Ft. Worth, TX

7.17.2010

Today is the end of our day off in Ft. Worth, so I decided to make one post for these two days. Yesterday’s ride was pretty simple and was about 80 miles by the end of the day. First we rode into downtown Ft. Worth where we had lunch at chipotle, and hopped back on the bikes to ride another 10 miles to our friendship visit in Arlington. There we had dinner, and played wheelchair basketball against the current NCAA champions, the UTA Movin’ Mavs. We got beat pretty bad, as we sort of expected to, but it was a bunch of fun while it lasted. The final score was 77 to 8, and that was even when they let us play 6 vs. 5.


This morning we woke up at 7:00AM and had a continental breakfast provided by some Pi Alphas. We spent most of the day running errands. We went to the bike shop, to Wal-Mart, and later in the day we went to the Fort Worth Stockyards. The stockyards are like a western themed strip mall, where you could buy all sorts of cowboy stuff. I decided to get a pair of boots made by Tony Lama with green tops. They were pretty expensive, so I sought out and purchased the cheapest cowboy hat in the store to go along with it.

From there we went to dinner at a big family style Mexican restaurant called Joe T. Garcia’s. I got the enchilada platter, which came with rice, tacos, nachos and salsa, and refried beans. From there we headed over to the local pool where we swam until they kicked us out. This pool was a 5 year old’s dream come true. There was a big pirate ship with working water cannons, those cool waterfall mushrooms, two springboards and two HUGE tube slides. Needless to say this was right up our alley, and we had a blast horsing around and flirting with the lifeguards.

Super short ride tomorrow, but I’m gonna try to actually get 8 hours tonight. We’ll see how that works out.