Day 2 was spent in Ft. Worth among crowds of eager K-State fans. We spent the morning in the Ft. Worth Stockyards. This, we enjoyed a great deal! We got to see some of the old pens where cattle were kept. During the early 1900's, there were nearly 2,000 pens that covered 200 acres. And all of them had brick-laid floors. Cattle, sheep, and pigs were brought here daily, sold, and slaughtered at the 2 meat-packing plants nearby. There was a museum in the Cattle Exchange building where we got most of our information. They still use that building today for auctions, only now they are done mostly by video conferencing. There was an auction going on that morning, in fact! They have turned the Stockyards area into quite a tourist attraction with lots of children's activities, shops, and restaurants. I think we found the historical aspect of it more interesting as adults, but I'm sure if the kids had been with us, we would have done more of the touristy things!
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| This was a look into the modern-day auction |
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The pigs and sheep would have been herded through these tunnels to
their pens. |
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| This coliseum was built in 1908 and they hold rodeos here every weekend! |
One thing that happens down in the stockyards every day is driving a small herd of Texas Longhorns down the street. It was kind of fun to see them and to imagine what a real cattle drive with hundreds of animals might have been like.
We had lunch at the Cattlemen's Steakhouse - a place we had been told to try. It did not disappoint! Chelan had a good steak and I had a really great hamburger. We even had company . . .
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This old boy was mounted on the wall next to our table. Nothing like
eating steak with a bull looming beside you! There were pictures
like this beside every table - not a vegetarian's favorite place! |
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| We sat right next to the grill and got to watch our food being prepared! |
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