Adventure in Aggieland

Well, partially in Aggieland.  Several weekends ago, we decided we needed a break from our routine, which has gotten rather busy and kept us from having a lot of time on our own.  And instead of our usual getaway habit of heading up to Llano or Fredericksburg for the day, we opted to go in another direction.

First stop was Snow's BBQ down in Lexington.  This place is all about the experience, though I admit, the food was also more than worth the trip!  Snow's is open only on Saturdays, and you'd better go early and plan on BBQ for breakfast if you want anything good!  They told us, chicken is usually gone by 10am, and when we got there they were also just about out of ribs.  Of course, we're mostly all about the brisket and sausage when we hit a BBQ place for the first time.

From Snow's, we drove on down to College Station, completely leaving our comfort zone and heading into the land of everything maroon and white.  The way we went, Kyle Field was the highest point on the journey, announcing with authority that in case we doubted it, Aggie football rules the land (down that way, in any case!).

We have been making a point of visiting presidential libraries/museums since our honeymoon, and the George H. W. Bush Library was our destination this weekend.  Kind of an amazing thing to see, mostly because we have such clear memories of the Bush years, and we had more time to go through it than we did when we visited Bill Clinton's library in Little Rock earlier this year.

This picture is of the Camp David office replica inside the museum - note the IBM computer on the desk!!  I had trouble getting this to center, please ignore the formatting issue.

This one's of me in the "press room", pretending to scold a reporter CJ Cregg style.

A copy of a campaign flyer, from Bush's 1964 run for U.S. Senate in Texas.  Please note that there's a Spanish language version of the text on the bottom half - and this was from a REPUBLICAN campaign in '64, out of Midland, Texas!  I was impressed.

The Bush Library's portion of the Berlin Wall.  I've seen parts of the wall at three museums now (the Reagan Library and a museum in Oklahoma City were the other places).

After a really thorough visit at the museum, we headed into Bryan for some pictures of the courthouse and the historic downtown area.  Check out the Carnegie Library:

When we'd had our fill in Bryan, we decided to head home - but we stopped for some Slovacek's sausage in the tiny town of Snook!  I wish I'd gotten a picture there, but Slovacek's is not the most photoworthy location, and I was kind of exhausted by that point in the day.

I leave you with this picture of the sculpture outside the Bush Library.  It is an interpretation of the fall of the Berlin Wall, based on a dream the artist had.