{"id":34158,"date":"2017-09-29T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=34158"},"modified":"2017-09-29T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:39:59","slug":"fredericksburg-day-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=34158","title":{"rendered":"Fredericksburg Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Fredericksburg Day 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mission Accomplished. We woke up this morning and went right back to sleep. I never realized how big of a luxury sleeping in was until I had kids.<\/p>\n

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\nTook our time this morning, but finally it’s time to get out and see the War of The Pacific Museum.<\/p>\n

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\nLook at that temperature! Couldn’t have asked for better weather in early September.<\/p>\n

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\nA very short drive. Would have walked, but RL had injured her ankle a few days earlier, so we are trying to keep her walking to a minimum if possible.<\/p>\n

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\nOh look, a Taiwanese flag.<\/p>\n

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\nBeen there, done that.<\/p>\n

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\nLast emperor of China is that little baby over there.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, racism…<\/p>\n

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\nUgh. My tolerance for kids injured in wars has gone down like a million fold since having kids. Prior to kids, I never understood why journalists always reported specifically that kids were killed, but now I do. It hurts.<\/p>\n

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\nA Japanese mini sub.<\/p>\n

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\nLook at the smile on his face.<\/p>\n

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\nYellow…<\/p>\n

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\nLove ship models.<\/p>\n

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\nGas masks are so creepy.<\/p>\n

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\nAn US soldier carved this caricature of a Japanese on a coconut.<\/p>\n

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\nAlways loved how these warships also carry a seaplane onboard.<\/p>\n

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\nAhhh, war propaganda.<\/p>\n

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\nA boy’s kimono with war machines on it.<\/p>\n

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\nBack outside the museum. That was a pretty good museum, but we are not done yet. It’s only one of 3 locations of the museum. We’ll be driving down the street to the second location.<\/p>\n

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\nEven though we left our kids back with the grandparents in Austin, we brought along a dirty hand print on my car from PL. How cute, except for the fact that she didn’t listen to me when I told her not to touch the car!<\/p>\n

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\nPT boat. JFK was commanded a PT boat while he was in WWII.<\/p>\n

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\nIt was here that I decided to google how these torpedoes were fired and aimed, then got into an hour long bunny trail on the internet. Some of them shoot out from the tubes, while I believe the ones on the model above just roll off deck.<\/p>\n

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\nThere’s an reenactment auditorium over here.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of those giant airplane search lights that you always see in movies.<\/p>\n

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\nGun turrets are funny things.<\/p>\n

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\nDone with the museum, saw this on the way out. Old school cemetery.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter museum, it was a short drive back to our hotel to check out then hit the main street.<\/p>\n

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\nCool!<\/p>\n

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\nTexas has a lot of cool old courthouses, this is not one of them.<\/p>\n

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\nWhenever I see Marktplatz, it brings me back to a bustling central plaza in German cities.<\/p>\n

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\nHowever, there is nothing bustling about the Marktplatz today in Fredericksburg.<\/p>\n

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\nOf course, we pick the only restaurant in town that has a line. Fortunately, it was only about 10min long wait.<\/p>\n

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\nHead next door to look around at a shop while we wait for our table.<\/p>\n

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\nInteresting, that’s a Subaru. Super tiny car.<\/p>\n

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\nOn the phone with the grandparents to see how the kids are doing. They are fine, other than that the little one cried all night and didn’t want to sleep since she wasn’t in a familiar bed.<\/p>\n

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\nGot our table.<\/p>\n

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\nWe take vacations so we can look at photos and videos of our kids on the phone instead of looking at them in real life.<\/p>\n

\"DSC03713\"<\/a>After a very very long wait, our food finally comes out.<\/p>\n

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\nDefinitely hit the spot for me.<\/p>\n

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\nAnother Porsche spotted.<\/p>\n

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\nIf they had an accordion ornament, I would have bought one.<\/p>\n

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\nThe business end.<\/p>\n

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\nWho knew Fredericksburg was such a popular bachelorette party spot. We saw multiple groups of bachelorette parties, and it seemed like almost all of them spoke with a strong Southern twang.<\/p>\n

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\nRL and I shared a flight of beers. While nothing stood out, I still very much enjoyed my time here. I can see myself having a great drunken time here with beers, food, and friends.<\/p>\n

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\nWouldn’t be Texas if I wasn’t parked between two giant trucks. It’s early afternoon now, time to head back to Austin.<\/p>\n

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\nThat extra load in the back does not seem secure.<\/p>\n

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\nPeach farm.<\/p>\n

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\nAgain, passing by all the wineries on the way back to Austin.<\/p>\n

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\nAlmost back home. Of course, the traffic on Mopac is so bad, we had to take an alternate route home.<\/p>\n

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\nI saw that very same Alfa Romeo yesterday. I recognize it because it had a Butler University sticker on the back.<\/p>\n

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\n‘Merica! And that concludes our super short out of town trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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