Nick, Jonathan, Glen, James, Livvy, Daf, Ryan and Teags were all headed to the State Fair of Texas by train today but their plans were changed once they realised that the train ride was going to take them 1.5 hours to get to the fair and they had just missed a train and had to wait for another hour. They decided to join Donny and go and visit his ranch up in Tioga about a 35 minute drive away. The kids all had a lot of fun chasing the two dogs Rosie and Lilly all around the ranch and playing with the oodles of kittens. They got to see all of Donny's horses and Jerry-Lee, the long-horn steer (Donny's pride and joy!). Margaret was meeting a bunch of girlfriends and having drinks together to celebrate her birthday!
Karen, Wendy and myself decided to visit Southfork Ranch from the TV series "Dallas". I had been to Southfork about 16 years ago and it was completely different this time. Nowadays you can go for a tour through the mansion and the grounds and it is quite magnificent. We thought we would only be there for an hour or so but ended up staying for about three hours. They had a great gift shop so we all managed to stock up on some Southfork souvenirs. Luckily we had visited the Ranch this day as they would be closed in two days' time as they were about to start filming again for the second series of the new Dallas show!
We arrived back in Denton quite late so we fed the kids in the Texas Roadhouse steakhouse adjacent to the Best Western and then Donny drove us to Billy Bob's to experience a night at the biggest Honky Tonk in the world. Unfortunately we arrived too late to watch the events in the bullring but we did have fun listening to a local band, watching everyone boot-scooting around, drinking, having photos taken on a bull and once again spending up in the gift shop. It was a great (and late) night and we had a ton of fun!
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