Day 83 - March 31st - Last Resort RV Park - Rockport, TX

Nothing of interest in the morning, then about 11:00AM decide to head down to the Fulton Mansion to see when we could enlist for a guided tour. We were told the tours are on the hour at 10, 11, 12, 1, 2, and 3 on Tuedays to Saturdays. We had talked to John and Brenda before we left and they had expressed interest in doing the tour as well, so called on my cell to let them know the times. Decided to meet them at 2:ooPM and do the tour together. We then had an hour or so to put in, so went to a wetland demo site. It is a .8 mile walk along a wetland with supposidly lots of birds. Well the wind was blowing and there were no birds. Ended up driving most of the route as it was just along a street. 19 points of interest. At about point 10 we discovered the old Rockport/Fulton graveyard. This proved more interesting than the demo site. Lots of real old grave sites and lots of history dating back to the early 1800's. Also lots of wild Texas flowers. Denice had a hay day. And where there is flowers there is butterflies. Now Denice needs a picture of one of these, especially one of the black ones, but they won't land, just flit here and there. She finally did get a couple of good ones, not to mention the other hundred or so that just showed another flower, and where the butterfly had been!! By then it was time to meet John and Brenda at the mansion at 2:00PM. The tour was well guided and took the whole hour for $6 a head. Lots of old original stuff in the house from the Fulton Pioneers. If interested you can get the full history by logging onto;
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/fulton_mansion/hist.phtml
Here is some photos of same:

John and Brenda on the Back steps:

Returned home and read, then had dessert. Samantha always said you should eat your dessert first, so that you are not too full of the main meal for the dessert portion. Good advise Sam! Had fruit left over from last nights "Finger Food" Supper. Then Brenda brought over Pureed Squash Soup, for the starter, then micro'ed some left over ribs, and had that and potatoe salad for the Main meal. Pretty Good for no planning ----------