members were peeking out of their boats seeing how we, or should I say, Gary, pulled the boat into this very tight marina.  He passed with flying colors of course.  This time, we barely got a nod as they knew there was going to be nothing to look at when we dock

Tight squeeze

You can see by this picture how tight a squeeze it is.  When we left, there was a house boat on the end of the dock that we all had to get around.  Good thing the Captain knows what he is doing.

While we were there, we did our usual walk around the marina to see if we could spot any unusual boats.  Our walks never fail us.  We saw this house boat

Big House Boat

You could hardly tell there was a door in the back

Nice Door

Later that day, as we were sitting around by the pool, I saw these….I don’t think you can call them boats, Gary said they are made out of surf boards

What the heck?

No thank you!

I can’t imagine they take them out where there is any kind of wave action, I think they would sink pretty quickly.  Besides, too much sun for me

Although this marina is running under new ownership, they still had the boat taxi to the little island next door.  As we had our boats at the marina, we could hitch a ride on that boat and check out the beach.  Gary decided to take advantage of that opportunity

Water Taxi ride

That’s him in the back….HI GARY!  He and another couple had a lot of fun.  The wife went looking for sharks teeth and the both the guys decided to take a dip in the Gulf.  Unfortunately, two hard of hearing men and a lot of waves aren’t good for having a conversation.  I’m glad I missed that LOL.   The Gulf was a warm 82°,  and just perfect for a swim.

It was pretty hot while we were there and we spent most days in the pool.  I heard that there was a boat that had a pig on it.  A pig!  The boat was right next to the pool and they had a pig wind sock on it too.  One of the people from the club came up by the pool with their dog and the pig on the boat came right up to the gate on the boat.  His tail was a waggin to beat the band.  Can you see him?

Miss Piggy

I hate to say it, but nobody ever saw the pig get off the boat.  I hate to imagine where that thing is

pooping

I think I’ll stick with my cat.

We had a great time there and we’ll enjoy coming back sometime.

One of the guys in our association had a birthday recently and his son bought him a professional fishing trip for his birthday.  Lucky guy.  He was able to bring a few friends and it turns out, Gary was considered a friend, so Gary got to go on the deep see fishing adventure.  Now I didn’t get to go along so I only have one picture, you just can’t trust these men to put down their fishing rods for one minute and take a couple of pictures.  But here is what happened.

The boat was out of Naples so they had to get up bright and early to get to the boat on time.  All six of them left here at 4:30 in the morning along with coolers of ice for their big catch.

The boat was a commercial fishing boat about 45 feet long.  They said the first mate deserved an A+ for his job.  The fishermen just stood at the side of the boat with their rods in their hands and the first mate, put on the bait, took off the fish, if you caught one, and all the while he was fishing off the back of the boat to catch bait fish with a net.  If they didn’t catch anything within 15 minutes or so, the Captain moved the boat to another location.  They were just fishing for red grouper.  Gary caught the most and the biggest fish and he got a free T-Shirt to prove it .  Everyone was able to catch their limit and had a lot of fun with the catch and release fish too.

On the way back to shore, they boys were beat, what with all the fresh air and the straining to pull in those big fish.  Luckily the boat was well quipped and there were a few bunks and couches in the cabin they but got a comfy place to catch a nap.  One poor guy had to sleep sitting up on a cooler in the back of the boat LOL.  I bet he’ll be quicker to dibs a bunk next time

So here is the one and only picture of their catch

Big ugly fish

After the photo op was over, the first mate cleaned and filleted all the fish.  Lucky they had all those coolers with ice to carry home their catch.  They arrived home at about 7:30.  We had a yummy fish fry and were able to hear all the tall fish tales about the ones that got away.

Well, well.  How is everyone doing?  It is hard to believe it is almost the end of May.  Where did our spring go?  Or is it still coming?  Sometimes it’s hard to tell when you live up north.   I can tell you where our spring went…..we were invaded by visitors from up north

The Fam from up north

and at the same time

Golfers from Minnesota

That makes 7 visitors, all at once, in our little two bedroom condo.  Good thing the boat was tied up out back, it makes for the perfect 3rd bedroom.  And it turned out to be Gary’s and mine place of Nirvana to get away from all the noise and ciaos ;).

We did have a lot of fun times.  The first order of business was a boat ride!

