After it warmed up this morning we headed to Port Arthur which used to be a major seaport. Not any more. There was nothing there. Hurricanes Rita and Ike devastated this city and nothing was built back. It has been cleaned up but there are no businesses there. The streets are wide, clean and empty. It was really depressing to see. The refineries appear to at least be partially working. The seaport and its ships are not visible from any place we could find. We could see the tops of huge shrimp boats over the top of the sea wall, but no way to get above that sea wall. It was just so sad and not at all what we expected. We did find an interesting Buddist Temple that was decorated with Christmas decorations. That seemed a bit off kilter to us, but then what do we know? Two of the statues had pomegranate trees growing by them. The pomegranates as well as the trees were about the size of our little beauty. However some of theirs appeared to have been frozen already. Ours is pampered.
We don't know who she is or what she represents. The flowers were very pretty.
A statue to the Vietnamese Martyrs. They are all holding crosses. We certainly
do not know the story behind this one and there was no one to ask. Very curious.
On the way back we stopped and had a late lunch at Rancho Grande. It was just excellent! To all of our On The Border buddies: I wish we could all eat here one day. It was so very good. The service was just as top notch. We were extremely pleased we lucked into this one. Another cold night is on tap. It was awful last night but warmed up nicely today. This was another interesting day.
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