Nice start to the day in fort worth. Awesome breakfast and we headed off to see the sights, we should have stayed in bed longer as most laces don't open til 10am. We had a wander then headed to the main drag to watch the cattle run, tho seeing a cowboy on a horse on his mobile was definitely strange. Paul and the boys sat on a longhorn bull and they seemed to enjoy that. We then headed to brickeys for a BBQ lunch. Jacob had the all you can eat ribs and I had BBQ ...

Well a sleep in was required this morning after the midnight shopping trip to Walmart with my friend jim beam. We had a late breakfast and packed our stuff to leave Roanoke and drive to fort worth stockyards. Before we checked in we went for a drive to stockdale that is a cute little town that looks like it is out of a movie. We then took the kids to gamestop to shop and then drove to Hyatt place located in the stockyards. The hotel is beautiful and is themed ol...

What a day in the quiet town of Roanoke. We started the day going to the grape festival in grapevine. It was like something out of the movies. A small country town with old fashioned buildings and friendly southern hospitality. We.... I mean I sampled some wine and then Paul and I entered the grape stomping competition. We didnt win but because we are Aussies the organiser gave us winner t shirts.... People are so nice here. We then came back to the hotel to get ...

Well what can I say, not a good start to the day. We left the Hilton early as we needed to drop off the car before checking in. We left at 7am as our flight was 9am. Seemed easy enough. We could not find the hertz drop off to save our lives. No signs and no idea. 15 minutes before we had to check in at 8am Paul had enough and parked the car in airport multi storey parking. I rang hertz and was put on hold for ages and finally got through to airport office who adv...