Houston, TX - Jul 5 and 6 (meet Paulette)

[Birdie]

Well, I made a different journey home to Schertz than over to Houston. The distance was shorter and the traffic not quite as bad. Filled up with gas in Spring at the Valero on fm 2920 and Rhodes Rd and then again when I got to New Braunfels.

That was a short, but fun meeting of RVing women. It was indeed, a pleasure to meet up with Paulette. Was great to see Martha and Joella again. I was sorry that Vickie (she is a Flocking Flamingo RVer that I met in Schertz last November) wasn't able to come play with us. Martha makes such a lovely camping neighbor. You know she has been camping absolutely forever. She should be giving seminars on the do's and don'ts for us 'kids'. What a pro!!!

Let me tell you about the food! As you could see from the B-B-Q Pit plates there was lots of food. That was a rack of ribs that I ordered. The rack was designated as a 3 meal plate. It actually has been that and then some. Well, we added some of Paulette's LO's (left overs) too with those ribs for a throw together last night. Then I had two for lunch today and I still have one rib left. I love good ribs and those were so nice and meaty. Just a small amount of smoke, not overly smoky, and you add your own sauce. When I had mine at home I added some Gold's hot sauce, oh with the Jalapeno slices too that was rather fab!!! So passing thru Houston on I-45 near Spring get off on Rayford Crossing and go east about a mile....just before the RR tracks on the right side of the road. It was great. Ask Martha and Paulette about the Peach Cobbler. If they tell you I had Blackberry Cobbler "they lie like a dog on a rug". (I told them I say that!)

Old Town Spring, was a very interesting town. Many stores were closed as we found that the busy days are the weekends. Museum didn't open until Thursday and ran until Sunday so we missed that. Lots of neat little stores with some great items. We found some 'solar jar lids'. But there was no one to take our money. Quite a unique item. This is one of those spots that if you live in a house and like quaint, cutsie things, you would leave some money there. Now I'll tell you about eating at Wunsche Bros. in Spring. Those sauerkraut balls were very unusal, the zuchinni was marvelous, so fresh and tender tasting and the onion rings were very good (says she that doesn't eat fried onion rings). Having said that, girls I ordered the vegetable plate, blackeyed peas, corn and garden salad. Fire on my feet could not make me tell you what THEY ordered.

Loved the Spring Oaks campground. Not fancy, but had lots of really tall pine trees and was surrounded with hardwood trees and a water pit...empty now. Houston metroplex is very flat and shallow ground water level. So they have these big depressions that catch runoff from areas to keep them from 'flooding'. They are 'water catchment ponds or tanks' and I call them water pits.

I hope, Paulette, you can stand the heat and humidity until you get the replacemnt a/c. What a nice welcome to Texas she has had. Let us know when you are coming back Paulette and we will do this again. We will need to reserve our spot at the Spring Oaks campground early because they were full Tuesday night and only one opening Wednesday night.

Great womenRVers, great food, great time. Repeat many times. Thanks Paulette, Martha, Joella for being there and Vickie for the eating places recommendations.

[Paulette]

Aw, shucks ladies, it was truly my pleasure to meet up with you all! Sorry I didn't get pictures up yesterday, but I had a date to get my new AC installed and I'll be darned if I was going to miss that one! DeMontrond RV took very good care of me. RV Products replaced the unit under warranty (for the 6 day old one that quit working), so it only cost me the initial service charge to have them come to my site to check it out. Don't know what will become of the issue of the other RV place and their installation of the first unit, but the service tech that installed the new one said he will take pictures and send them off to RVP for them to do their investigation or whatever. I'm just so dang happy to have 2 working AC units again! Houston is no place to not have AC!!!

So, without further adieu, pictures...



We of course had to try "sauerkraut balls"! This is the appetizer...onion rings, fried zucchini and sauerkraut balls.



A close-up of the "ball". It was actually really good and this from someone who doesn't do sauerkraut!



Martha had the chicken salad/fruit plate for lunch...



I decided to go for a chicken salad sandwich. I could only eat half of it!



Joella decided to go with a burger. I didn't hear any complaints, so it must have been good.



Nancy went with the veggies...note the shirt!!!





A little park around the historical marker.



Historical marker, Spring, TX.



Nancy and Joella on the porch of the Museum. It wasn't open so we didn't get to have our history lesson.

It was a wonderful visit, but entirely too short! Ladies, I'm glad to hear you all made it home and look forward to meeting up again some time. And if you are ever in the NE, we'll gtg!

I extended my stay here until Monday so I can make sure this AC keeps working! It'll give the the weekend to spend with the kids before I wander on up the road.

On Edit...the ribs were fantastic, even the second time around! Really tender. The peach cobbler with a scoop of blue bell ice cream...ahhhhhh...and I won't tell you that Birdie had the blackberry cobbler cause she threatened to tell everyone I was lying so there! It was gone before I could capture a picture of it!!!

[sharon]

There goes Nancy torturing me about those ribs again! Looks like a wonderful but to short GTG!

[Acadianmom]

I'm getting hungry just looking at the pictures. Thanks for posting the pictures. Glad you have air conditioning again and hope this one lasts. It's 98 and humid here this morning and it's cloudy. If the sun was out it would be over 100.

Martha

[AlmostThere]

What a great time together! Good to see Joella, too!! Glad your AC is up and running. What a fiasco! Thanks for the great pics!

[mitch5252]

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And the good times just keep rolling...

Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.

Paulette, thank goodness you got your a/c fixed!

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