Monday, July 5, 2010

Galveston Island

We drove around thru Galveston.  I got off the car just a few times to take pictures; it was just too, too hot....   

These pictures are of Fort San Jacinto Historic Point....                          

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A lot of fishing going on here...

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There are many many people out enjoying the beach today. 

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The Tsunami Bus is cute!!

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Beautiful hotels, shops, etc....

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Man, woman and child....looking up to the Heavens!

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This airstream decided to park here and roll out the awning!

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Wonder what he is doing with the water hose out, too??!!

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This beautiful old hotel....abandoned after Ike, I think.

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The Hotel Velez is beautiful....

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The Emerald Hotel....

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On our way back to Kemah.....

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A draw bridge....

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We had a great day visiting only part of Galveston....

Still in Kemah, TX

Our WWW Rally ended and everyone left the park today. I had not had a chance to update the WWW Blog....here goes! We had a wonderful time with everyone!

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Until next time!!

A Day in Galveston

After all the WWW Members left the Marina Bay RV Park, we headed to one of the restaurants we visited with them.  T-Bone Tom's has great food so we had lunch there.

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We took his advise...."Smile!  It's going to be a great day!

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We headed to Galveston Island.....passing thru Texas City.   This is a very nice drive.

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Many many refineries on the way to Galveston...

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The Gulf is very peaceful....

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I thought these were pretty fancy, wavy highway barriers and light poles....

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Just drove 25 miles and we were in Galveston...

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An old, old cemetery but not as old as the one we saw in La Place, LA a couple of months ago.

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We just took a lot of pictures before we got to the seawall area.....  Beautiful churches.

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Then we took pictures of these beautiful homes....

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The awesome looking Bishop's Palace.....would love to tour this another day.

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the Moody Mansion is another I would like to visit....

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I thought this was a home but actually, it was a funeral home....beautiful, too.  Not interested in visiting this one!!

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A smaller home but nice, too.

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I'm sure this will be beautiful once it is completed!

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Small but cute!

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I love looking at old homes.....more to come of the beach area.....

Friday, July 2, 2010

WWW Rally in Kemah, TX

I have just created a blog for the Wamblin Webel Wousers (WWW), a group whom we just joined.   I am going to attach the link to that post since I do not feel like posting all these pictures to my blog.   Just double click the link and you can view what we have been doing with this group.   We have had a great day with them even if it has rained all day....

Have a great night.   More to come tomorrow.

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