Sauers' on Mission

First of all, my apologies. I actually blogged twice after new years, but our website server was going through some updates and my entries never got posted.

SO, i will try to bring you up to speed with what has happened in the last month, and it was a very busy month.

After New Years, we travelled to Tucson AZ and enjoyed our stay their. The people at our campsite were friendly, almost too friendly (it was kinda creepy). There were plenty of children so Matthew and Abby were always playing outside.

While we were in Tucson, we visited

1.Colossal Caves, a cave system that was used by train robbers to hide their loot;

2.The childrens museum, which was basically a house filled with lots of toys;

3.Titan Missle Museum, the only remaining underground missle silo remaining from the cold war

4.Pima air and space museum, Air force one, wright brothers replica, you name it, they have it

5. Old Tucson, Hollywood in the desert

After Tucson we travelled to El Paso. We drove straight through New Mexico because Tina has an unnatural fear of aliens and all the talk and jokes about area 51 and Roswel freaked her out. that day was a long drive.

In El Paso, we were only planning to stay for a couple of days, but we found out that they were taping an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition so we spent three days watching that. We got lots of pictures and even a few autographes. We didn't get to see Ty though. We were going to take the trolley into Mexico, but we found out that El Paso Tourism had shut down the trolley because of the escalating violence in Juarez. Apparently, according to El Paso tourism, innocent bystanders have been killed in Juarez. But we did travel to Old Mexico located in downtown El Paso.

After El Paso, we drove to Fort Stockton, a town in the middle of nowhere. It was there that we noticed a screw in our tire. So we took the trailer to the tire shop and got that fixed. The campsite was out in the country. You could see the traffic from the campground, but you couldn't hear it. The night sky was awesome here.  The stars are incredible in Texas.

Next, we stayed in The Caverns of Sonora, a private campground also in the middle of nowhere. There is a cave here that, unlike Colossal, is still alive and the stalagmites and stalactites are still growing. The colors here were something else. It was here that we met Brian. He was our tour guide for the caves. Apparently our children impressed him and he bent over backwards to help them in any way. He even came out to say good bye to us when we left.

It was also here where we saw the armadillos. These critters are unlike anything we have ever seen before.

Onward to our next stop. We stayed in Bourne TX, just outside San Antonio. We only stopped for a few days, just long enough to visit the ALAMO, and learn about the battle that took place there. It was fascinating. Did you know that David Crockett died at the Alamo?

We didn't get to go to church in Tucson, but we did find one on El Paso. It was different to say the least. It was very large; easily sitting about 3500  in the sanctuary. But it was different, so we wanted to make sure we got to church in Boerne. We found a Southern Baptist Church there, which was also big (about 500 in worship) but we were late, so we had to sit up front, and we were practically sitting on top of each other.

After Boerne, we travelled to Houston and stayed for a couple of days in a campsite that scared the liver out of us. we left that place as soon as we could and travelled to another spot which was along the San Jacinto River. A gentleman told us that the river once caught on fire, which didn't surprise me. It was surrounded by factories and refineries.

In Houston we visited

1.Johnston Space Center... that's NASA for the rest of us, Mission Control, Apollo 17, moon rocks, space capsules, you name it... it was there.

2.San Jacinto Monument, where the battle took place that gave Texas her freedom from Mexico, In Texas, you go big or you go home... and this monument was BIG

3.Battleship Texas, which was involved in WWI and WWII. You can travel almost every inch of this amazing ship.

We found a church cloee by our campsite and decided to go. This time we went to Sunday School. The people here were so friendly. After the service I went to the Pastor and shared a few encouraging words with him. A family from the church invited us to a not so super bowl party where we played games. It was nice to play with grown ups.

With Houston behind us, that takes us to where we are now. We are sitting along the Mississippi River in a RV park beside the Poche Plantation. We visited several plantations, an old church that was started in the 1700's a graveyard, which had a few graves that date back to the 1300's. There are lots of crypts and above ground graves, which is kinda freaky, and alot of them are so old that they are falling apart. The Grave keeper told us that if you look close enough, you can see bones through the holes. I didn't look close enough. Christopher Columbus' Nephew was buried here. We plan are visiting Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and trying some authentic cajun creole cuisine. 

Until next time.

Sauers Family