6/4/13 Tomorrow we head back to Roper Lake. It'll be nice to go back to work and rest up from our vacation. Today we went to the Queen Mine for a tour of the copper mine. It was really neat. They dress you in yellow rain slickers, hard hats, a belt and a light on a rope that attaches to your belt in back and goes around to the front of you. Our hats were not made to accept these lights like the real miner hats are but we got the general idea. We got to ride a li...

Start at bottom and read UP! Once I can get good internet access I will upload pictures. 5/20/13 So after 6 mouse traps and a roll of chewed up toilet paper, some pesticide foam to fill in the mouse hole and electronic pest repellers we have no more mice!!!! Today we went to the Discovery park. They were closed for the inside stuff so we saw the outside stuff. Ok, we saw yet ANOTHER cactus garden and a really neat sundial made out of turtles. You'll just have...

Today started off pretty cool so we decided to visit the Living Desert zoo & Gardens. We all know that if the word zoo is involved I'm In. We didn't get to see any of the hoofed animals or wolves because they were all inside but we did see a few. We saw some birds and neat rock and of course cacti. Lots of cacti. We saw Maggie the bear that paints pictures but we didn't buy a picture or see her painting. We saw a mountian Lion and a very cute bob cat....

Well we are out of Mission. After being here in Hondo for just an hour we remembered why we LOVE Escapee Parks. It's quiet, they are well taken care of. It's quiet. At Circle T we could hear the freeway traffic and there was a busy suburban street right in front of our trailer. They can't help that but here, it's quiet. I went into the rec hall to buy name tag holders, they were playing Mahjong and asked if I'd like to play. We sat outside with the birds ...

Ok, I know that I have not been keep up very well with this blog. We haven't been taking many pictures or saying anything. So I'll try to do better. We are working at the Circle T Park in Mission, TX. We are having a pretty good time. I LOVED Alabama and all the new friends that we made there but we are doing ok here too. There are citrus trees everywhere. We are eating fresh off the tree grapefruit, oranges, lemons and limes. And the birds are enjoying t...