Lake Conroe, part 2

April 11-18, 2009

Our Favorite place to go for Mexican food. Fajita Jacks.

Read the top 10 reasons to come sit at the bar.

The Entrance into a fun time with good food.

View of our condo from the Loft , which had a bedroom and full bath upstairs and bedroon and bath downstairs.

Bob pretending to clean up on our last day.

Different birds we seen on our travels except the ducks came walking across our patio area.

The only place I could get a WiFi hit was the patio. While sitting out there I notice this building getting a new roof and the view was not bad. I checked it out every day ,one warm day the workers were shirtless..

Two miles down the road on the corner of a soon to be build Subdivision ,there is this great field of Bluebonnets. Always lots of Cars full of Families going into the field with all kinds of cameras. There was a slight hill , Flag Poles , so many photo ops..

What shocked us the most was on the Lake there was no room, every foot of land was used. In some places the roofs overlapped. FOR REAL!! And we thought houses on Lake Fenton were close together.



While looking at a house that was for sale , here comes Bambi down the drive across the street into some woods.
ONLY IN TEXAS.....We travel to the Woodlands a town built around lots of upscale shopping. There was even a channel you could take a water taxi from one store to another......What do we spy for security in the parking lot??? I would of though Segway at least but I forgot this is Texas,, A woman on a horse!!!!! This made me laugh.

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Villas on the Lake, Lake Conroe, Texas

April 11, 2009, RCI Vacation Week.

Our Condo for the week at Lake Conroe

If you bring your boat there is a spot at the pier for you, With 22,000 acres of water and 154 miles of shoreline there is plenty of exploring, especially when you get lost. {No, we did not!}Walking the Boardwalk in front of the private homes.

You can see the lake from the pool. Strolling around the grounds past Pool #2, we watch the Volleyball players.

Bob relaxes on the Patio on the "backside" of the Condo.

This drive around the lake reminds us of northern Michigan. We kept reminding ourselves that we were still in Texas. So different from the "Valley" where it is desert and Palm trees.

Easter Sunday we see a truck with Bunny Ears sticking up on the windows.

Texas State Prison at Huntsville, where the worst of the worst live on Death Row waiting their date with a needle.

Traveling to Huntsville State Prison , we spent a couple hours visiting the Museum reading information about life from both sides of the bars and looking at the items for sale made by Prisoners.

This Pistol was found under a magazine on Bonnie's lap after she was shot and killed.

Prisoners get very cleaver passing the long hours to keep the boredom low.
Some of the items on display were this monopoly game . See how "personal" they made the game.

I am not sure where the material for the ship came from but the flowers are made of toilet paper. Very delicate and beautiful. Soap and dental floss also were used in many ways.

Here is the "star" of the museum "Old Sparky" the famous Electric Chair.

There is a long explanation of how it works and what happens when someone is in the chair. You get a vivid description which make chills go down your spine. Talk about being scared straight..

Babies at the Zoo

Yes! , the Little Zebra is here. We see "it" at 5 days old. Cute as a button with brownish fuzz covering the body. Born March 23 and as of April 2 , the mother has not brought baby inside so the Keepers do not know boy or girl..They are waiting to get their hands on it to check out the health but told me it looks healthy.

It ran and jumped around, never too far from Mom.

Hey Mom, catch me if you can..

Spotted these one day old ducklings sitting in the sun waiting to jump in the water when Mom says its OK.

While watching the Giraffes the whole group took off running like something was chasing them, Even the Gazelle joined in and ran with them.

Running very fast kicking up dust they ran through this muddy area. When they would slide on the mud I was afraid they would fall.

Sometimes they would circle around and go back the other way round. This lasted over 5 minutes and one ran through the covered area and hit his neck on the pole. Everyone at the Zoo seem perplexed as to why this was happening.

Maybe a snake came out of the resaca, just some unplanned enrichment..

After things calmed down all Giraffes were thirsty.

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