TEXAS

10 April 2012: We arrived at our son Tom's home in Waco, Texas. This is the town where Thom's uncle Tom, Chief of Police of Gloucester NJ, is buried next to his Texan wife. 

Tom and Thom at Uncle Tom's grave in Waco, Texas

The grave inscription appears to be a replica of Uncle Tom's signature.

Sarah's grandmother is buried in the same cemetery.

We visited the Waco Zoo.

While we were in Waco, our other son Lee visited from Utah. He got stuck at Dallas Airport due to an AA computer glitch, so we picked him up. While in Dallas we visited the historic "grassy knoll."

On Elm Street there are two X marks on the road overlooked by the building where the shot/s were made that killed President Kennedy: one marks the "first" shot and the other marks the "fatal" shot.

Here we all are back in Waco - (back) Tom, Sheila and Thom

(front) Sarah, their nearly two year old daughter, and Lee.

Our granddaughter steals the show wherever she goes...

especially when she wears this cute dress Sheila made her for her birthday!

Lee and Thom at Waco Airport, ready for Lee to take an 

ATC familiarization flight in the cockpit, hence the shirt and tie!

Before leaving Waco, we took a trip to the Fort Worth Zoo.

This is the zoo that houses the artist elephant; her paintings raise money for the zoo.

Lots of lively animals...

and I believe they do feed them!

No livelier creature there than our granddaughter.

And no-one more intrigued by all that was around her.

The end of a long day...

fading...

and gone.