Texas!!!

Next weekend, we are leaving for Texas.  My wife used to be an exchange student, and her host family has invited us to stay.  Actually, this is the first time I visit Texas, so I'm really excited.  As you see on the photo, my travel duck is also excited, now asking the durby duck (with an origami cowboy hat) what it is like in Texas.

Top 20 things I wanna find in Texas

 1. horses (ranch and rodeo... yee-haw!!)
 2. cows (longhorns, shorthorns, any kinds... even holsteins are cute)
 3. buffaloes (are they considered as cows?)
 4. cats (we must visit Amanda and Dan's house to be surrounded by them)
 5. hats (yes, a cowboy hat, felt or straw)
 6. country antiques (lucky if I could find a nice Christmas ornaments)
 7. books (when I travel, I always visit a bookstore to look for a souvenir)
 8. music (wanna get a Christmas CD of country, bluegrass, rock... any style we can feel Texas in Christmas time)
 9. supermarkets (great places to discover the culture of the region)
10. drug store (vitamin tablets, teeth whitening... prices are more reasonable than in Japan)
11. Tex-Mex cuisine (tacos, nachos, fajitas...)
12. steak, BBQ, fried chicken (meat, meat, meat...)
13. tequila (I love it... but no, no, not that much!)
14. Dr.Pepper (I heard they got more variations in the US)
15. IHOP breakfast (why not eat breakfast for dinner tonight?)
16. architectures (like all the other tourists, wanna see something huge or funny or historical...)
17. ball games (Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers... )
18. UFOs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-dx35bCvc)
19. beauty of the nature (flowers, sunset field...)
20. rubber ducks (Howdy, y'all!)

I hopefully wanna make more than half of the above, but our stay is only for a week, so... wish me luck :-)