The Museum of South Texas HIstory

I have been having some difficulty with the blog lately-it will not download pictures- so I am quite behind on my blogging. Anna has figured out a way that we can download through windows writer and then it transfers over so I will do it this way until the blog problem is resolved. The pictures do not come out as clear but I figure it is better than nothing.
Last thursday Anna and I went to Edinburg to visit the Museum of  South Texas History. It is housed in a beautiful building and is very impressive both inside and out.
 


There are two floors to the museum. The top floor is relegated to the history of the area. At the entrance to the displays on the top floor there stands a  huge mammoth. 

I had Anna take a picture of me with it so you could better understand the size of it.

The museum had  many displays and boards to read, and even short films to watch;  beginning with the history of the Indians that first lived on this land, and then how the land changed hands many times through many wars. After going through this museum, one  can easily understand the animosity that once existed between Mexico, Spain and  Texas.
Here are just a few pictures of what was on display.








At places throughout the museum there are boxes of clothing from the same time period as the displays. Anna and I tried some of the clothes  on and took some pictures of each other.

The bottom floor of the museum mostly  covers the history of the area during the two world wars and there are many displays there as well.

In the main lobby there was another box of old cowboy clothes so I  got to dress up like a real old-time cowboy from the Wild West.



After we left the museum we went to Alejandro’s which was a Mexican restaurant right next door and enjoyed a delicious Mexican buffet. It only cost $8.99 and there was a huge variety of everything. I am slowly learning what all the different Mexican food is called. I fear that when I return home everything is going to taste very bland.

The weather here has finally started to warm up after over a week of very chilly weather. Even this morning it was the same temperature here as it was in Vancouver.  However, we are supposed to get up to 22 C today so that will put smiles all around the park.

Keep warm.