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| So on we go.. train from Ft. Worth to Dallas | The TRE. $12 gets you an all day fare on this train and all of the other DART rapid transports. | We got there and noticed one thing... |
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| for a Monday, this place is deserted! | This pig was enormous... over 800 lbs | When I mean empty, we were wondering if it was even open! |
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| But by 2 p.m. it started to pick up a bit | I made Darren go into a botanic garden (Urban Gardening) | All kinds of ways to plant veggies without a back yard |
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| The previous picture was a cucumber plant... all from this one little container | And these tomato plants... | all from a little seedling container. |
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| Hydroponics Lettuce | Then we had eyes on the largest wheel in Texas - The Texas Star | We walked though the arcade area - glad I'm older. I would have played almost all of these in my younger days! ($$$$$) |
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| Darren being a good guy and wearing his mask. (though most weren't) | The serpentine line to get on the Texas Star. | About a 20 minute line. Glad it wasn't a busy day... could have been an hour or more! |
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| Almost there... | You don't get the size of it until you are at the bottom of it. Then you see that red area... that's only 1/2 of the way up! | They keep you pretty caged in but it was neat to do (once). |
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| Then to the Texas Skyway for a ride across the fair to our photo op with Big Tex! | Haven't done one of these since I was about 10 at Six Flags over Texas! | Texas Star |
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| A lot of rides on the midway too | Some memories of Dallas Cowboy games a long time ago over there! | There in the distance is Big Tex! |
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| There he is... welcoming you every 15 minutes | Darren with Big Tex | Me with Big Tex |
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| History of Big Tex | ||
