Home Again

Got home last night from my trip to Fort Worth. It was so nice to get away for a few days. I left on Wed night with my friend Shelby and her kids Mitch and Alyssa went as far as Council Bluffs. Thursday we had a nice drive until we got south of Oklahoma City. We started seeing cars coming from the south with snow on them! What the heck we were supposed to going where the snow seldom falls! The roads were still good but the closer we got to Texas it started to spit a little snow and the trees had snow on them so it had obviously had been snowing. We hit Texas and I thought we were in SD again. It was no longer snowing but it had snowed 7 inches north of Dallas/Fort Worth! The roads were not bad but there was inches of slushy crap on the side of the roads and it was icy in spots. There were cars pulled over and in the ditch all along the way. Turns out they had not had that much snow there since 1942! Fort Worth only had enough to cover the ground and it melted the next day. Each day we were there it got nicer, Sunday was BEAUTIFUL!

On Friday we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards and to Billy Bobs it was a required cheer event. I must say if you never get there you have not missed much. Every hour starting at 11:30 they herd longhorns down the street, a whole 10 of them. Billy Bobs was nothing special either. They had line dancing lessons for the girls (and anyone else) and the kids seemed to enjoy that but as soon as we could we were outta there! We drove up to Grapevine to the mall there and shopped until about 6:30 or so headed back to the hotel and got dinner on the way home, think we ate at Bennigan's that night. We wanted to find a place that we could not eat at here in SF but most places looked a little scary. (We are all kind of picky eaters)

Saturday we went to the Texas Speedway for a tour and got to do two laps around the track. I am not much into Nascar but it was fun and I know Mitch really enjoyed it. It was only fair since he had two days of cheer to sit through.

After lunch we headed to the Fort Worth Convention Center for a long day of cheerleading. Alyssa is on a competition team for Dakota Spirit and I had never been to a competition before but had seen them perform so I really wasn't sure what to expect. Dakota Spirit has 5 competition teams at 2 different levels but for this competition they only took 4, the little Mini's known as Atomic stayed home. OMG but cheerleading is REALLY serious down there. The DS teams did an awesome job but it was clear this would be a learning experience for them. Fusion,was one of 12 teams in the Small(meaning the size of your team) Youth level 2 and they ended up with 10th place. Blaze Large Junior level 3 team (Alyssa's team) was one out of 3 in that level they came in third. the other two teams both are level 4 teams and they each only had one other team to compete against they both took second. This was after 2 days of competition. In all there was at least 100! They are required to stay until all the DS teams have competed so I think we left Sat night after 9:30. It was a long day.

Sunday we got up went to the Waffle House for breakfast about 10:00 then headed to downtown Fort Worth. It was so beautiful out we walked around and browsed the shops until we had to get back to the Convention Center around 2:45. Sunday did not seem as long as Sat. and the girls of coarse had all wanted to do better since they are used to getting 1st place at competitions but like I said this was serious cheerleading country, after all it wasn't that many years ago a Mom was convicted for plotting to kill her daughters competitor!

Monday we headed home and got back around 9:00 but crazy me did not take today off so it was right to work today.

I have to say Shelby kids were so good and Mitch was a real trooper as I sure watching cheerleading for 2 days would not be his idea of the best way to spend a weekend. They never stressed me out once in fact they were a lot of fun to be around.

Shelby and I are thinking of planning another trip in May, without kids to Las Vegas.

As much as I love getting away it is always nice to be home again!