Have a Boudin (pronounced boo dan)! So many signs along the highway advertising these deep fried sausage balls. “The best in the world!” They were pretty good – but too spicy for Lorree’s taste. Another surprise to us was while traveling into Mississippi we saw many sugar cane fields!
We stayed two nights at Roosevelt State Park, MS. Just enjoyed the down time – didn’t explore or go anywhere. It was so quite and peaceful (maybe only two other campers a distance away).
This place reminded us so much of Turquoise Lake in Colorado. It was the pines and leaves and lake setting. So much that God has made beautiful for us to relax, sit back and enjoy – Thank you ELOHIM. our Creator!
We’re in Louisiana! A bit different here – swamps, cotton fields, and wildlife everywhere. We were greeted by raccoons when we checked into the State Park – so cool! Lake Fausee is pretty much a nature preserve of sorts – check out the alligators below!
Our campsite was nestled in the trees along a water way. Small boats would cruise by real slow headed to the open waters of the nearby lake. We even had a fishing dock at our site – but look what the sign said – YIKES!
We got on our bikes and rode the trails and the bridges across the swampy areas. There were lots of rough spots with roots and rocks and various hills. We had fun but had to walk our bikes in some areas (and we were feel’n the bumps on our backside – uncomfortable to say the least! 🙂 Dennis had to try out the Tarzan vines hanging from the trees!
We had no data service at our campsite, but found “one bar” on this bridge so Lorree could work her JP business. The water way under the bridge was covered with live water plants floating on top – looks like a meadow but it’s water …with alligators!!
Yep – there ARE alligators in the swamp waters! And also big turtles! The alligators and the turtles would get on a log and have a staring contest – we never saw who won :)! The turtles would also climb up on a single log and line up we suppose to get warmed by the sun. So fun to see these critters in their natural place.
This is sooo funny! The camp host was a single guy who rode by on his Gator several times a day. One evening Dennis was cooking up some steaks. The host stopped by on the road and asked Dennis a question. Dennis went over to him to hear what he said. “I was just ask’n if ya’ll are cooking up some squirrel for supper?” He was serious! Dennis didn’t know what to say … 🙂
Surprise! They had a splash pond in the middle of the campground. Since there were so many signs about not swimming in the waters we guess they had to do something for the kids. Pretty smart!
This was a real nice State Park except for having no data service, fresh out of squirrel, and we couldn’t go swimming!
We followed the sun to the beach – (the forecast north of us was cold and rain)! We stayed at a very nice camp-spot with full hookups – Paula’s Vineyard RV Park. This is on Goat Island – just across the water from Galveston, TX.
We rode the ferry over to Galveston. It’s always fun to see all of the activity going on in these port cities. We remembered riding this ferry when we visited Galveston a few years ago coming from the other direction.
We wanted to visit this museum last time we were here but ran out of time. We were curious about the oil drilling platforms and how they worked – it was very informative! We learned a lot about the use of oil and how it plays such a major part in all of our lives!
We walked down the pier and saw this tall ship – look close there are people way up on top of the masts – re-rigging the lines. We stayed and watched – so scary!
After this we enjoyed lunch at a local sea food restaurant – fresh “caught that day”. Dennis had a Grouper Po-boy and Lorree enjoyed fish tacos!.
We ended our day driving down the beach of Galveston reminiscing about our previous visit – great memories!
We joined the Sower Ministry before we left Colorado. Its a 3-week commitment at each location. This is our first time to just park and live in our home without traveling anywhere. The Camp was about 20 minutes from town and hosts churches and other Christian organizations. It is a beautiful campus with lots of facilities and activities – Wow, everywhere we looked was another lodge, house, building, chapel, or outdoor activity center! Very Christ centered – we were delighted to work here!
We started work on Monday it was “Demo Day”!
In one of the lodge buildings they were refurbishing each room one at a time. After showing us what the finished new rooms looked like, they turned us loose to demo the next room. They wanted it gutted down to the studs – everything had to go!
The ladies were given the job of laundry… Riverbend has 162 “”pillows” so the bedding and towels never ended! Because Lorree and Jacquie stayed and did laundry everyday, the couple that normally did laundry was able to go on a much needed vacation. Being a servant allows others to be blessed!
Dennis and Evan went to work on tiling a couple rooms, installing doors, trim, and painting. What a transformation from the old to the new. We figured it out that we were on our knees for 7 of 12 days! Thankful for knee pads!
We even took time on weekends fore some fun! This is Fossil Rim Wildlife Center just outside of Glen Rose, TX. We had a great safari expedition, was able to feed the animals as they approached the safari jeep. It was a great day!
We made an overnight trip to Dallas to see friends Bruce and Marsha. They took us out to a great TX Barbecue place, we played cards, talked and had a great time! We also went to our first Buc-ees gas/convenience store – so large they could service 100 cars at a time!
We had a great time making friends with Evan and Jacquie, eating together and playing cards. We also met up with another SOWER couple that lives in the area, Evan and Popsie -we went out to eat and enjoyed great fellowship! We hope to meet up with these special people again at another assignment some day.
