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<\/a><\/p>\nThen we say outside in the sunshine. \u00a0The Port Isabel Park had a Thanksgiving Pot Luck that began at 12:30. \u00a0The very nice people at the campground were very kind and insisted we go to the Thanksgiving potluck. \u00a0We hadn’t made anything so we didn’t want to go but they kindly insisted so we went and it was very nice. \u00a0Also the food later at the Golden Corral was pretty bad. \u00a0We met many nice people in Port Isabel, hope they stay in touch<\/p>\n
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We hitched up the camper and drove 20 miles to the Brownsville Golden Corral. \u00a0It was hot & sunny.<\/p>\n
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Being Black Friday, we naturally chose a gigantic shopping mall<\/p>\n parking lot to spend the night. \u00a0We drove all the way to Corpus Christie and parked in a huge complex of stores. \u00a0Jack and Ryan went Black Friday window shopping. \u00a0The next day, we drove leisurely along the Texas Gulf coast through Galveston. \u00a0The camper and van had to be ferried across the bay (we did this on the last trip, too). \u00a0The ferry ride was great — there were dolphins!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We decided that we needed to leave on Thanksgiving Day to make it 420 miles to Eunice by Saturday. \u00a0We reached a\u00a0consensus\u00a0and decided to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the Golden Corral. \u00a0They did not open until 4pm. \u00a0So we picked some grapefruit – Sylvia was most impressed with this project. Then we say outside in… Continue reading Thanksgiving Part II<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,165,157],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","tag-ferry","tag-galveston","tag-texas","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The Golden Corral was crowded. \u00a0The kids however loved the idea. \u00a0 They had Blue Bell handscooped ice cream and tons of gummy bears and best of all, a cotton candy machine. \u00a0We tried to stay until they closed at 8pm but we just. couldn’t. do it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>