Galveston

What a difference a day makes! The heavy rain that lasted most of the day on Monday settled in to a cold night. Everything in our trailer was damp this morning, but we were at least warm. Our little heater worked like a trooper! Today (Tuesday) has been sunny and fresh, like a beautiful spring day!!
We spent the morning just relaxing, and visiting with the other folks in the park. Most of them are long term residents and every one of them has a story. One lady in a wheelchair totally reminds me of Cindy, our neighbour when we lived in Mission Texas 20 years ago. She looks like Cindy, but even has the same accent and quirky personality!
This afternoon we went on an adventure to "discover" Galveston Island which is about 20 miles from here, right on the Gulf coast. We saw SO many huge oil storage tanks, pipelines, and I think refineries in that half hour drive.... Tried to walk along the waterfront and check out the Pleasure Pier (amusement park) but, despite the 17 C temp., with wind off the water, it felt frigid.  So, after that, we toured Galveston mostly by car.   There is a historic district with beautiful old houses and churches which have been there over 100 years.  From there we found the waterfront with ships of all sizes, seafood vendors, restaurants - you can even see what we think are oil rigs offshore.
By this time we are cold and thirsty so we stopped at a seafood restaurant next to the pier, "Eat at Joe's". We had to explain what we meant by hot tea, and Karl checked out some of their shrimp, just to be social.....
Well, next door to the restaurant there was an honest to goodness deep sea oil drilling rig converted into a museum. We spent almost 2 hours checking it out - wow!!! They explained the whole process and we got to see/touch a lot of the equipment they would have used, even the ROV they use to explore the ocean floor.
This evening (Tuesday) poor Max got to sit home in the trailer while we finally made it over to Cracker Barrel -absolutely one of my favourite restaurants and well worth the wait!!
Tonight will be chilly for us, about 8 C, but then I hear that y'all in Ontario have had snow again.....