Texas Day 7

The original plan was to meet at the school at 11, where we'd be taken to a picnic in Dallas. We would then go to a shopping mall around the area. However, we could also go on our own with our families, and since a picnic didn't seem too interesting, and we had already been shopping many times, I decided to go with my host family.


They suggested taking me to the Stockyards, an area through which cowboys still take the cattle, and where 19th century buildings, and "cowboy customs" are still preserved. It is now mainly a touristic and historical site, but people live there. There were many saloons, and cowboy clothes shops. In one of the latter I bought a cowboy hat. We went into a candy shop, and into a saloon, where we had typical cowboy root beer. There were many biker gangs around the area, with their Harley Davidsons and leather vests. There was also a maze, but we didn't go into it. Our intention was to watch the longhorn cattle ride in at 4:00, but we didn't get a chance to do so.


The Drews had invited some friends (the Kennedy's) for dinner, so when we got back home, we were busy preparing stuff. The Kennedy's are long time friends of the Drews, and they consider each other relatives. They turned out to be very nice people, and Tim, Amber and I stayed talking to their daughter Anna (who used to go to WLA), while Sean played with their younger kids.