A Stockyard Story

Hello friends!So, every night A wants me to tell him some kind of story. Usually, it's a story about what we have done that day. Sometimes fun things that we have done in the past (like Disney World, etc.). And all I do is tell him what we saw and did during our outing...so I'm gonna tell you this story like I would him.First we went to Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Restaurant ( I wouldn't tell him that, but this is to help you out too;) It was SUPER good! It's been there since 1935 and has beautiful fountains and a HUGE courtyard. The whole restaurant seats 1400 people!We then headed over to Billy Bob's (The World's Largest Honkey Tonk...I wouldn't tell him that either) although, I did tell him we were going " jooking"haha...I'm sure he'll mention it to his teachers at church. ;) Lovely....

I know I've posted on Billy Bob's before, but we just think it's a neat place. And yes, it still reminds me of "Urban Cowboy".They even had balloons out cause it was New Years Eve. And no, we didn't have our toddler out at Billy Bob's on New Years Eve night...it was during the day. Ha!After Anderson decided not to dance anymore, in fact he told me "Momma, I not do the balloon dance anymore" we left and walked over to the stockyards.

They actually have real live rodeos on Friday and Saturday nights in Ft. Worth and as we were walking by we smelt this AWFUL smell and saw some black mesh was put up.Adam and his dad hoisted Anderson up and he saw this!And one of the bulls was very MAD. Well, I guess in general, that all bulls are mad. They aren't bred to be sweet.

Then we saw some ponies that walk in a circle and Anderson just HAD TO RIDE! I never like these kinds of things. In fact, I feel plain ole' sorry for the ponies. BUT, A sure loved riding on his first real horse, "Bullet"...so my feelings for the ponies welfare, just went out the window. And pretending the drive the Stockyards Car with steer horns on the front...haha!Finally, Anderson seeing that ever elusive "horse swimming" as he put it. We NEVER saw what he was talking about, so I had to find some videos on you tube with horse diving from the 1930's. Oh well...whatever works.

And as I tell Anderson at the end of all his bedtime stories...and we all lived happily ever after! :)