Memorial Day Weekend

The Memorial Day Weekend was mostly spent fixing my Rangie (see the entry titled Poor Jon for details) but we did have some fun on Sunday. South of central DFW is John Pool Lake, a big another giant manmade lake with trees in the middle - weirdest darn thing I have ever seen! One of the local British car clubs hosted a picnic in Loyd Park for all British vehicle owners. They served up hamburgers and beans - the usual lunchtime spread.


Note: interesting thing about people in Texas versus people from BC - the Texans have no issues about dragging their huge barbaques all over the place in order to cook real BBQ at the beach or park. I don't think I have ever seen anyone pull a propane BBQ over a half mile stretch of beach before coming here. Maybe this is why Texas is famous for their BBQ and in BC, well, we're not. Just a random thought.

The British cars that did attend were amazing - in great condition and very well restored. Problem was, there wasn't very many of them! The Mini Cooper pic is for my brother of course!


Big hit of the day was the Amphicar - an amphibious car. The owners were nice enough to take however wanted to go for a ride out on the lake for a spin around the bouys. 


Mike, Sarah and Laura from the Texas Rovers jumped at the chance - the pictures are below or click here.