Off Day in Navasoto

A group of us took off for College Station and visited Texas A&M today. The campus is huge and really nice and I guess it was lunch time cuz there were hundreds of students everywhere and then when we left - they were all in class. here's a pic of us in the quad where the old campus actually stood...all the buildings look like they have been replaced.
A student stopped and asked if we wanted her to take our pics and so she had 4 or 5 cameras she was working from - just a real nice gal.

We also visited the Bonfire Memorial at the campus. Remember the bonfire that killed 12 people and injured 27 back in 1999. The memorial is so large and takes up a lot of property so I couldn't take a picture. It's beautiful and quite somber. Of the 12 that died they have a column with a pic of the person and notes about or from each one... I had a hard time with this one young man who had sent his mother a very simple note...

We then went to the Bush Library on the campus. It's pretty cool and really interesting. We couldn't be there without visiting the library.

There is a statue of horses leaping over a piece of the berlin wall it's a great interpretation with the horses representing freedom. Pretty Awesome!! Behind the building is a lake with Barbara Bush's rose garden...really pretty!! check them both out....

I hope you enjoyed the pics... it was a fun day with a lunch stop at the firemen's subway shop for a tuna fish sandwich....and now we're all lazing around the Pampered Zone watching the single engine planes landing and taking off. I guessI didn't tell you that our campsite is on the side of the landing strip at the small airport.. You just never know where your campsite is going to be each night....it's all in the adventure.

On another note one of the things I've noticed throughout Texas is how proud these Texans are... there is the star on their homes, mailboxes, gates, cars and anything they can stick the star on. The Texas flag is flown more than the American flag... too much......