We have been in Crystal Beach for almost three weeks, so we started getting the trailer ready to hit the road again.
I had been using the back of the trailer as my office to update my AutoCAD textbook, so we broke down my office to get it ready for the horses.
Well, we had a surprise when we looked in the feed troughs - grass was growing from the hay that had been left in there.
We cleaned it out and put in fresh hay. We considered leaving it as the horses do like to eat fresh grass, but we didn't want to risk them getting sick.
December 11 is our wedding anniversary, so Ari got me these lovely roses.
It's a bit of a splurge because they do take up space in the trailer, but it's nice.
We are spending one night in Winnie, Texas at the Falconwood Equestrian Center. No trails, this is just a layover. The horses are in box stalls - pretty roomy with lots of shavings.
There is a flock of peacocks roosting in the rafters of the barn. This is a first for me. Of course, we have been at other places where there were peacocks - like that cattle ranch in Nebraska, but I hadn't seen peacocks inside a horse barn before.
The place is affiliated with a vet clinic and there is a dog kennel right next to the barn. Ari is worried the dogs barking will keep us up, but so far it has been quiet.
We wanted to get out for a bit and we were meeting up with my friend, Mary Ellen.
So, we went to the Baytown Nature Preserve. We hiked the trails a bit.
We saw this wonderful spoonbill water fowl. I don't think I had seen one of these before and it just was marvelous.
We had to get a picture of Mary Ellen and me with the San Jacinto Monument in the background.
The San Jacinto Monument is a 567.31-foot-high column located on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, near the city of Houston. The monument is topped with a 220-ton star that commemorates the site of the Battle of San Jacinto, the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.
Out to dinner with Mary Ellen at a local Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen restaurant. Ari ordered a Tiki cocktail - very colorful.
Tomorrow we cross the state line into Louisiana.
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