July 3rd

Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa Ace! Also, Bridget wants you all to know that on the same day they were married, July 3rd 1937, Amelia Earhart's plane went down over the Pacific. Interesting tidbit :))

The Star Party last night was fun! The clouds went in and out but we were still able to get amazing views of Saturn, Vega, various nebulous clusters, M-13, whirlpool galaxies and other deep sky objects. We were looking at stars anywhere from 349 light years to 25,000 light years away through telescopes set up around the grounds. There were indoor astronomy programs as well. You basically bounce around from activity to activity at your leisure from 9:45 pm until 1:00am. Bridget pooped out at midnight which was fine. Mark and I had been up since sunrise so we were ready too.

This morning we slept in and cooked pancakes and bacon on the outdoor stove. I cut up a yummy fresh pineapple to go with it.  It is a very comfortable 75 degrees here in the West Texas mountains. There are several zone-tailed hawks flying around that have been fun to watch. After the mockingbirds, thrashers and brewer's blackbirds from our last camp site, they are a

welcome site :)

Bridget has made friends with a couple of girls in the neighboring campsite. Pretty soon we're going to head to Fort Davis for some 4th of July programs they have going on:)

We saw a wild hog!!! I added this pic after we posted the blog so I hope most of you still see it! I was playing backgammon with mommy and we were about to have a tie breaker and then mama screamed because she saw the hog and we had all wanted to see a wild hog! Yahoo!!! It was amazing and kind of scary that daddy didn't see it first because when it came out of the woods, the wild hog was standing right in front of him;) My new friends that were in the first picture of this blog, Mia and Katy, said that a few days before we got here, the saw a wild hog too! Our other camping neighbors said that while this hog that you see in the picture was over near us, three baby hogs were over near their camper! How cool is that?!! I'd say, " VERY!!! " cool :))