Monday, April 26, 2010

Day 24 – Fort Worth, TX (0 miles – rest day)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Today was an off day in Fort Worth. It was much appreciated by everyone on the team. We all had a pretty late night last night, so the large majority of the morning was spent sleeping. We woke up to eat breakfast. And then napped again outside.

We were super lazy. It was so refreshing.

We got motivated to actually do something in the afternoon. Maggie, Jenn, Lenore, Jody, Chris, Tim, Pete, and I went back to the Stockyards for the afternoon. We wandered around to see the sights. Maggie bought some cowboy boots. She is starting to look like a real Texan.
The Stockyard area is a perfect area for people watching. And, oh boy, there are some good people to watch in Texas. The common Texan expression is that “everything is bigger in Texas.” Well, this seems to be true with fashion, as well. In the Texan fashion, it seems to be “go big or go home.” I have never seen larger cowboy hats in my life. T-shirts are tight, jeans are tight (for both men and women). The cowboy boots are intricately designed and detailed. The belt buckles are huge. We even saw one belt buckle that had a pistol that actually fired. It was crazy. There is only one good word to describe female fashion in Texas – bling. Bling, bling, bling. Women walk around wearing as many rhinestones as physically possible. I sometimes wonder if they might fall over from the sheer weight of their fake diamonds. There are rhinestones on their shoes, jeans, belts, belt buckles, shirts, hats, bracelets, necklaces. Everything. If you look at a Texan woman in the wrong light, you just might be blinded by all of their glittering bling.

We went to a delicious Texan steakhouse for dinner. Some of the team went to a rodeo and had a great time, but I was tired and wanted to go back to camp and get some sleep. Cowboy boot shopping and people watching can be quite exhausting.

End of the twenty-fourth day. And it was blingin’.

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