Here's a few of the images we took:
This is the Court House.
Anahuac United Methodist Church
City Entrance Signs
Cool light in someone's yard
This was a monument at the Knights of Columbus (we think..we didn't write it down and can't rem. for sure) Military Park
This canon was at the front of the park....I told Kristy..."Oh no...it's gonna shoot us"...so we HAD to take a pic..lol
We decided to head back towards home and get something to eat along the way. At the 563/IH-10 intersection, there is this huge fruit stand....so we stopped to grab a snack and some photos. It all looked sooo yummy & much better than we can get in the stores down here.
Here's a few images from the fruit stand:
After we finished up there we got back on I-10 and headed towards Houston. We were going to stop at the San Jacinto Mall to eat but the parking lot was pretty full and we needed to get back so we hopped back on I-10. We crossed the tall bridge at the Trinity River and when we were crossing the flat bridge there (If you haven't been in that area lately...they are working on the highway)....so picture this...2 lanes going each way...concrete barricades dividing the E/W traffic and on the outside of both sides....NOOOOOO Shoulder....well there was a mini-van was in front of me, a full size van was next to me and it was pretty much bumper to bumper traffic heading towards Houston at about 55MPH. So this complete and total MORON mini van decided to (and I quote Kristy here) "see if 3 can go into 2...and it doesn't" (later found out it wasn't the mini van driving but a s-10 pulling it). Mr. Cause and Accident & Run decided to get in the lane where the van was....The van hits his brakes to try to keep from getting creamed from the side by the mini-van....I hit my brakes cause the idiot mini-van started coming back in my lane....I glanced to the right to see how close I was to the barricade and see Kristy toss her camera in the backseat (yes...she threw it...thank goodness it didn't break) I glanced the other way since I had NO room to my right and in my driver side mirror I see a semi slam into the back of the van and start sliding towards me....(I could have literally stuck my arm out the window and touched the trailer he was soo close.)...so I hit the gas figuring maybe I could slip past the van or at least get hit by the van and not the semi...Needless to say...we were both scared to death...I just prayed that we wouldn't die. It was almost like time stood still...I know that sounds silly but it's true...we were both soo shook up neither of us thought to take a pic of the idiot that caused the accident who tapped his breaks and then kept going...So we pulled over in front of the van so other cars could get around us and I had Kristy call 911 while I went to check on the other cars. No one was hurt bad.
Oh...here's a photo we took as we were leaving the accident scene so you can see how much room we had on the road....
Let me just tell y'all what we learned...
1) I love EMS peps but their dispatcher wasn't the brightest bulb in the box...Kristy told her we weren't from here...we had no idea exactly where we were...but we were on I-10 going towards Houston and if she turned around facing away from Houston the sign said xxxx next exit and that we could see lots of barges on the other side of the highway...they then asked her ...are you at i-10 & x...kristy said...is that xxxx street? they said no.....kristy said...then no that's not where we are and then told them the street again....they asked her 3-4 diff. streets before the cops showed up and told us we could get off the phone with them.
2) I never ever ever ever want to be involved in a wreck with a semi (thankfully we made it out untouched but OMG...not fun....the guy in the van got hit so hard his seat broke and was laying down flat.
3) I never ever EVER EVER EVER EVER want to stand on I-10 that close to Houston during lunch hour times again....SOOO not fun...loud, smelly, and kinda freaky being that close to cars flying by....at least there was a concrete barricade between us and them....the ones on our side had to go really slow to squeeze between the outside barricade & the van & semi cause they were partly into the outside lane (still haven't figured out how we didn't get hit...God is my only explanation)
(Giant Concrete Cross between 288 & the port on Beltway 8)
4) the yellow bumps on the road look like a fried egg....see for yourself...not the best photo but I snapped it while I was waiting for Kristy to climb back over my seat to the passenger seat (too much traffic for her to get in/out on her side of the car)
soooo....as if that wasn't all bad enough....we are crossing the REALLY tall bridge on beltway 8 and all of a sudden the truck in front of me jumped in to the outside lane (no signal/warning) and the person next to me had to hit their brakes to keep from hitting him...so I'm sitting here thinking....oh God.....not again...and please God not on this freaking bridge....I looked about 8 car lengths up the road and there is a car parked....no lights....no brakes...nothing....just stopped.....so I hit my brakes...pray the person behind me is paying attention cause they had been catching up to us.....well we got around them and thankfully OUT of Houston with no other happenings....Stopped in Pearland and ate at Chili's before going home....
Sooo....Sound fuN????? That was our Monday....I don't think I've ever been so glad to have a day end.
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