Livin Our Dream

Marti and Wayne's New Home on Wheels
2014.5 Elite Suites 38 RSSA with Vanity slide Custom built for them by the fine Amish Craftmen at DRV.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Houston Texas Firehouse Museum

We took another tour of the museum in Houston. This time a Firehouse with a Pole.

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Marti was a good sport and slid down the pole. I tried it but was too fast for the Camera.

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The trip thru the firehouse was cool

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This was an I-Beam form the World Trade Center on 9 - 1 1

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A Sad Day in the History of our Nation for What ???

Funeral Home Museum What ??

Yep we found a funeral home Museum in Houston. I thought what the heck are we doing here ?? We I’ll tell you that was really a great tour thru the History of Drying !!!

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This hearse was Wooden a great restored piece of history. We saw a lot of old old stuff too. Thinking about the Winter months.DSCN0466  

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I guess you had to be Drying to ride in these guys.

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They also had a tribute to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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And for the Gambler !!!

Battleship USS Texas

We took another tour of the retired Battleship. The Texas battleship is now a floating Museum Texas style. The tour was a self walking climbing tour. DSCN0432 

The USS Texas has quite a history fighting in WWI ,WWII , Korea & Vietnam. We looked at all the Guns DSCN0428

They had a cleaning crew aboard too, hey didn’t get much cleaning done.

 

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Ok that’s Marti & our fiends fellow RVers Phyllis & Jim.

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This ship being retired they won’t let us Shoot the Guns Darn !!

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Ok Your Turn Leave a Comment !!!!!      Wayne

Free Boat Ride

We went on a boat tour of the Houston Shipping Channel. The tour was great one of the people on the tour was a Barge Capt. Was got a first class tour from a Captains eye. DSCN0415 

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We asked where are the big Ships. The Captain told us the Super Tankers dock Ten miles out of port.  DSCN0409