Two-Steppin' Out Tonight

I'm a Texan and I always have been and always will be, and well, I'm rather proud of that fact. I really am. I won't go in to the reasons (there's just so many) I'm so proud of my state but let's all just concede that Texas is a great place. Okay? Done.

So I went to Billy Bob's Texas tonight-the first time I've ever been! For all you Texans out there reading and who've been to Billy Bob's, give me a break. For the rest of you, git yer boots on and git yer self to Billy Bob's. It's just a good old time way out in Fort Worth, right by the Stockyards. It's just a huge place! Just massive: not only are there several eating areas and bars and the great stage for the band and dance floor, but there's a large billiards area, a casino, two large gift stores, a rodeo, and a huge concert venue that stretched out into blackness from where I could see. Not to mention the scores of autographed hand/feet/face prints by all of country and folk music's finest covering almost every naked wall and the great and wonderful Texan regalia hanging around on ceilings and walls. This place is what it says it is to me: it's a mini-Texas!

It's a little microcosm of Texan culture, I think. There's a melding of young and old people, there's the Texan beer, the good old southern music, there's the casual cowboys mingling with Texas' finest and reknowned beautiful women, the flags and the open sense of belonging and welcome that (I think) pervades most of the state of Texas. I felt taken in, at least. I've never been two-stepping but had a blast learning. I'm not big on the whole boots thing but I do have a nice pair so I had to hit those up. I was just blown away. Everything was as I could expect it, it was quite a lot of ecgaging, reallly-and involving! I was taken in and everything I'd heard and seen and assumed about the place was positivily true! Word of mouth sells a place like that, I think, and it sesems to be working for Billy Bob's. Yee-haw.