Boat rides

Of course for the three golfers there was plenty of

Drinks!

We put the crab pot in again this year

Where are the crabs?

We tried chicken necks this year and as you can see, we caught nothing.  Last year we used gizzards and hearts and caught a couple of them.  Who knows what we’ll try next year.  Funniest part of the whole crabbing experience?  You buy some cheap chicken parts, you stick them in the trap, you throw the trap in the canal, you wait several hours, you check the trap, you find nothing in it, then you wait several more hours or maybe even over night and you still get nothing.  Then Gary spends hours cleaning the thing so it doesn’t stink when we store it for another year LOL.  This is why crabs are so plentiful in our area, we can’t catch any ;).

The big boys only stayed for a long weekend and then they headed back to their jobs.  The other crew was staying for almost 2 weeks, so after the big boys left, the real fun started.  There was swimming

Wheeeeee!

and

Sun bathing

for those that have to come back with a golden tan while the rest of their friends are all pale looking from lack of sun exposure.

We went miniature golfing

Mini Golf

A little fun fact…..we went to this same place with our kids back in 1999-2000.  The place was still in surprisingly good shape.

Of course there was the stop for, my personal favorite,

Ice Cream

Then while the kids went to a beach one day, Gary and I were invited to a Birthday party for a few young kids.  Recognize any of these northern people?

Carol?

Time to Open Presents

Birthday Kids

Let’s not shove the cake in his face Debbie

After we were full of Birthday cake and covered in sand, we did some more swimming

Swimming

and fishing

That’s a weird fish

of course there is always time for

Cartoons

Gary’s new kayak had to be tested out

Yup, fits two

We took the boat to downtown Fort Myers and saw one of our old girls

One of our old girls 😦

I think the new owner loves her a little more than the last one.

All the while we had our guests, you guys up north were

Minnesota

Dogs…..sit…..stay…..play

Up to your eyeballs in snow and cold.  Now ask me again……why did we move to Florida?

Yes, yes….can you believe it!  He has another one!  This one has no engine and can be folded and put away in our spare bedroom closet.  Did I peak your interest?  Well here it is

  It’s a blow up kayak!  There are two seats but no way is this girl getting in that thing.  I’ve seen too many videos of people flopping to and fro, flay their arms and then they still end up in the drink.  I have a hard enough time on dry land keeping my self upright, so no rides for me on that floating hazard

So why does Gary need another boat you may be thinking.  As you know, the boat is on a lift down here.  When the boat was in the water, every few months or so we’d pay a diver  to come out and scrape the barnacles off the bottom of the boat and change the zincs on various parts of the boat.  Now with the boat on the lift, Gary had to think of a way to change the zincs without getting all wet.  So Wahla!  We now have a kayak.

Shaft zinc

Here Gary is changing the zinc on the shaft

Now he’s replacing the one on the rudder

and let’s not forget the trim tabs.  Luckily the one on the bow thruster is still in good shape so he doesn’t need to replace that one just yet.

So this kayak is more of a utility boat but it will be great for canal cruising…..at least for Gary

Well, we finally did it, we convinced the rest of the owners in our condo association to agree to classing up this joint with some very nice landscaping pieces.  And here they are

Bears

Come on….who doesn’t love Teddy Bears?

And it turns out, everyone loves Smokey

Smokey

Do you see the resemblance?

The real Smokey

Nice job people!  See how fiscally responsible we are

I just got an Email from my brother who lives up north.  -40° at 6 AM this morning, really cold.  Then his thermometer said “LL”, whoops, does not compute. Really Really cold!

I thought I send you some pictures that might help you warm up or make you really really mad at me .  In October we went to place called Boca Grande Marina which is on the island of Gasparilla.

Boca Grande Marina

It was a pretty uppity up place.  They even had golf carts we could rent

Golf Cart Parking

for a small fee $$$.

The first day we had breakfast at this very cool looking restaurant in a hotel

Pretty Swanky

See those brown pipes on the ceiling?   Those are their fire sprinklers and they are all covered with a bamboo looking wrap so they fit in with the old decor of the restaurant.

The food was really good but a little expense.  We had 3 people waiting on us.  I think that was because we were practically the only people there and their waite staff was bored ;).

They did have this really cool coffee table in the lobby

Did they get the shells from their beach?

and their porch was beautiful

Look at that wood shine!

