Day Tripping - Luling - A little slice of nice

This Sunday we headed out to Luling.  Luling you say?  Why?  What is there to see or do.  Well my friends, there isn't much but it was calling my name.  My roadside geology books did not have anything going on this way, it pretty much starts getting flat going west but, a quick search on the web told me that oil was found here and that those oil pump things could be found everywhere.  So, if you need a reason why we went to Luling, we went to see oil pumps.  Just look at them, they are so cute!

Luling is known for their watermelon crops and they have a huge festival every year and since I am in a phase of not wanting to deal with crowds we settled for the farmers market.  We bought a jar of jelly and of course a watermelon.

The farmer told us to check to see if a watermelon is good, you have to thump it.  If it sounds hollow and vibrates, it is good.  If it is a dull thump with no vibrations, it is bad.

 We also stopped at an old mill that is right on the San Marcos river.  It is a place to enter the river and there is a free museum.  From what I gather it used to be a mill for cotton and corn.  Molly really runs through these type of things so I didn't do much reading but it was fun to wonder through the building, especially because we had the place to ourselves.  There is also this building that you can rent out and I think it would be a perfect place to have Molly's quinceanera.  You know I am planner, I should start now.



San Marcos River



We ended our trip with some BBQ.  This place was rated as one of the best to go to in Texas.  We agreed that Llano was better.  It was okay, cheaper than Llano that was for sure but not as good.

My book of questions came along and I asked Raymond - "If starting now you could have $500 a day until you next touched me, how long do you think you would avoid physical contact? "

I will start off by saying that Raymond is a toucher.  He would really have to concentrate.  His response was that he couldn't do it if it involved Molly because she doesn't understand and it is important that she have physical contact.  With me he thought if he tried real hard he could do it for 2 weeks BUT only if I knew what was going on.  He thought it would be too hard if I didn't know what was going on and didn't know how long he could go without a touching.

Pretty nice huh?