We decided to stay at the Riverview RV park. It's close to downtown where most of the things to see are located. Decent park, seems to be about half permanent sites and half transient. We had a level concrete pad for the Montana and gravel for everything else.
So Monday, 4/11, we went to the Texas Ranger Museum. It was interesting. The film they show is a composite of some professional history channel type shows on the Texas Ranger history. I enjoyed it. A big collection of guns. Most of them are the actual firearms used by the ranger who is being honored in each display. We spent about 1.5 hours there.
We were on our way to the Dr. Pepper Museum when we saw an In-N-Out burger, so we had to stop and get lunch first. This was Martha's first In-N-Out, but I've had them in Candler, AZ when I worked at Intel and travel there occasionally.
Then on to the Dr. Pepper museum. It's in an old bottling plant and is probably more interesting to they real fans of the soft drink. Lots of collectable, old bottles, signs, drink machines, bottling lines, capping machines, bottle washing machines, etc. worth the stop and the price was cheap. The best part is they had an old soda fountain and did hand made Dr. Pepper ice cream floats using syrup, carbonated water separately.
Next we wanted to find the Waco suspension bridge down by their river walk. Found it and took some pictures. It's a nice pedestrian bridge to cross the Brazos River. Originally the first toll bridge on the river in the 1800's.
Next we went to a place I knew nothing about but Martha was dying to go. It's Chip and Joanna's Magnolia. They are on HDTV's Fixer Upper show. It's an old grain silo and factory, that they fixed up and turned into a store that sells very expensive decorating stuff.
Tomorrow, we are going to the Waco Mammoth Site and see some 68,000 mammoths being excavated.
Now we're going to have to go back, I didn't know about Magnolia's.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. I didn't know about Magnolia's
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