The House We Built... a cook family fairytale: Red River Shootout

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Red River Shootout

This last week we made the LONG drive to Dallas on Friday. Mark didn't get off until 9PM, and by the time we finally got on the road we didn't get into Dallas until 3AM. We slept for 4 hours and then headed to the Texas OU game and Texas State Fair. It took us 2 1/2 hours to get into the stadium!! The Texas State Fair was inside the parking lot of the Cotton Bowl. To get to the game we had to enter the Fair, and then the stadium. It was like nothing I had ever seem before. The Cotton Bowl holds 90,000 people and the Fair had another few hundred thousand people. AND everyone was in Texas or OU gear. Mark got really good seats and the kids LOVED the game. CC was so into the game. She watched every snap, and was yelling at the Red Team. (OU) She quickly picked up the Texas cheers and was cheering right along side everyone else. The kids lasted half the game and then we headed to the fair. This was right after Carter and I ran into Leanne Rhymes and "Officer Jesse Cardoza!" The kids and I stayed outside the fair while Mark went back to the game. Carter LOVED the dog show, and CC participated in her very first Texas Rodeo!! There was a whole farming section that was sponsored by Oprah. The kids got to plant seeds, sell their vegees, milk a cow, sell the milk and buy something with all their cash. It was a really fun set up that the kids really enjoyed. We were really hoping to last until Miranda Lambert came on but with two kids, no naps, and going on 10 hours of fun, there was NO WAY. We settled for some fried catfish, fried shrimp, pizza, lemonade, cotton candy and a funnel cake!! We went home and left the next day. We stopped at UT Austin on the way home and saw the Longhorn Stadium. It was a LONG drive, but the kids really had fun. Now we know driving to Austin will be cake!

CC driving the tractor about to sell their vegges to make some cash.