So after our tummys were all full, we hopped on the golf carts and decided to see the island.  One of the places we saw was Banyan Street.  I’ve seen a longer Banyan Street on the way to Stewart when we went to buy the boat, but this one was cool none the less.

one

two

three

Now a banyan tree drops it’s roots from it’s branches.  These three trees are actually all connected.  Cool huh?  Do you remember me mentioning that we have a blind woman in our boating club?  She had never seen a banyan tree so her husband is letting her “see” one

Ahhhh, so this is what they look like 😉

When we got back from that little escapade, Gary and I went into the resort bar.

Beer Taps

Isn’t that cute?  It’s a little boat stern that they put their beer taps on.  How clever!  And the beer wasn’t too bad either.

Did I tell you how swanky this marina is?  They even put a mat down by each boat

Mat to wipe our feet on before we get into the boat

Now THAT is classy!

Later that night we had our pot luck dinner on the dock.  Here is Gary having a relaxing Honey waiting for dinner to start

Happy Hour

And here is Gary’s feet when we got home

Nope, not chicken pox

The No Seeums were eating him up like no body’s business.  I only got one or two bites.  Can you tell who bathes in our family ;).

The next day we took the golf carts out for another tour of the island,

Nice Trails

this time we stopped for a brewsky.  See what I found?

Cigarette machine

Man!  I haven’t seen one of these in a coons age!  Remember when they were 45¢ and you could even get matches out of the machine.  A real blast from the past.  Of course who can afford them now a days?  Glad I quit that vice 

Later that night we went to the Pink Elephant for dinner.  So……..does anyone but me remember these?

Little Plastic Pink Elephant

It is a little plastic animal that hangs from your glass.  I remember those from when I was a kid.  I don’t remember where we got them from but I was tickled to see them again.  I snarfed up three to take home 

So the next day, before we headed home, we took another golf ride.

Captain Gary

The Captain drove the golf cart, I think I was a little too wild for his tastes…..and heart ;).  So we drove until we saw this

beach

and this

beautiful sandy beach

and this

Captain in shorts and crocks enjoying the nice sandy beach

I know….I am such a tease.  This is what you have been waiting for, pictures of the nice sunny beach to help you warm up.

I hope it helps!  So stay inside and keep warm today.  Be sure to keep your tongues off those metal pipes!

Homey hotel room

One of the pains of traveling when it’s so blazin hot is that when you stop for the night, you have to bring in everything that could melt in the super hot car.  So instead of just using our little 2 wheeler and a couple of hands, we have to use the hotels luggage carrier and practically empty the car and bring it all inside.  I suppose we could leave the cat in the van over night.  That would certainly save on the amount of items we’d have to bring in, but I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing little Smokey was sweating his fur off in the car.

So after a good nights sleep we continued our final leg of the journey home.  We loaded all our stuff back into the van the next morning and started home.  As we traveled out of Texas, we keep seeing this gas stations called Buc-ee’s and there would be their sign with a giant head of a beaver on it.  It piqued my curiosity, I just had to stop!

The next one we saw, I pulled in.  They had so many pumps, I couldn’t believe it.

Rows and rows of pumps

and a statue of the owner of the place

Mr. Buckee himself!

Don’t look too close, even though he has a hat and shirt on, he is not wearing any pants.  Cover those children’s eyes when they walk past!

After we got gas and walked in the store, I was amazed.  It was kind of a cross between a Wal-Mart and a Deli.  They had so many different items for sale.  In the center of the store, they had a place where people where cooking fresh breakfast items and then there was a bakery with fresh donuts and pastries.  Plus, plenty of souvenirs.

Nice Buckee truck

We were there for gas and a pit stop so in the pit stop area

8 Rolls of toilet paper

Yup, count em, that’s 8 rolls of toilet paper.  You could have a major blow out here and not worry about running out of that stuff 

Most impressive gas station I’ve ever seen.

After many miles we made it home in one piece.  We had a real good summer visit and it’s only about 100 days and we’ll be making that trip back up again.  In the mean time, hopefully there will be plenty of boating and exploring down here, at least when it starts to cool down some.  So in the mean time…..CHEERS 

The next day we went to go to Fredericksburg which was about 1 1/2 hours outside of San Antonio.  It was a German city and there was the home of Admiral Nimitz that we would see.  Who the heck s Admiral Nimitz?  I had no clue.  I figured he was some kind of WWII person.  I’m not into that stuff that much but Gary and his friend were “Oooooooh, Admiral Nimitz!  Cool, let’s go see that”  His wife was like me, “Ok, I’ll go along and enjoy the scenery but I am not going to read each and every sign in that guy’s house”.  How us women sacrifice to keep our men happy LOL.

