National Day of the American Cowboy

We went to the Fort Worth Stockyards for a special celebration today in honor of the National Day of the American Cowboy. We had never been to the Stockyards so it was a great experience for all of us. We would say it is similiar to the French Quarter in New Orleans but so much cleaner and more wholesome! There were shops and restaurants, people dressed up in costumes of the Old West, a vintage train ride, gunfight show, 5400 square feet of a hay bale maze, street performers, children's roping lessons, etc.

We had lunch at Riscky's Barbeque in Union Station. Nicholas is proud of the Texas Marshall badge that he got!

We went to The Candy Barrel and Nicholas got a giant lollipop. He had so many people comment about how cute he was as he walked down the street in his cowboy hat licking a lollipop that was as big as his head!

We stopped in at Fincher's Western Wear and let Nicholas try on some cowboy boots. He loved them and wouldn't take them off. He was very cute in them. However, we spend our summers running around barefoot outside so I think we will wait until the fall to get him the boots. We did see a cute straw cowboy hat that we might have to go back and get for him though.

We didn't realize that there are two cattle drives every day in Fort Worth! We were excited to get to watch one. They are big, beautiful animals and everyone was excited to be able to watch them as they walked down the street in front of us.


Nicholas loves to pretend to be a super hero. Here he got to pretend to be a "bad guy" in jail!