Hi much beloved ones! 
Now that everyone is home from their Thanksgiving parties and a bit before we get into the really frantic Christmas times ?, I'll share the last, very scenic part of our trip with you. 
We left our brother Frank's home and headed for Austin, Texas, to visit the state capitol. Austin is easy to negotiate and we drove almost right to the capitol mall. The town is pretty and clean and it was a lovely, warm, sunshiny day. The capitol is quite impressive, with the outside all built of an appealing, light reddish granite. We strolled around the grounds and the rotunda, where there is a picture parade of past governors (including George, of course). Gary loves the architectural designs great domes have and here is the Texas star in the top of their Capitol's rotunda. He also found a great cannon! We admired and read the engravings on their monument to those states which had formed the Confederate States, and then went to spend some time in the information and history museum which is also on the capitol grounds.