Daily Archives: October 30, 2013

October 30, 2013 Dallas, Texas Part 2

Heavy rains and some wind hit on Wednesday so we spent the day inside watching tv and listening to the weather forecasts of flooding.  Luckily the storms that passed through were not that bad even though Bill had to venture outside at one point to raise our surge protector higher off the ground because of rising water.  As Bill stepped off the RV steps onto the ground he was up to his ankles in standing water.  Once the rain stopped the water quickly drained away and the next morning we saw some minor flooding in the campground, but thankfully not as bad as it could have been!

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Thursday evening we drove into Royse City to have dinner with Cody and his wife Jeannette at a Mexican restaurant.  Cody and Bill are Boy Scout friends who met at the 2010 Jamboree.  It was great seeing them!  1-P1030122

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday we drove once again into Dallas 01-IMG_20131101_142151where we visited the Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum  02-P1030126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

where they had one of the world’s largest collections of original Norman Rockwell art.  The exhibits included the founders of scouting, uniforms past and present, the Jamboree, personal journals of past Scouts, information on the Order of the Arrow, and various Boy Scout awards including Eagle Scout.

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This is the front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters, across the street from the museum.  We found a geocache here!

This is the front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters, across the street from the museum. We found a geocache here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next we drove over to Arlington to see the Texas Rangers Ballpark and right next door was Cowboy Stadium.

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That evening we had a wonderful dinner with Raul and his wife Adela in their lovely home in nearby Grand Prairie.  Bill and Raul worked today in Boca Raton, Florida in 1998.  16-IMG_20131101_213921