Anyway, after our little drive with the wonderful scenery and good conversation, we got to Fredericksburg and saw the Admiral’s house.

Admiral’s house

At first Gary wasn’t too impressed.  He figured we were just going to be touring some old General’s house.  But it turned out this was a 6 acre, 3 museum complex.

3 parts to see

We went to the Admiral Nimitz museum first.  It was amazing!  I even enjoyed it.  It started out with some history about Nimitz.  Here was his baby chair

Dang! Looks familiar!

It almost looks like the one we used to have in our house, minus the tray.

I came upon his saddle

His saddle

Here is his crib

His crib

I must admit, we got a crib like this from Gary’s parents.  I don’t know how old it was but it came in handy when the kids were little and needed to be rocked all night.  You’d lay on the couch and had one foot on the crib rocking it back and forth.  Such good parents!

And I think this must have been his christening outfit

His baptismal outfit

or maybe not .  There was a bunch more stuff about this whole life, but I only took pictures of the interesting stuff LOL.

After we were done with that part of the museum, we meandered over to another section

Gary and his very tall new friend

Actual artillery

They had a section of war hero plaques

 Plaques

Then we went into another building.  This one had an exhibit of

Midget Submarine

This was one of the actual Japanese midget subs that attacked Pearl Harbor.  After they dragged it off the shore where it sank, they toured it around the US to encourage people to by US War Bonds.  They cut some holes in the side of the sub and put in plexiglass so people could see inside 

The amount of money they raised funded half the cost of the war.  Pretty impressive huh?Then we went around the corner, and there it was

Midget Sub

Front of sub

Rear of sub

Stats on sub

78 feet, that seems like a pretty big midget sub to me.  But I guess ours are about 560 feet long and 42 feet wide so, maybe that is a midget 

So we walked…..and walked…..and walked.  Man!  This place was HUGE!  It covered a lot of the aspects of the Pacific combat zones and it even had full size planes and boats!

Plane

Army Jeep

Australia (I think) Tank

Float Plane

Kind of a weird float plane compared to what they look like now.  Plus they had this neat cigarette holder

Sexy!

Anyone remember those from the days of yore?  Although I never saw one where the cigarette folded up like that, pretty cool.  You could maybe even put some twizzlers on it instead, for those of you that don’t smoke but have a sweet tooth.

We even got to see a Captain’s boat 

Not THE Captain’s boat, his looks like this 

Any way, back to the story.  They even had a replica of the bomb they dropped 

Plus there was a ton of other stuff and many, many plaques….of which I didn’t read too many.  I prefer a picture book about history so I don’t have to read it LOL.

Gary had read that there was supposed to be a PT boat there, some where.  So we had to continue our trek until we found it.  We finally asked someone, and found out it was in another building down the road, so off we went.  We passed this home that was being built

Build to suit

There was a sign on it that said if you bought it, they would make the inside just the way you wanted it.  Hmmmmm.  pretty good idea if you are in the market for a new home.

Finally we saw this sign 

aaaah, this must be the place.  So we walked in and saw….Ta Da!

Pt Boat

PT 309

PT Boat

And here is a little info on the engine that powers it 

Whew!  I’m glad I didn’t miss that 

So after all our walking and reading we decided to check out the town.  The main drag was a little touristy spot.  Plenty of shops and places to eat.  We HAD to go to the German Brewery, our friend was having German Beer withdrawals.  So we went to 

Established in 1994, hey, that’s not very old.  I hope it’s good beer.

They did have their own brewing vats behind the bar

Vats at the brewery

or maybe they were giant coffee urns, ya never know.  We did get some good beer AND food there.  With full tummies and having a buzz on, we drove home.  I should say the one who had water drove us home .

A fun fact of San Antonio.  They only have one major grocery store there called H.E.B.  It stands for Harry E. Butts, he is the owner.  Really!  Kind of like those book names from when we were kids, Under the Grand Stand by C. Moore Butts, Spots on the Wall by Who Flung Poo.  Haha, the good old days.

