SFRT = Smith Family Road Trip
My mother pointed out to me that I forgot to mention that Amarillo and the surrounding areas had experienced record-breaking temperatures on the exact day that we were there. 112 degrees in one area. And when we sat down for dinner close to 7 pm it was still 104 degrees. Yikes – I think I was trying to forget that part!
The first leg of our road trip took us to Amarillo, TX – the half-way point between home and Colorado Springs. We met my mom, Steve, and Olivia there at the hotel and we all headed south to the Palo Duro Canyon. Such beautiful landscape! We had tickets for the outdoor steak dinner from the Big Texan restaurant, and for TEXAS! the musical held in an outdoor ampitheatre. It was a fun way to spend our time in this somewhat lackluster destination! The Palo Duro Canyon was gorgeous, and is second in size to the Grand Canyon for US canyons. And the musical was really fun – a history lesson, a love story, and a comedy all rolled up together. I enjoyed it!
Here we are trying to teach Samuel how to do the chicken dance…
Caleb was picked to go on stage and help the MC tell the crowd that NO FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY was allowed – in his most gruff voice. He was very cute doing it!
These were the main characters:
The next morning it was time to pack up and get going again…
But first we had to make one last stop at the famed Cadillac Ranch. It's Cadillacs – buried in the ground. People come from all over to spray paint them (it was happening while we were there)…so they never look the same from day to day. They are in the middle of a big, dusty, dirty and VERY windy field…so we went, we saw, we took pictures and we got out of there!
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