Tour of Texas 2007

This Labor Day weekend our tour of Texas took us through some lovely Texas towns.

Just about every Labor Day we travel to Wichita Falls to visit Gammy. The first leg of our journey takes us to Marble Falls. We went there on friday afternoon to visit with Gran and Paw-Paw. We played in the water and had a good ol' time. We spent the night and started out early on Saturday for Wichita Falls. Our trip takes us up HWY 281. This take us thru some nice little towns like Hamilton, Texas.

Some how we always forget the big parade in Hamilton. We get stuck in traffic just outside the town square and then it hits us. NOW I REMEMBER. It is the Dove Fest parade. This year we took our normal "follow everyone else because they seem to know where they are going" detour, but they didn't know any more than we did. We ended up turning around in the front yard of someone's house near the deadend we all traveled too. Ulimately our detour did find us a nice spot to just stop and enjoy the parade. Well Christian and I got out and enjoyed the parade. Chris just felt like watching it from the car. We noticed there are several Queens in this parade, but we aren't sure what they all are Queen of. Here are the parade pictures.




Christian especially enjoyed the Dum-dum lollipops that parade floats were throwing out.


Our next stop on our tour of Texas was Old Doc's Soda Shop in Dublin Texas. Dublin Texas is home to the older Dr. Pepper bottling plant in the state, where they make their Dr. Pepper with pure cane sugar, not that yucky old high fructose corn syrup.

Here we enjoyed a nice sandwich with our Dublin Dr. Peppers. We also bought some Dublin Dr. Pepper Syrup . We hear it is some great stuff. We can't wait to try it out. Christian also has a nice new shirt telling the world he is a "Little Pepper". We bought a few things for our cousins the Thames', who are the biggest 10/2/4 Dr. Pepper fans we know. Their visit to Austin motivated us to make this stop in Dublin..thanks guys!



Then we were on to our final and most important stop of our trip...Wichita Falls. Home of Gammy and Uncle Mark !!!!!!!!!!



Here we enjoyed singing, swimmng, eating cake and ice cream, playing ball with Gammy, sharing toys with Gammy and all around hanging out with Gammy,Uncle Mark, Memaw and Dodaddy.



We had a really nice visit as usual. We can't wait to see Gammy again over Thanksgiving.