3/12/2011

March 8 – 12, 2011 Our Time in Livingston, Texas

We had a nice time here at the Rainbow’s End Park in Livingston.

Some of the highlights:

  • CARE (Continuing Assistance for Retired Escapes) Facility tour.   What an amazing place and it is nice to know this is here for Andy or I if we ever need it.  Here is a link that explains it better than I can:

http://escapeescare.org/

 

  • Escape Facility Tour – very interesting to hear some of the history of this great place and club.

This is the Club House – the original building built in 1985:

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This is right across the street from the Club House – it is now the main administrative building:

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And also houses the Mail Service:

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The automated sorter is in the above picture.  

Then we had a trolley ride around the park – with our tour guides pointing out different areas:

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We stopped by Kay and Joe Peterson’s (Founders of Escapees):

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Where we toured Kay’s Garden:

 

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And had the great pleasure of meeting Kay – what a great person.

 

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  • We also took a nice road trip to the Lake Livingston Dam:

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  • And Activities, oh my!

- I took a Dichroic Glass Class and made this – WOW!

 

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I could get into making ALL KINDS of things like this.   Hmmmm, may need to get a job just to afford a kiln.

 

- We took part in the luncheon and the dinner – it was great not to cook – :-))), and of course the Social Hours.   We continue to meet some really great people..

And spring is here – lots of trees blooming.

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We will be leaving here tomorrow and heading east to Louisiana so stay tuned.

 

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