Day 2 - Battleship Texas and San Jacinto

Our original plan was to visit the space center on Friday to avoid the weekend crowds and then hit the Texas on our way out of town. However, after reviewing the weather, we decided to do the outside things while it was nice and hit the inside things during the cold and potentially rainy days.

Our 1st stop of the day was at the Battleship Texas.

From the back of the ship, looking toward the San Jacinto Monument.

Photographs inside the San Jacinto monument isn't allowed and the outside pictures didn't turn out well. We did tour the museum and enjoyed looking at artifacts from the battle and from TX Independence. We did find some interesting names on the list of persons who were ordered to stay in the wounded camp instead of accompanying Sam Houston the San Jacinto - a William Boyles and a William Davis. We know our ancestor who was in TX about the time was Noah Boyles, could William have been a brother? Was William Davis the ancestor of my great-great grandfather? If my suspicions are correct, his dad's name was William. (And, for the record, the Kerr's in our direct line weren't at the Alamo. However, that doesn't mean they aren't related - just haven't found the link yet)

The afternoon activities included getting a tire iron which is the proper size and getting a new trailer tire. We had just enough time before dinner with cousins to visit the Kemah Boardwalk and see where it's at and to decide we need a house boat. The boardwalk was celebrating their military appreciation weekend and we were able to visit with some Apache helicopter pilots.

Not only did we visit, we also got to climb in and were shown how to shoot the guns. Very cool stuff. While Z was in the cockpit, I asked him if he'd rather fly these helicopters or the Blue Angels. Z didn't answer; the pilot answered for him "Blue Angels!" Love it!!!

Not everyone was able to climb in as they were shutting down for the evening and they asked for only people who couldn't come back the next day to stay around. Now off the dinner with some very cool cousins!!

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