This all-purpose park is located in Fredericksburg, Texas. In addition to the typical picnic areas, baseball fields, playgrounds, pool, and tennis courts it includes a golf course, a dancing patio(?), and an RV park. The park is in an old pecan orchard. Unfortunately, there are no pecans (or leaves) on the trees in January!
We walked the downtown, peeking in shop windows. On our way, we spotted a giant Christmas pyramid. The top layer had angels with trumpets, then there were several varieties of Santa, then wooden nutcrackers, then a choir.
The whole thing rotated; you can see the bottom layer in the video. It has Mary, Joseph, and the baby, a shepherd, and the three wise guys.
German Christmas Pyramid
At one end of the town is the Pioneer museum. It preserves 9 buildings from the 1800’s, when German immigrants settled Fredericksburg. Four buildings are original to the site, including a house, barn, smokehouse, and a second house that started life as a butcher shop. Other buildings were relocated to the site, including a one room country school, a log cabin, and a Sunday house, so called because the farmers built these for use when they came into town on Sunday for church services. This wire fence making machine was in the barn.
One important building was the bath house, used by travelers heading west. This was the last bath house on the trail until El Paso!
