A day in College Station

We got up and drove to College Station, TX, home of Purdue west (Texas A&M). I often refer to Purdue as Indiana A&M. By the time we arrived it was 11:00. We looked for the Wal-Mart and moved in to set up. Since it was then 11:30, we set up and prepared lunch. Earlier, I had called Immanuel to ask Suzanne to call Joe’s office and find out where they were. Pastor Edge answered instead so I gave him the request. Instead he left a note for Suzanne who called us to give us Joe’s office number. We ate and then drove to the George H. W. Bush presidential library. I called Joe’s office and learned he was there. I left a message for him to call us. We went into the library-museum and were surprised and impressed. First, it seemed like more of a railroad museum. There were at least two entire rooms devoted to rail travel in the USA, especially Texas of course. It featured photos of every president since the advent of the railroad speaking from a campaign train. It showed both Lincoln’s and Eisenhower’s funeral train. The other rooms extolled the presidency. One display was the interior of Air Force One. Another was the office at Camp David. Another featured highlights of the destruction of the Berlin Wall while another had a diorama of the Gulf War of the 1990s. We spent three hours “musing” throughout the displays. We went outside to have photos taken of the famous casting of five mustangs jumping over the Berlin Wall. At this time, Joe returned the call and told us that Bonny was in Austin. We had hoped they were both either there or in Dallas with their motor home so we could go somewhere with them. Joe will fly to Austin and drive both Bonny and himself back this weekend. We will go on to Fredericksburg and Bandera (the dude ranch capital of the world) by ourselves. We went to the Student Memorial Center where graduates who have had distinguished military carriers are honored. It was dark by now and we wanted to go to Rudy’s Barbecue for dinner. We asked directions of a student who gave us directions but was misinformed as to the correct location. As a result, we got lost. We decided to try for a Pizza Hut but could not find one near where we parked. We came to the coach and had some Campbell’s soup. We will try to go to the original Rudy’s for lunch tomorrow since it is on the way to the Hill country.