Chain Gangs and Magnolias.....

Well another day on the Fab Adventure is now almost at a close. I forgot to mention that yesterday as we drove through Louisiana we came across a fair dinkum Chain Gang. *Cue Heartfelt Blues* Neither of us has ever seen anything like that except in the movies so it was exciting enough that we both stared and talked about it for a few miles. Orange shirts and the traditional? black and grey striped pants. The Sheriff with his shotgun and the chaps all doing gardening on the side of the road!!!! How exciting is that???? Well not for the chaps working but for us it was. We traveled today from Houston to San Antonio. We initially thought we would drive to Dallas but decided it was a better idea to head upwards toward The Grand Canyon. We stopped on the way and found a Walmart (bahahahahahahahahahah) to grab a few supplies. It seems that the Battery recharger works fine but it is running at a lower voltage so after 8 hours of charging we get about 6 pictures on the camera and the bloody thing stops. So ~ plain ol batteries from Walmart and we are now good to go.
Arrived in San Antonio and checked in. I of course had Wifely Duties to do like washing while Mr Fab had the usual Mr Fab duties like laying about, sitting around and generally relaxing........

We decided to go downstairs and have a drink and met the lovely barman and also this funny chap called Benjamin Nicholas Aloy. The reason I have put his full name Fab Readers is this guy made us laugh out loud...
Mr Fab: Gidday howareya
Ben: *seriously bad aussie accent* Y'all are aussies this is my Aussie acent!!!
Us: *falling off the bar stools larfing*.
We explained to Ben that Aussie dont sound quite as ........ nasal as what the Yanks think we do....(Think the so called Aussie in Eureka)
Ben is a comedian and yep he is funny. After he said he would introduce us as his parents and I blinked he redeemed himself by asking the lovely Barman had I been carded....good job Ben ......Good save...Well done. We had dinner in the Hotel and Ben also was our waiter. Made us laugh as we ate. Nice guy folks so if you get a chance to go see him? Go!
We have been incredibly lucky this section of the trip. While the first part was full of mean and cranky nasty people trying extremely hard to part us from our hard earned money ~ this part has been full of gorgeous lovely people who are genuine in wanting to help us have a good time! Generous people who go out of their way to help. No ~ NOT just for tips but just because. Its really making this part Fabulous!!!!

For Katy Redmond ~ an entire town!!!!

Tomorrow will be a HUGE day of driving as we want to knock quite a few miles off the trip to Grand Canyon. We really want to enjoy that part and the time is starting to run down till we have to go home. We miss home and everyone and of course mostly miss Dexter The Wonder Dog!!!!!