Patsy & Garland's Most Excellent Adventure

It Was A Two Museum Day!

Garland and I had a delightful Sunday afternoon visiting two interesting places. First, we stopped at UTPA to see "Sue", the Tyrannosaurus Rex casting from an actual dinosaur skeleton now housed at the Chicago Field Museum.

It was found on a Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota so I suppose that it is how it got its name.

I call it "Big Sue" for obvious reasons.

It is a free exhibit, and it was fun watching the families (especially the little kids) enjoy it.

Even though it was Sunday afternoon, there were no lines and it was not overly crowded. It will be on display at the Visitors Center until Jan.4, 2009. For info on times and days, go to http://www.utpa.com/.

Then we visited the Museum of South Texas History in downtown Edinburg. We hadn't been there for two years, and we were surprised at how much had been added.

If you start at the beginning (which for some reason, we didn't), you can browse through the rich history of the Rio Grande Valley starting with dinosaurs and ending about 1950.

I really enjoyed the video on the steamship era, 1850-1900 when steamships sailed all the way up to Rio Grande City and Roma. Imagine! Be sure to go through both buildings upstairs and down. We spent a pleasant afternoon in this little jewel of a museum--we won't wait two years to return. For more info, visit http://www.mosthistory.org/.

After absorbing all this history and culture of this unique South Texas area, we had built up quite an appetitie, so we celebrated by eating at Luby's (another Texas treasure started in San Antonio in 1948. See http://www.lubys.com/ )

Patsy