Texas

During last winter’s break, I went to Texas to stay at one of my teammates’ houses, Joey Dussault. A group of five of us flew down after our last exams. Since it was pretty cold here I could not wait to get down to the south. After looking at the weather before leaving it was looking pretty promising that we would finally get away and get some sun in their seventy and eighty degree weather. This is exactly what happened. Besides a day or two of rain which just blew over in a couple of hours, it was nothing but sunny and warm.
It was perfect weather, even though it was still winter time, we had Joey’s pool and hot tub to remind us of the summer days. It was nice to be able to get away from the cold since summer is my favorite season anyway.
So, we flew into Texas and could feel the warmth of the air as soon as we got off of the plane. As we waited for our bags we found Mr. Dussault awaiting our arrival. After getting our bags, we went to the car and headed to Joey’s house in Fort Worth, Texas. We saw plenty of the typical Texas cowboys and farm land on our way home. As soon as we got to his house, the first thing we did after putting our bags in our rooms was head straight for the pool and hot tub. After all the cold weather back home and the buildup of anxiousness that pool and hot tub felt great.
For our five day stay, most of the time was spent in Joey’s backyard either playing basketball, swimming, lounging by the pool, relaxing in the hot tub, or trying to rope Tomcat’s (Joey’s younger brother) fake cattle. However, we did get a lot of site seeing in too. One day we spent at the Stockyards in downtown Fort Worth, where years ago they used to bring cattle through packed on trains. While we were there Joey took us in the saloon where Chuck Norris’, Walker Texas Ranger is filmed. I asked the lady working if Chuck was coming in but she said no. Later that night we went downtown again to Billy Bob’s, which is the largest honkeytonk in the world. Two of the days we had some interesting times on the golf course which was probably due to people building their houses too close to the course, but hey that’s just my opinion. Anyway, on the third day the Dussault’s had friends and neighbors over for a party. This was the first time I ever had crawfish which the south is pretty known for they said. They were pretty good too it kind of tasted like shrimp to me. On the fourth day, we went to Joey’s friends ranch for a couple hours of skeet shooting and driving around in the back of his brothers truck looking for hogs, which are common there. After some disappointment in not finding a hog, we headed back to the house to get ready for the Dallas Mavericks basketball game, which we went to and they won the game to make the playoffs. Before the game we walked around Dallas and got to stand on the X in the middle of the road where Kennedy was shot and we got to see the building from which he was supposedly shot from.
On the fifth day we went to the golf course for one more round before going back to Joey’s to pack before our flight. It was nice and relaxing to get away from the cold and get some sun and warm weather while we were there; it was one of my favorite/most fun trips ever!