Drive Across America...Day Three

The states we were in today:
Louisiana
Texas

We traveled 337 miles.  Here is the route we took:

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We listened to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe during the drive.

We had a relaxing morning at the hotel.  Since Chad was ready first, he went down and brought up some of the free breakfast to me and Rose.
We traveled to Shreveport, LA where we visited The American Rose Gardens.

Online it stated their season was May to October.  Once there they said it is April and May and they didn't charge us the entrance fee, since most of the roses were not in bloom.  How nice!  We like free!

We were the only peolpe there other than a few friendly workers. 

We enjoyed walking around the gardens...

This is in the 'Prayer Garden', my favorite garden there.

Rose had fun navigating with the map

Even though we didn't get to see a lot of roses in bloom, we still enjoyed the gardens very much.  It was beautiful and peaceful.

Then on to Texas....

We were able to stop and visit one of my childhood friends, Shawna (Laws) Hornsby.  We were driving right pass her town, so we met up for lunch.  What fun!  She guided us to a local Texas Bar-b-q joint.  It was delicious.
It was neat seeing her.  We figured that we probably hadn't seen each other since high school graduation, 20 years ago! 
When we were kids she lived a few houses down from me.  We remembered rollarskating in my basement and playing LP records.  oh my.  It was neat meeting her two children and visiting for a bit.

Me and Shawna

Shawna told us about a place we could get some yummy snow-balls for dessert on our way back to the interstate...so of course we had to try it!  Very sweet, but very good.

Driving through Dallas we noticed how lovely the wall murals and road pillars were.  They were colored and had the Texas star and some stripes on each one.

Rose doing her cross stitching as we were traveling through some Dallas traffic

Again we did Priceline.  We stayed at the 4 star Hyatt Regency...

The cushions may or may not have been used as swords.

We opted for a lighter supper...I enjoyed this spring salad

Rose and I hit the pool while Chad was grading his students online tests.

Then it hit me...oh my, I had a Crohn's pain attack from something in my salad.  (I may have cried off and on from the pain)  ...But thankfully I am all better now.   I do know of some foods that I can not eat: cucumbers, cashews, broccolli, anything scampi, lots of iceburg lettuce.....but there is more that I have not pinpointed yet.  Was it the seasame seeds?  the walnuts?  I don't know. 
But that is why today's post is a later.  I could not work on it last night.

Overall it was a great day.  We are enjoying the trip.  The drive is not overwhelming, actually it is quite enjoyable!