Waco TX

What a fabulous day!   It started in the 30's but got to 70 degrees.

We started off at the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame and Museum.   Very interesting to hear and see the history of the Rangers.   I have to say I've never seen so many guns and so many really pretty guns.  Their history was quite dramatic but ultimately the white hats have really become the good guys.   Right next door was a cemetery which was begun in the mid 1800's for the Waco elite and of course,  we had to walk around.   There were some graves from the Civil War.

Next stop was the Waco Mammoth Site where they have discovered about 26 mammoths.  This is a current dig and they are setting up a lab and an in-house paleontologist.

We pulled into Manny's On The River for a Tex Mex lunch. WOW!  Fabulous location and fabulous food!

Our third stop was a walk along the Waco Riverwalk which is just gorgeous.  The walk included walking across the Waco Pedestrian Bridge which was built in 1870. On the other side were larger than life bronze sculptures of three riders and cattle which extended for about a block.

Just one of many pretty guns at the Texas Rangers Museum

In the graveyard for the Waco elite

The Waco Mammoth dig site with mural of how they think the mammoth looked.  The estimate is that these mammoth weighed 20,000 pounds

The dig site

A section of Manny's On The River

The Waco Pedestrian bridge built in 1870

Part of the cattle drive sculpture