Busy fun days with the Traveling Supremes!

All 12 couples and their rigs made it to the rally on Thursday! Our great hosts, Terri and Gary and Deann and Dave have a busy few days planned for us. We started off with a fish fry on Thursday night.  Gary had caught trout, catfish and several other kinds of fish for cooking for us.  They also had hush puppy's but they added some little green things (that was a surprise), I forget I'm in Texas!  We had a good dinner and then some Phase 10 cards were played!  It was a good time!

On Friday they planned a day of LBJ touring!  They showed us a movie about his life at a visitor center and then we visited his boyhood home.  It was still cool out and a lovely morning for a walk to it!  It was quite a nice house.

From there we took off in groups for lunch.  Before going to lunch We took off with Sue and Joe for a Lavender Farm.  Unfortunately, the last few years of drought had hurt the lavender plants and the one we went to was pretty sad looking, so we went to lunch!  We found a place in Stonewall and there were lots of locals there so we tried it.  I had a great breakfast with grits!  Loved the biscuit too!  The "blue plate special" was chicken fried steak and a huge chocolate chip cookie for dessert!  Joe tried it and liked it!

After lunch we continued our LBJ tour.  After the visitor center the first stop was the school house.  It housed grades 1-12!  Next we visited the family cemetery.  Then on to the Western White House.  It was starting to heat up pretty good outside so I only have a few pictures.  No inside pictures were allowed.  The house was added on to many times over the years by Lady Bird and ended up over 8,000 square feet right on the river.  LBJ gave Luci the corvette on her 18th birthday!  Then when she got pregnant, the corvette disappeared and the Lincoln showed up!  Luci's second husband bought it back for her many years later!

The property is full of lovely trees and there is a runway for the jet to land on.

We finished the tour and headed back to the campground to get ready for another great meal!  For tonight's meal Dave had smoked turkey and we had lots and lots of sides to go with it!

We had heard from some others that the Garrison Brothers Bourbon tour was interesting so Joe, Sue, Ted and I went for it!  We went to the 10:00 a.m. tour because of the busy day ahead.  We got there and they had a little building with some outside chairs and a sign that said to help ourselves to the beer, wine and water!  They had a local bottle of wine with lips on the label!  I tasted it and decided it wasn't to my liking!

Our tour guide, Stephanie, got there a couple of minutes later and we got on the hayless hay ride back to the distillery!  We toured with two other couples that were fun!  They explained the process to us and took us through the steps.  It is funny that they name the kettles Copper Cowgirl, Fat Man and Little Boy!  We tasted the "sweet mash" which tasted like oatmeal and has the same consistency and then we tasted the "white dog", which is the bourbon before it goes in a charred oak barrel and cannot be called bourbon until it does.  It was smoother than I thought it would be!  Then we went to the tasting room for the real thing!  It tasted like bourbon and I think I'll stick to wine!  They did have chocolate bourbon balls and they were pretty yummy!

From there we met the rest of the group at the Becker Winery.  We did some wine tasting and then did the "tank tour"!  We bought a couples of bottles of wine and the group had a good time.  They had beautiful grounds outside the winery and had a musician/singer picking and singing outside on the porch!  Sue and Joe were the best couple on the floor...or grass!  The flowers held by Hessi and Olivia are artichokes!  They are really pretty!

From there a group of 8 of us went on a scenic flower drive back to Johnson City for a bite of lunch.

We missed the bluebells and the lavender, but the wildflowers are growing like crazy and are beautiful.  These are pictures I took at several different places.

Tonight's dinner was a potluck.  We had lots of turkey left over and we added many salads and desserts.  I was again very surprised when I bit into a deviled egg that was filled with some kind of pepper!  I just don't learn!

After dinner they had planned a  musician/singer for us.  Unfortunately he had died the Friday before but fortunately, the park found a group for us.  They were the WST Blue Grass Band.  It was enjoyable and several people were even dancing!

 Guess who!

Yesterday the rally ended with breakfast.  5 rigs headed out for home while 7 rigs headed west to Fredericksburg for a gathering.  We all did our own thing yesterday.  We had dinner with Dave and Deann at a Mexican restaurant in town.  The food was good and as we were leaving I realized they had a Starbucks...yummy dessert!  We ended up at the campground and the whole group sat around until 10:00 p.m. talking!

A great rally with a great group of people..."Ain't Life Grand!"