Fort Worth Texas

It was another short train run, boo.

We had a great day out at a Putt Putt (crazy golf) and baseball place. Willow finally managed to get a go in a batting cage, which she has wanted to do for a while.

Stockyards Station is in the Historic District and probably how a lot of people from the UK growing up on western films imagine a lot of the US to be like. It was once the biggest and busiest livestock marketing places in the south west now it is of course a complete tourist area where you can relive the Old West, but I really liked it.








Twice a day there is a cattle drive of Texas Longhorn steers through The Stockyards as years ago this is what happened here when the cattle arrived by train and were taken to the slaughter.



There were some nice little train bits and memorabilia around also, which I'm not sure I would have been interested in a few years back but actually living on one of the things makes you look at them slightly different.

One of the cattle pens where made into The Cowtown Maze. Willow has been in a maze before but not one that she can remember so has been wanting to go in one for ages. This one was quite good, not to big and you had to find four stamps inside and stamp your card before you came out. All against the clock.

There was also a petting zoo. Willow wanted there to be a pig but she had to make do with goats, a calf and a donkey.

For lunch I had a buffalo burger as it seemed the thing to do in Texas. It was really nice, I liked it more than beef.

Another must while in Texas was a rodeo which definitely was a unique experience. Willow even participated in the calf and sheep scramble though I'm not really sure she knew what was going on.

Downtown Fort Worth and Sundance Square were pretty, not that many real shops but enough for the time that we were here. As usual it is mainly bars and restaurants but did have some nice buildings and some art work spotted about.




Right next to the arena was the Fort Worth Water Gardens. I was a really nice area and consists of three main pools. The Meditation Pool, The Aerating Pool and the Active Pool. This is where some of the scenes from Logans Run was filmed.