Warm Weather and Deer Guts!
This morning we got up early and headed out! We were excited to get to Texas and get our driving over with. What the kids didn’t realize is that once we got into Texas, we still had about a 5 hour drive to get to where we were going! 🙂
We crossed the state line and stopped and a rest area and tourist information center, to get a better map, and to stretch!
We then drove down through Dallas, past Waco, and finally arrived at Harker Heights. It is a suburb of Killeen and is right next to Fort Hood. Harker Heights (where Jeremy and D’Neill live) seems completely out in the middle of nowhere. When you come around the hill, however, along with Killeen, it’s MUCH larger than you would think. That area is home to Fort Hood adn the III Army Corps. It is the largest active duty armored post in the US Armed Services. It covers about 340 square miles and is right between Waco and Austin. There are about 90,000 people stationed there, and when you add all the civilians as well, it’s pretty good size for where it’s located. We heard that when people go on active duty, the place becomes almost like a ghost town. When they all come back, the place is busting at the seams!
It was great to see Jeremy and D’Neill and their family. They were pretty excited to see us, although we probably came storming in like a heard of buffalo! 🙂 It was great to see how much their kids have grown! Almost right off, the kids got an eye-full! 🙂 Jeremy and his buddy had just come back from hunting and skinned and quartered the deer right in their back yard!
It was really funny to watch the kid’s faces as they cut the thing up! Ben and Zach (obviously) were extremely interested, while the girls didn’t want to have anything to do with it. 🙂 We got a great laugh over that! Welcome to Texas!
