Kathryn comes to town

In between my first and second contract we got to go home for a week. Our youngest daughter Kathryn came back to Dallas with us to visit for a week. Even though I had to work that week we squeezed in lots of things to do. First up was a trip to downtown.

Kathryn

The Hulk (David)

Me

Just some of the sites as we walked around downtown and the West End.

Cool things we saw. The two music statues we found as we walked down an alleyway in the
West End.

Jackie

We did not have time to visit the Book Depository while Kathryn was here. We did go to the grassy knoll and all the other outside stuff.  David and I had already taken the Book Depository tour on a previous visit to downtown. It is always very chilling every time we go. These two pictures of Jackie and JFK are my favorite. They are both comprised of tiny little pictures of each other.

JFK

JFK is millions of Jackie pictures and Jackie is millions of JFK pictures. You would never know unless you walked up close. We could not take pictures during the 6th floor tour, however on the 7th floor they have art exhibits and other things at times. These two pictures just happened to be there when we went. If ever in Dallas make sure you take a day to go visit the JFK stuff.











Our next fun adventure was a TRAIN RIDE! The Texas State Railroad operates a train that runs round trip between Palestine and Rusk winding through the Piney Woods of East Texas. You can choose to ride in open or closed car; we rode in the open one. Also you can order a box lunch from them or bring your own; we packed a cooler and had a picnic lunch when we arrived in Rusk.

This building was in some movie or TV show. Missed the name....sorry.

View from the rear.

 It was a cloudy day and the train was not very crowded so we got to walk from car to car all the way to the rear. Thankfully the rain held off until we got back to Palestine. The down pour came after we got off the train and were walking to our car (go fugure!). We had a great day and enjoyed the old train.

 

Blue Bonnets!

We still had one more trip planned with Kathryn before she left. Since this post is getting so long I will continue her visit on another post. So tune in.....