Back from Texas!

Well, almost three weeks have passed already, though.  The swine flu commotion didn't stop us or anything.  We flew to Texas and completed the "20 top things" list, which could not have been made without the help we got from those nice people in Texas!  Everything worked out so perfectly.

 1. horses (ranches were everywhere and also I saw many cowboys on horses at Stockyards and rodeo)
 2. cows (cows were all over... longhorns were impressive!)
 3. buffaloes (found a peaceful herd of buffaloes on the way from DFW airport... saw Teddy the camel as well.)
 4. cats (we were surrounded... and so happy)
 5. hats (had our photo taken in cowboy costume!)
 6. country antiques (bought a nice Christmas ornament of a cowboy snowman)
 7. books (bought a Texas guide book, thick and heavy encyclopedia of cats)
 8. music (Black Hawk, George Strait, Books & Dunn, Marty Robbins, Wilie Nelson, etc... and a bluegrass CD too)
 9. supermarkets (Walmart and Target... Costco was awesome)
10. drug store (Walgreen... nice place to buy souvenirs)
11. Tex-Mex cuisine (Chilis, Los Amigos... Tacos was surely very good... now I'm a big fan of jalapeno peppers)
12. steak, BBQ, fried chicken (had plenty of them... now I know chicken fried steak is not fried chicken at all)
13. tequila (had three shots of Cabo Wabo tequila!)
14. Dr.Pepper (guess I completed all kinds... visited the Dr.Pepper museum)
15. IHOP breakfast (ate Belgium waffle with strawberry sauce for dinner!)
16. architectures (old west fort, old town of Graham, Rangers Stadium)
17. ball games (Texas Rangers VS Chicago Whitesox... Rangers won 5 to 1!)
18. UFO (I saw something flying, and it disappeared while I looked somewhere else for a second... might had been a airplane, but unidentified)
19. beauty of the nature (Blue bonnet, Indian paintbrush... it was the best season to enjoy them blooming everywhere)
20. rubber ducks (found some at Walmart and Walgreen... ordered many of them at Amazon and took them back with us)

It was absolutely a great trip, but we suffered a heavy jet lag for a week after we came back, our job kept us busy and post-holiday blues made us lazy, could not finish arranging those photos we took.  Well, now we are recovered!