We went to Tyler's football game. Football is a big deal down here. Ty plays for his middle school, the Walsh Wildcats. They won the game & Ty had a great game. We go to at least 2 football games each week. Matthew's team was off this week so we only went to 1 game. It was a slow week.
We went to Round Rock High School where Annie & Matthew go to school. They are the dragons. Matthew plays football there & Annie plays tennis & is on the yearbook staff. RRHS is 99 years old this year! It seems more like a Jr college than a high school with its layout and the way it's run. They have a lot of history & traditions. Next week is Homecoming and they have a parade and some other traditions we have yet to understand. Of course they have a big homecoming football game. Go Dragons!
We also went to Jack, Jessie & Cameron's school, Old Town Elementary. We live in the Old Town part of the city. In fact we live really close to THE round rock! It's a rock that's round in the middle of Brushy Creek. When the cattle drives & settlers travelled through this area they found that the safest and easiest way to cross the creek was at the round rock. So the area became known as Round Rock. Back to the school, the playground is nestled in the trees. It's really fun! Of course there is a football/soccer field out of the trees. Jack spends his recess playing football. They are the Old Town Texans.
We went grocery shopping at our new favorite grocery store, HEB plus. H.E.B. you say each letter. It is a Texas grocery store that was started long ago, not too far from Austin, by a man name Harold E. Butts. Aka Harry Butts. No joking!!! It's a great store and the plus is their super store. We visit HEB several time a week.
We wanted to show Stanley some of our favorite food here in Texas. BBQ is our favorite but unfortunately we didn't get BBQ this week. But we did get Bush's chicken! Our family loves Bush's chicken & Popeye's chicken. We took Stanley to Bush's for Happy Hour where we get chicken tender rolls for $1. I wish we could share the flavor of this awesome chicken! Bush's is a local business started in a town located about an hour north of here.
Our favorite treat here are Round Rock doughnuts! A local business that is huge here. I can't explain them but they are yummy! A Round Rock tradition. There is only one location but it's big! They have a drive thru & are open from 6am until 8pm. There are always cars in the drive thru. Yum!
There are water towers all over Texas. Most of them are a lot taller than the one we took Stanley to in downtown Round Rock. Most water towers hold the water we use here, this one is older and is used as a decoration not for water. We can see it from miles around and we really love it. We don't see mountains here, we see water towers.
We played with Stanley in our yard that is full of trees. We live in a neighborhood called "The Woods" & it fits! We have a lot of tall oak trees that are really old. In our front yard we have a crepe myrtle tree that has flowers on it all summer & still has flowers on it now. It's taller than our 2 story house! We let Stanley climb up it since that is what Jack & Tyler love to do.
Texas has a lot of the same things as Utah. We have Wal-Mart, Lowe's, McDonald's, Sam's Club, and more. The people here are really nice & love Texas. The Texas flag is everywhere! The weather is warm down here. It was 84 degrees yesterday, Jack & Ty went swimming. There are a lot of things to see & do here, we didn't even go to Austin. Austin is 30 miles south of us and it's a great city to visit. Maybe next time we'll get down there. The biggest difference here is that there are no mountains! You can see for miles with no mountains in site! There are some hills here but they aren't very big. It's been strange to not have the beautiful mountains to look at. But we love exploring new places & meeting new people! We really love it here!
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