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It's been 12 days since our last post and there's a good reason for that..um, I think there is anyway! Nothing has been going on that's reportable. Well, here it is anyway.. As you know,  Rob was taken to the hospital with aspirational pneumonia. Marjorie has been staying at the hospital for the past two weeks, sleeping in a side chair by Rob's bed for the past week.He has been getting transfusions, antibiotics, etc. He is doing much better and is being transported back to the care facility today.  He still has some congestion in one lung, but that is minor compared to what he has been through. So, for the most part, we haven't been doing very much. We have been taking mom to her doctors' appointments, helped brother Ron get his computer updated and instructed him on how to use it with his new camera, planted two rose bushes, a lime tree, and once we find a spot for it, an orange tree. But Marjorie will be home tomorrow, Saturday, so we get to spend a day or two with her before we continue on our journey.

To give us something to do, Wednesday night we went dancing in at Gruene Hall in Gruene. The band was loud, the floor small, and the dancers rude, especially some young punks who did mainly the Lindy Hop and dominated the dance floor, with little regard for dance etiquette or other dancers. We were there with friends Margaret and Erich Weese.

On Thursday Nancy and I drove to Fredericksburg, (a beautiful little town but very expensive to live in) about 60 miles away, and went to the Nimitz Museum and the National Museum of the Pacific War, among other things. Admiral Chester A. Nimitz, the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific fleet during World War II was born here in Fredericksburg in 1885, and raised by his Grandfather as his father had died before he was born. The home they lived in they opened as a hotel, which is now the Nimitz Museum.

Bronze of Admiral Chester Nimitz

All around the museums was a memorial park displaying pictures of military participants during WWII and the ships that were involved. There was also a display of U.S. Presidents from Roosevelt forward who were members of the military. The ship that George H.W. Bush took off from on the day his plane was shot down was commanded by Admiral Joseph J. Clark,  a Cherokee from Oklahoma, and the first native american graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and first native american Admiral in the navy.

Also were guns and howitzers on display to show the power of the navy and army in the Pacific. One of the ships they had equipment from was the USS Foote, one of three ships named after Civil War Admiral Andrew Hull Foote (1806-1863), who we believe to be one of Nancy's ancestors. Here are some pictures of the mast  and the Mark 15 torpedo tube from the ship.

Thursday night we joined Margaret and Erich again at The Watering Hole in New Braunfels for some more dancing. Great band, good dancers, and had a great time. Now we are waiting for Marjorie to get home Saturday.