The Adventures of Sunsette -- Texas y'all! -- memories (Apr. 18)

[Alliecat]

"Hi!

"Nope, we're not in Texas again.  Sadly, Mum just turned down a three-peat sit for those lovely folks and wonderful kitty, because aside from da moneyz for all the plane tickets and car rental, she says she's done going over the border for a bit.  We'd like to have gone.

"But anyway, we have this penchant for not getting around to posting all the photos from our trips, (ahem, Mum) but here we are at last with a little catching up on the February trip, with a few more!  A little backtracking and we'll try not to repeat (much)."


"On our way south out of the cold.  This is the Maine coast."



"And there's New York City.  Somehow we ex-pected the collection of big buildings to be more widespread.  It looks small from up here."



"With cold weather forecast, we figured we better hustle and go to the Dallas Arboretum right away, instead of taking a day to rest.  It's such a great place."



"There are lots of water features."



"This pool is so neat, and we imagined what a fantabulous pool party a huge crowd of our full-size sisters could throw in it!  It's the perfect depth."



"We were happy to meet Amelia again.  We love this statue of her."



"We went to an orchid show.  It was small, but it was cool to see some different varieties."



"Mum loved this sunken garden."



"I mean, willya LOOK at this.  It's the middle of freakin February, and here are all these people lying around on the lawns like it's the middle of summer.  It really was a summery day.  In the middle of February.
"Yes, we are deprived living in the frozen north."



"The water walls were really cool too.  We'd love to have a garden with something like that in it."



"We should've had our pictures taken with these guys, but at this point it was nearly closing time and Mum was kind of hurrying to see a few last areas of the grounds before we got kicked out."



"Then we went to Dinosaur Valley State Park, which we posted more photos of in February."



"Outside the gift shop.  We think the better strategy here would've been to befriend the dinosaur and overwhelm it with cuteness.  We could've done that.  (Mum says she wants one of these for the hypothetical new garden at the hypothetical new house.)"



"The river walk was nice.  You couldn't see most of the dino tracks very well.  If you go back a page or so, you can see the photos we posted of those."






"And then we did a rather long hike up to a lookout point, which was quiet and un-peopley, and really nice.  Look at all that space."

"Mum promised to sort the rest too, so, more to come!  Thanks for reading."

"Love, Sunsette   "