Awake: 5:58am Temp 67 sleep 6+05 sunny overnight @ Galveston Island, TX.
Gary & I walk the beach for an hr of exercise. During our walk, Kathy vacuums the carpets in the living room, bedroom & closet using Grace’s vacuum cleaner with a beater bar.
Mid morning, I remove the driver’s side front hub cap; then tighten the bolts on the oil hub to stop a minute leak that recently started.
@ 12:30, the (4) of us motor downtown, casually looking for a Walgreen store that everyone has seen but nobody knows where it is. We drive all the way to 25th street on Seawall Blvd & still no Walgreen. We stop & program Lady Garmin: she guides us to nothing so we give up the hunt for now.
Then we follow up on our original plan of visiting the Moody Gardens Complex where they have a rain forest pyramid, an aquarium pyramid & a 3-D I-Max theater. When Gary & I realize what the ladies have in mind, we quickly start making guy plans…..like touring the nearby Lone Star Flight Museum that’s more to our liking. We bid the ladies a good tour of the Rain Forest & drive 1/8 mile to the flight museum.
(2) large hangars full of pristine flying WWII aircraft. The museum employs (5) full time mechanics & as many volunteers as they can get to keep these historical aircraft in flying condition. The floors were spotless….drip pans everywhere to help keep it that way. We spoke with (2) different mechanics who both took their time answering our questions. You could tell they loved what they were doing.
Another airplane enthusiast came by, introduced himself as a retired pilot & we chatted about our love for the old machines. John flew P-40’s during WWII & then went on to fly commercial airliners until retiring @ American Airlines in 1982. He’s very spry @ age 84 & today he was showing his new girlfriend his old love.
Gary & I ran out of time & did not see all there was to see; (3) hrs went too quickly. Back in the front lobby were Kathy & Grace. They had finished the rain forest tour & walked over to meet us. John was also waiting; he wanted our phone number & we exchanged e-mail addresses. In the parking lot, Grace & Kathy introduced themselves to John’s new girlfriend, Donna. Both John & Donna are widowed and have recently found each other.
Back @ the campground, G & G invite us over for wine with snacks before dinner. Grace makes Tilapia fish with leftover sweet potatoes, string beans & mixed salad.
After dinner, using Grace’s camera & memory stick, I run a slide show on our 42 inch plasma TV looking @ pictures of their touring in La Grange that we didn’t participate in. Then I show Grace the pictures I captured @ the Lone Star Flight Museum. Gary stayed in their camper to “do the dishes.”
Late evening: I look @ the Foote photos covering their European trip on our family web site.
High temp=72 Lights out: 12:15am
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