Dallas/Fort Worth - TEXAS.

Dallas Cowboys....baby! Yes we just happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch a practice game. Dallas Cowboys V's the Denver Bronco's. Honestly... if they put on this much of a show for just a practice game then we would LOVE to see the SUPERBOWL! Awesome, awesome, awesome - our $11 seats up in the back row of the 100,000 seat stadium did not dissapoint! From being able to see Tony Romo (the quarterback), to the Dallas Cowgirl Cheerleaders to the Cowboys having a win was an experience we will not forget - not to mention the 50 yard screen that hung just below the retractable roofline! Here is some footage we took -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFWzxaVt-xU

Everything is BIG down here in Texas - it is true. The Stadiums are BIG, the screens at the games are BIG, the trucks (ute's) are BIG, the roads are BIG, the meals are BIG! The landscape is remarkably like that of back home in Australian outback - big, wide open dry spaces.

There are 23 million people who call the state of Texas home (more than what we in Australia have in the entire country - approx 17 million)!

Dallas is in the middle of its 42nd day straight of temperatures over 100 degrees (38 C). Lets see if I can break that for them with my 'lack of' sun tanning ability!

 Dallas was not only the home to the like named hit television series back in the 70's & 80's, and the home of Dr. Pepper - eeww! But it is also the place where JFK was assasinated on November 22nd, 1963.

Pictured above is Kenny on the 'grassy knowle'.

 We also took a tour of the '6th floor museum' which relates to the floor level and window from which the shots were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald back on that fateful day. Even today, the roads outside the museum show the path that the cavlecade took and also have 'X's marked in 2 spots on the road where the hits were made.

Fort Worth is a neighbouring city of Dallas (commonly joined by the same International Airport - of which we later found out that Qantus now fly into, as there were a lot of Australian's down here in Texas)!

Fort Worth was a nice small city with loads of character. With it's horse mounted Police men rather than Police cars and cowboys and cowgirls just roaming the sidewalks. In 'historic downtown' we came across a cattle drive over cobblestoned streets of 'long horned cows'. These animals look rediculous! Their horns span 6 foot across their heads! 

Today we moved on from Dallas/Fort Worth and headed for Lance Armstrong's city of Austin - Texas 4 hours south!

Team Connor USA. XOXOXO