In central Texas in the town of Schulenburg you can take a self guided car tour of painted churches. David and I went on this tour and had a fun day exploring a new place. The churches were all Catholic and extremely ornate inside. I grew up in the Catholic church but I had never been to one like any of these before. If I took my own camera that day and made pictures I have certainly misplaced them somewhere. I can’t imagine not taking a camera on trip like this one. I had to look online to find the following photos so credit goes to whoever the photographers were for these pictures. I do have a very funny story to go along with this trip that I will share with you. At one of the many churches we stopped at that day there was a nice park-like setting with benches and restrooms on the church property. I noticed someone had left behind a disposable camera sitting on one of the benches. Being the silly person that I am I decided it would be a great idea to take the remaining pictures of David and myself. These were all very silly mind you… close-ups of our teeth, pics of us tugging our ears out with our tongues stuck out, a close-up of my eye, a photo of David’s prosthetic leg, you get the idea. Nothing vulgar or anything like that, just plain old silly. Whoever left it behind had already taken about 10 or so photos and I took about another 10 leaving a few incase the owner decided to come back for their camera. We both laughed until our sides hurt just thinking about the day when they had the pictures developed only to find 2 clowns had taken a bunch of photos using their camera. I placed the camera right where I had found it and we left. All along the tour at each church was a guest book for tourists to sign. Each time we signed we saw there had been a couple of others visiting that day as well but we never did run into any other visitors on our tour. You would think after going into so many churches that day I would have been a little kinder but my silly side over ruled once again! The churches include hand-painted murals, frescoes and other historic art and as I said before were very ornate in decorations. The outsides looked like a normal church but once inside it was an entirely different feel. This was a nice little day trip.
