Esther and I had such a cool day and the weather was just fine. McClucken is a great place for bird watching and we took the opportunity to see if any of our relatives were around.
We started off by visiting Quinta Mazatlan both an historic home and nature center. One of the rooms in the home had some great bird paintings. Outside we hiked around noticing how many places that these birds get fed...especially in the trees. Then we made friends with a few small tortoises.
Couldn't get fed there so we went to a Mexican restaurant called Koko's and met the owners Albert Suarez and his bro. We didn't mind how hot the food was as long as we didn't smell rubber burning.
More nature. This time is was the Butterfly Park. It was early in the afternoon and many of the butterflies were not out. However, where there are butterflies there usually are birds.
We wanted to view the Rio Grande River and found a bench to hang out at that was on the US side where you can look across the river and see Mexico. Someone must have left their beer. ha ha.
Now came the biggie on birds as we went to the World Birding Center headquarters. It was a huge park. We tried hanging on one of the feeders to see if any of the birds would make friends with us.
Our last attraction was going to Hidalgo, a city just on the US border. They were having Hidalgo Lights with a whole bunch of lights in forms of people, animals, etc. They were doing this for Christmas. We renamed this city Chicalgo.
Dinner was at a Japanese restaurant, Yoko's, of which the owner's name is Cesar Derdugo. No Japanese or Asian staff. As long as one can learn the art of making sushi! It was really good!
Sleep and breakfast at The Spanish Room for French Toast and Migas. Time to depart for NYC!
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