Gainesville, TX

Spending our last night of vacation and have landed at Gainsville, Texas.  Finally a decent hotel with a nice WiFi!  Today was a blast.  We found the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch and went through it.  Patrick loved feeding the animals that would come up to the car.  On the down side, our car was scratched by the biggest, baddest cow with the biggest,baddest horns ever.  It was the size of a minivan (literally).

Here's a closer view:

Patrick did great with all the animals and  even saw a buffalo close up.  He freaked when the ostrich was going to put its head inside the car though.  And then the zebra attempted to put his head in.  That was pretty much all for Patrick but he fed probably 10-15 different "deer type" animals.

After that it was off to New Braunfels where we found to New Braunfels Smokehouse.

This is the home place of a catalog that dad gets.  So we had to stop by and pick him up some stuff.  After that it was off to Oma's Haus for German food.

Great food and great ambience.  I had the knockwurst with sauerkraut and German fried potatoes.  Miranda had a speciality called the Ultimate.  It was great food!  

Last night on the road.  Tomorrow we finish the trip to Independence.

I forgot to add last night that we did have Mexican food.  Actually I should say "Mexican" food as it was Tex-Mex.  To me all Tex-Mex tastes the same but it's good.  They had a mariachi band which was neat to see.  Nellie enjoyed that.

So this will be my last "vacation" post until October!  

For all interested people, my father-in-law Paul is having surgery on his back next week.  Be sure and remember him.

See you tomorrow night in Independence!

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