Well once we said our good byes, we headed back to the hotel.

We had a GREAT time visiting our friends and really appreciated them taking the time to be our tour guides.

Now, it’s time to head home.

The next day, we found our friends house and they were kind enough to volunteer to drive us around for a little sight-seeing.  She even took a couple of days off work to hang with us.  Apparently they have lived down here a few years but have never really done much sight-seeing (who does that?  No sight-seeing in their own home town? LOL) so they were as excited as we were to see what we could find.

The first stop was the Alamo which was right in the middle of downtown San Antonio.  Funny how the Alamo ended up right in the middle of downtown San Antonio, do you think they planned it that way?

Tomb Rider 3D

Apparently most of the down town area is just for tourists.  They had a bunch of touristy stuff like this Tomb Rider 3D in various buildings.  But we weren’t here for enjoyment, we were here to be Educated!

The Alamo!

Course there is always time for a little photo-op

Our gracious Tour Guides

After the little photo-op, we went to fill our minds with interesting facts…..

Memorial of those that died at the Alamo

This woman in period dress was giving a little speech about how the women and children helped at the fort

I almost look like a statue, don’t I?

Look!   Here’s where Davey Crockett stayed!

Accommodations

We could have gotten a room here but they didn’t allow cats.  Only if they were going in the stew pot 

We took a little walk around the grounds and saw this great climbing tree 

See the pole holding up one of the branches?

Here is info about the oak tree.

Do you think there is a difference between this “live” oak tree and the ones in Minnesota with the acorns on them?  Sure is big…and cool looking, but if you’re planning on planting this in your yard, you better make sure there is plenty of room ;).

After we looked around the outside and the garden area, the next stop was inside of the museum part of the building.  The first building looked like a church inside but I couldn’t take any pictures.  The next building had a lot of exhibits but I couldn’t use a flash so most of the pictures didn’t turn out too good.

Look at all those keys. Just think of the key chain they must of had back in the day.

Religious artifacts, probably Catholic

Of course there were plenty of guns, or should I say muskets?  Cannon balls, old maps, old uniforms, old books and this exhibit

Someone’s hair

Turns out it’s 

Now who the heck thought “Gee, I bet Davey will be famous some day, I’ll just cut a piece of his hair and keep it in this locket, just in case.”  I wonder if people are following me around and getting my hair clippings?

They had this exhibit at the end.  It had a slide bar on it so you could see the Alamo

Back in the day

and

Current day

that was kind of cool.

After we finished that education filled tour, we decided to head out to the River Walk,

River Walk

one of the biggest tourist things in San Antonio and something on my bucket list.  I prefer the “oh look, isn’t that pretty!”, rather than the “oh look, wasn’t that educational!” LOL,

On the way there (as we wandered the streets trying to figure out where to go) we passed this tall red piece of art

Friendship statue from Mexico

We had to ask someone what it meant.  It is supposed to represent two arms holding hands.  One is the US, the other is Mexico.  Mexico gave it to the US back in the day as a show of friendship.  I wonder if they are thinking about asking for their statue back hee, hee.

Then we saw this other piece of art

No bull?

I’ve never seen anyone dress up a bull before.  Good thing it’s stuffed.  I would imagine he’s be horrified if his other bull friends saw him dressed like that.

We finally found the River Walk and a place where we could get on one of the boats.  We figured we take the boat tour first and then hit the place by feet later.  The River Walk is 15 miles long and it flows through approximately 5 miles of downtown San Antonio.  Our boat tour guide the one in the blue shirt and straw hat at the back of the boat, was very talkative.

Our waterway guide

Unfortunately his English was so bad I could only pick up a few words so it was more of a looking tour than a talking one.  I think everyone had a hard time understanding him.  You could tell he was trying to make jokes but they were falling flat because we could only understand part of what he was saying and no one was laughing.  His tip jar was probably pretty empty.

So anyway, here is what I saw

Nice archway

Cool Waterfalls

Traffic lights?

This was kind of weird but the river did come to a “T” here so I suppose they had to have this light.  Good thing it was green for us.

Dual opening

Sit down in the front!

We had a bunch of people on the boat.  Kind of made it hard to take pictures :(.  A lot of heads down.  Hey!  You’re on a tour, put your phones down!

