It's been a really long weekend. I left Bwd on Thursday with a group of ladies to attend a church meeting in Floydada.
We talked in groups, answered questions and "envisioned". A very congenial group, we stayed in the same room with 9 beds. At the end of the meeting (Saturday noon) I drove by myself to Arlington, Tx .
I rode through several little towns with only a gas station/store and a post office and some larger towns. It was all new territory for me. At one point, I was stopped on the road by a police car which was assisting a man on a 4-wheeler to round-up a bull that had escaped from the fence. It was interesting to watch these two "cowboys" on wheels convince the large animal to go back into the fence. Only once was I uneasy during this exhibition, when the bull headed straight for my van. The 4-wheeler guy headed him off, much to my relief. About 5 minutes later, I was cleared to go on my way. I'm sorry that I didn't whip out my Kodak and record the rodeo. Six hours or so later, I got to Arlington and had supper with N and B. It was a dish he had made up and it was delicious.
N. and I decided to go to the State Fair early Sunday morning before attending our 1:30 pm performance of THE LION KING at Fair Park Theatre. The last time I attended the State Fair was in 1991 when the Katherine the Great exhibit was there. I was a little disappointed with that exhibit which, as I remember, was made up of replicas rather than the actual articles from Katherine the Great.
We saw the CardStacker,
who is a young man who stacks cards to look like skylines of cities. He uses thousands and thousands of cards
We saw ethnic dancers (Folklorico, Celtic, Balkan)
and heard the Marine Band.
We ate fried chocolate chip cookie dough (pretty gaggy), altho' we passed on fried PB &J ( peanut butter and jelly), fried cheesecake, and fried oreos. We visited exhibits of prize winning quilts, prize winning pickles (and all sorts of pickled and canned goods). We saw the end of the "Eagle Brand Milk Cook-Off" and received some recipes. We did see the butter sculpture of animals in a hot air balloon basket and we saw Elsie the Cow in the flesh, along w/ her baby Beauregard.
Who is the matador and who is the "bull"?
In one of the buildings, we talked to ladies who encouraged us to visit Alpine, Texas and Big Bend Natn'l Park. They were impressed that both N and I had been there more than the ladies themselves (they were from Ft. Stockton). They were confused about which one of their pictures was of Boquilla canyon. I helped them out.
Then we went to the play.
OH MY GOODNESS!! We were on the edge of our seats-A Visually amazing production-It was absolutely wonderful. The costumes and set were unique. I'd love to see it again, but when we checked for tickets for two weekends from now, none were available.
Monday morning we got up early to get N's driver's license renewed. DPS opens at 7:30 am and when we arrived at 7:45, the parking lot was FULL. N got in line and received #67--I wonder if they began w/ #1 - at 7:30. She was finished in an hour and 5 minutes. Then to Target and Sam's.
All in all a very full weekend with lots to feel, taste, see, smell, and experience.
