Mike and my brother in law Ted are history, western, etc. buffs... so the reason for the trip was to see the Palo Dura Canyon and the play "Texas".
We had been to the canyon and looked around last summer and decided we needed to go back for the musical with the rest of the fam...
We started our day at the Cadillac Ranch on old route 66 to spray paint a little...
On a side story, Kellie's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks and she had asked if we could celebrate early while the family was with us... We gave her the standard "we'll see" and never mentioned it again.
They had brought her birthday gifts and we had planned to do her birthday at dinner but never told her. She asked about it right before we were about to leave the hotel for dinner and when we told her we were, she replied "I brought my tiara just in case, let me get it..." I love that kid!
We took the free limo ride to the Big Texan restaurant... well, most of us did... Katie thought it was "embarrassing" and rode with Aunt Jan....
it was an old limo but a fun ride...
Dinner was fun. We got to see two people try to eat the big 72 oz steak in an hour... both failed...
There were calf fries on our appetizer platter... Mike made Jennifer try one... she wasn't thrilled...
Funnier though, was when my sister got a big fried jalapeno rather than a mushroom... she thought her "insides were on fire"
The birthday girl was a little put out that they didn't sing to you for your birthday at this place... think the huge dessert made up for it...
Then it was off to the canyon.
a sweet man took our picture but left his shadow for us to enjoy...
the boys really wanted to go look at caves that had been used for hide outs etc... luckily there wasn't enough time for that...
The play was great, the night beautiful and a good time was had by all...
Having done almost all the touristy things we all headed home today....
We did have to make a little stop to visit with this lovey "mustang cowlly"
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