Since moving to Texas, we have had the opportunity to enjoy a few of the local attractions. Living in a large city affords us an endless list of entertaining, cultural, natural, culinary and social venues to experience. We continue to add to our list of things we "must do" while we're living here. We hope that many friends will come and visit us, so that we will have lots of excuses to accomplish our to-do list! Here are a few things we've done so far.
Randolph AFB Air Show-
In October, the Air Show came to Randolph. We couldn't have missed it if we wanted to...we were still in the base TLFs at the time, and for days before the Saturday-Sunday official air show, the planes were practicing their stunts and flights overhead. All day long, the sky was filled with jets flying from right to left, north to south, and 0-Mach in what seemed like no time at all. The Blue Angels gave an AWESOME performance with some of the most incredible flying maneuvers ever seen.
Occasionally around Texas you get exposed to the native die-heart allegiance to cowboys, country, and beef...here is one such exposure I encountered. I loved it so much, I had to double back on the freeway to take a picture of it! It's an advertisement for a Texas Rodeo.
We've also learned that Texans have a language of their own. For a while, we were confused by phrases and words that we heard. Then we got the following translating tool, which helped us to understand our neighbors better:
One of the fun entertainment attractions we have just down the road is the Retama Park racetrack. It's a live horse race track. For Tim's birthday, we took the opportunity to attend the end-of-the-season races at the park, and thoroughly enjoyed our evening. It made me think of the scene in My Fair Lady, when Eliza makes her public debut after her "polishing makeover" by Dr. Henry Higgens...Eliza gets so excited by the horses in the race, she forgets all of her "polite" manners and makes a social blunder. (If you haven't seen the movie, you must. It's a classic!). Anyhow, we had fun learning how to read the statistics given in the handbook, observing other people at the racetrack, and finally placing a bet of our own on a horse. The horse didn't win, but it was a close race.
Among other area attractions is the local Wildlife Safari Park. When Tim's brother, Micah, and sister-in-law, Hannah, came out for a visit, we took them through the drive-through park. We saw a bunch of different animals, and even got to feed many of them from our vehicle. It reminded us a bit of our favorite tourist attraction in Rapid City: Bear Country; except the Wildlife Safari Park doesn't have bears.
Randolph AFB Air Show-
The Blue Angels lined up, getting ready for their performance.
In October, the Air Show came to Randolph. We couldn't have missed it if we wanted to...we were still in the base TLFs at the time, and for days before the Saturday-Sunday official air show, the planes were practicing their stunts and flights overhead. All day long, the sky was filled with jets flying from right to left, north to south, and 0-Mach in what seemed like no time at all. The Blue Angels gave an AWESOME performance with some of the most incredible flying maneuvers ever seen.
Occasionally around Texas you get exposed to the native die-heart allegiance to cowboys, country, and beef...here is one such exposure I encountered. I loved it so much, I had to double back on the freeway to take a picture of it! It's an advertisement for a Texas Rodeo.We've also learned that Texans have a language of their own. For a while, we were confused by phrases and words that we heard. Then we got the following translating tool, which helped us to understand our neighbors better:
One of the fun entertainment attractions we have just down the road is the Retama Park racetrack. It's a live horse race track. For Tim's birthday, we took the opportunity to attend the end-of-the-season races at the park, and thoroughly enjoyed our evening. It made me think of the scene in My Fair Lady, when Eliza makes her public debut after her "polishing makeover" by Dr. Henry Higgens...Eliza gets so excited by the horses in the race, she forgets all of her "polite" manners and makes a social blunder. (If you haven't seen the movie, you must. It's a classic!). Anyhow, we had fun learning how to read the statistics given in the handbook, observing other people at the racetrack, and finally placing a bet of our own on a horse. The horse didn't win, but it was a close race.Among other area attractions is the local Wildlife Safari Park. When Tim's brother, Micah, and sister-in-law, Hannah, came out for a visit, we took them through the drive-through park. We saw a bunch of different animals, and even got to feed many of them from our vehicle. It reminded us a bit of our favorite tourist attraction in Rapid City: Bear Country; except the Wildlife Safari Park doesn't have bears.
