We went to a couple of really cool places in Ft Worth. We spent a morning at the Federal Bureau of Printing & Engraving, i.e. the place where they print paper money. It is one of two places in the country they still print money! It was cool to see all the different security measures and all the stacks of money sitting on the factory floor. One cool thing we learned is that the company isn’t a part of the government, they are a separate company and the government pays them between $0.06 – 0.08 per note! Also, if a sheet of bills gets jammed or shredded or something, the printers have to tape the sheet back together to account for every bill before they can leave that day. It was a pretty fascinating place.
We also went to the stockyards which is like a big old western town section of Ft Worth. They do a cattle drive a couple times each day with the biggest longhorns you’ve ever seen. We just walked around and ate some food and took some pictures for the kids. They also have a huge bar called Billy Bob’s. They call it a Honky Tonk but it was really just an enormous bar/concert hall/restaurant/dance hall kind of all-in-one. We went for Country Line Dancing Beginner’s Night and learned a pretty intense line dance. It really got us out of our comfort zone and to let loose a little. We felt so good we thought we’d try another not-so-Dave-and-Dianna activity: karaoke. It was a blast! Dianna sang Carrie and Kelly and I sang the Strokes and ZZ Top. What a hoot!
To round out the week Dianna and I took ourselves to one of our favorite places: Six Flags. We got about 4-5 hours in at the park going on almost all of our favorite rides at least once before they started shutting them down due to high winds. After all these years it is still so much fun for us… doesn’t ever seem to get old a good roller coaster!
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