Looks like you can close this off

This looked like a “lock” where maybe you could close off this part.

Tree growing out of a wall

That’s something huh?  See, this is what happens when you don’t pull that little weed out of the crack in your driveway.

Those guys at the restaurant have kilts on.

I kinda wanted to see what kind of food they had at a restaurant where the wait people wore kilts.

CVS? Quick stop! I need to pick up my prescriptions!

I suppose….everyone needs somewhere to pick up their drugs somewhere.

Look at all those bells

Bronze cow round-up

Better duck your head

There were a lot of foot bridges that passed overhead.

Locks on fence

You’re suppose to come here with your love and put a lock on the fence and throw the key into the river to show your forever love.  But our friend pointed out, those locks always come with two keys, that way if you break up, you can always come back and get your lock LOL.

Santa….is that you?

Huh, now we know where he goes on vacation 

Wake up kid and look behind you!

Stairs to Houston Street

Buffalo

Do you think he’s stuffed?  Why isn’t he all dressed up like the bull?  I guess buffalos have more dignity.

Spooky Ooky

We had a good time on the boat ride and even though it was pretty hot, once the boat got going it was a little cooler.  When we got off the boat we decided to take a little walk on the River Walk and find us some chow.  I saw this and wondered what it was

Cooler

Apparently it sprays out a mist of water to cool the customers off when it is really hot.  I wonder if you could narrow the beam and turn it into an awesome squirt gun?

After we walked around some more and had some chow, Mexican food mind you, we went to an old brewery that they turned into a hotel

Brewery/Hotel

I think this is where they kept their horses, kind of like Budweiser.

Cool train

Good way to re-purpose

Bar area

Can you see those things on the right?  Those are the vats for the beer.  They cut a hole in the wall and turned them into cozy little rooms.

Lobby

How do you like that for a “business center”?

We went outside and checked this out

Beginning of the River Walk

All in all a fun, if not HOT day.  Another thing checked off my bucket list.

Tomorrow we are going to Fredricksburg so see some old army person’s house.  Should be a blast so tune in next time.

We arrive back at my daughters and planed to stay a few days before we headed out to San Antonio Texas to visit a high school friend of Gary’s who recently moved back here from about 18 years of life in Germany.  Both he and his wife worked for the US Armed Forces while in Germany and now just his wife worked for them.  Now that they were back in the states, we decided we’d visit them on our way home.

So while we spent our last few days visiting with the grandkids

Grandson number 1

Grandson #2

Smokey had to take one last nap

Aaaaah, so relaxing

and Gary needed a hair cut before we left.

Shave and a hair cut 6 bits

How do you think we afford to pay for our fuel?  Free hair cuts by Colleen 

Then we were on our way.  I will say it was very hot on our trip down.

Dang! I think I am going to melt!

I’m glad we had our A/C fixed before we left.  On our travels, we stopped one day at a Jack in the Box for lunch.  They had the bathrooms locked and could only be opened by the cashier.  We got our food and skedaddled out of there!

We were able to hop on this hi-way

Gotta love Texas

That’s right!  80 MPH, woohoo!  We are cookin now.  This is the fastest speed limit WE have ever seen.  Of course we cranked it up to 85.  Then…….screech! What??? 17 MPH in a 80?  Both lanes are crawling along.  We were hoping this wouldn’t go on for ever as I am sure everyone else was.  When we finally got to the problem it was some big machine traveling down the road at 17 MPH with a truck behind it with its flashers on.  Really?  You couldn’t have found a side street to take that thing on?  Man!  The nerve of some people.  Just because you pay taxes you think you can drive anywhere you want, hrumph!  At least it didn’t take us long to get around that guy and once we passed him, we kicked it back up to 85 MPH and we were on our way again.

One of the places we were going to be traveling by was Waco Texas.  Ya know….the town that “Fixer Upper” is out of.  I just had to stop at the Silo place and maybe grab a cookie or a cup cake.  They sure look good on the HGTV show.  So we took a little detour.  Now keep in mind the temperature is still at or better than the 104°.  They had a que line just like at a Disney ride to get into the bakery.  There were maybe 20 people in the line which isn’t that many if it is only 75°, but Gary and I looked at each other.  Nope. No cupcake is worth melting in the heat, so we just headed back on the highway.

And in no time at all, we finally arrived at San Antonio.