Clayton & Pat and Pacific beach reenactment

On Thursday Clayton & Pat arrived for three nights.  After they set up and we visited we played poker until 10 pm......which we did all three nights.  Friday we took them to Fredericksburg to eat at a German restaurant, it was OK but we have never found a German restaurant that comes close to Leighthousers was in Saline.  We then went to Luckenbach fora beer and let them check it out before riding around the hill country and returning to the campground. Saturday was a day of rest and doing odds and ends here at the campground before they left Sunday morning.
Sunday the rally group went to Alamo Springs Cafe for a burger but Judy and I skipped that.  We met the group in Fredericksburg at the Pacific War Museum for a WWII reenactment of the Marines beach landing on Tarawa.  The first hour and a quarter was about history and Japaneses background then descriptions and demonstrations of many of the weapons used by the Marines and Japanese.

Father & son reenacting Japaneses soldiers.

Rifle demo.

Carbine demo.

Thompson sub machine gun demo.

BAR, British Automatic Rifle, demo.  This old guy really looked, sounded and acted the part of an old no nonsense soldier.

Machine gun team.

Shotgun for close in combat.

50 caliber machine gun

Flame thrower.

Following all the history then weapon descriptions and demos, which were very interesting, came the battle reenactment which lasted less than ten minutes with LOTS and LOTS of intense shooting, explosions and activity.  We were provided ear plugs.

Here's a view from the stands after the reenactment.

Yup, medics were there just in case.  Judy and I along with the rest of the rally folks there really enjoyed the entire program.  Next year the museum is spending $8M to remove the beachhead and replace it with the mountains of Okinawa for a new reenactment.

Karaoke

We are just sitting back relaxing with our RV friends.  After happy hour I stopped by to checkout the karaoke which was very entertaining.

Hope you had a blessed Easter

We started the day by going to a local Lutheran church.  I don't go as often  as Judy but today was a very interesting and outstanding service.  The music was very good and the pastor was outstanding.  After he welcomes everyone (church was full) he held up a notebook and filmed the entire congregation for half a minute, then said he was sending it to his mother to prove he can fill the church.  His sermon was great, I love a good sense of humor.  The final service song was Celebration, during the singing about 100 colorful balloons were being hit and batted around in the air by the congregation.

At 3 pm we had a potluck here at the campground with 24 in attendance.  It was very good too.  Stan & Connie and Bill & Sandy have arrived.  

         

Guys day out

The ladies all left at 11 am for lunch and a shopping and stuff so the guys went out too.  Lunch.....

Then we went to local festival to checkout the car show..........

It's a diesel hot rod!

I liked this one but wouldn't be able to get in or out.

Denny was checking out this 57 Chevy.

This jewel needs a little work, wonder if there's an engine under the hood?

I liked this old pickup too.

Johnson Creek RV Resort (JCRV)

Today we made the short 101 mile trip to Ingram and JCRV for the rally.  It starts on the eleventh but we like the area and want to spend more time here.  There were 6 HHs here already so we bring the early birds up to ten.

We are in the same site as last year so I know the roof top dish will get a good view of its satellite.  We are next to Steve & Susy and back up to the pecan orchard.  Patches likes it because she can lay on the sofa back and watch the deer and all the dogs that are walked back there.

Canyon Lake happy hour

Here we are during happy hour the evening before leaving Canyon Lake ....................

We had some visitors pass by...............

Canyon Lake COE park is very nice, we will remember it for future stops.

Canyon Lake, TX Corp of Engineers campground

We left again about 10 am for the 266 mile tow to meet up with Mike & Debra Parks and Don & Mary Lynn Gertz.

This is a very nice COE park, huge sites and ours backs up to Canyon Lake.  It's in the low 80s and sunny.  

And here's the view from the back window............

It's very peaceful here, the primary noise is the squacking of the birds.  The 8 of us had happy hour and visited after we were set up.