dallas cowboys cheerleaders! :D

DALLAS TEXAS

After a rather quick, nice and fun time in New Mexico, meeting a bear and everything, we are now going to the ”cowboy state” of Texas! We were really excited to see some cowboys on our way to the city of Dallas, but I guess you don’t just see them by the road because we didn’t see any at all L.

After have been driving through Texas for a few hours we haven’t seen anything special, just desert and some small villages along the way. As far as we have seen this state looks like nothing exciting at all. On top of this boring-looking state our GPS had no battery time left when we were about an hour from Dallas. So we drove past the big city of Dallas (don’t ask how…) and ended up in Arlington just outside Dallas. We didn’t knew where we were so we stopped at a 7eleven and asked for directions to central Dallas. The man told us that Dallas was straight west from here, he also told us that if we wanted to see the famous Dallas Cowboys, the football team of Dallas, we didn’t need to go to Dallas since they had their Arena here in Arlington. We asked him when the next game is and where the arena is so we can drive there and buy some tickets. The game was in two days so we had plenty of time to find a place to park our car over the nights, take a good look on downtown Dallas and maybe just rest some. We decided to not go to central Dallas today so we drove around in Arlington in search for a nice place to stay over the night. It didn’t look bright for us so we stopped at a local supermarket and bought some food before continuing our search. It felt like days when we drove around in Arlington constantly looking for a place to park the goddamn car. We found one after what felt like an eternity.

The next day we decided to leave our perfect spot and go to central Dallas! Hugo wanted to go to the Elm Street because this was the place former president John F. Kennedy was murdered 1963. We quickly found this really big street in the middle of Dallas. Hugo kind of convinced us to go to the Sixth Floor Museum just nearby the street at the Dealey Plaza. It’s a museum about the JFK murder in -63. The museum didn’t have any guided tours but they had personal you could ask if you wondered anything special. I can tell you that this is truly a place to visit if you are going to Dallas because there is so much knowledge in here not just about the assassination itself but about JFK himself and other things, but mainly about JFK.

So after an informative and entertaining time at the museum it was time for lunch. We didn’t have anything special just some premade sandwiches and we bought ourselves a drink each. We still didn’t know what to do this afternoon so we decided to go back to the car and maybe drive out in the desert and camp for the night. So that night we slept beneath the stars out in the open (inside the car). We got to see a really nice view of Dallas at night from there.

The next day it was back to business! We read in the local newspaper there was going to be a Wind Festival today at the Trinity River, this is free and made by the city of Dallas. We didn’t know what to expect so we went there and it was a kite festival. There were some really cool kites and a lot of families with their children there. It was a really great time because you always had a great time talking to the Americans or just watching some off the spectacular show kites, it was really nice food there aswell!

The next day we got up early cause it was a Sunday game and it started 3.15 pm so we had to make our way to the stadium and find a parking spot for the car. Linus told us that Dallas Cowboys are the second most valuable sports franchise in the world, valued at about 1.5 billion dollars. Only Manchester United is worth more at 1.8 billion dollars. Dallas Cowboys also have a very famous cheerleaders squad called none the less than Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders :P We found out that they had some like fitness/training videos on youtube.com that you could take a look at and get some nice training the cheerleading way! The cheerleading squads all around USA often perform at charity events and not only the footballgames of their team. They are popular and respected in USA and we kind of thought and began to wonder why we don’t have any kind of cheerleading back home in Sweden.

Oh, well. Maybe we will in a near future or maybe we don’t.

Over and out from the guys in Dallas.