Monday, October 20, 2008

Weekend Wrap-Up - Saturday

Saturday, we went to the Texas State Fair. Man, was it was a blast!

I got my picture taken with a real Dallas Cowboy.


We rode the really big Ferris Wheel, which is so big they leave it up year-round.

You can see the whole cityscape from it.

Then we saw the exotic bird show where they have a hawk that flies down from the top of the Ferris Wheel to the stage. (It was really hard to take a picture of. The bird is that little black dot at the right upper-corner of the ferris wheel.)

After that we (by we, I mean I) paddled around in the little lake area in a big swan.

We saw Big Tex, a huge animatronic cowboy decked out in Dickies apparel that welcomes people to the fair. He was kind of creepy…

I got Garrett to ride a roller-coaster with me, where you apparently have to be a certain height and only have one arm. (Look at the third rule.)

Dinner was awesome! We shared a turkey leg.

It was my first time ever having one, and it took me a little while to figure out how to eat it. Garrett made fun of me when I tried to use a fork and knife.

Now here comes the really awesome part…at the end of the night we saw Michelle Branch!

Live!!

In concert!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofdDma9ofeg


At the main stage!!! It was soo good. She did a special acoustic show and we got to get pretty close. It was really cool! We were so pumped.

A little bit of back story on our love for Michelle Branch…Garrett really liked her when she first came out. She was one of his first girl-pop faves, but it made him feel less manly. So, for our first Christmas we were living together he bought me her CD. I got her second CD a couple years ago for Christmas, and she has a new one coming out the beginning of next year, so I’m sure I’ll get that for my birthday in February. We love you, Michelle!

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