Everything’s bigger in Texas, especially my appetite

Slept in today–11 am TX time, 1 pm GA time–oops. Woke up to the sound of the smoke alarm–BREAKFAST IS READY! Had eggs and ham with hashbrowns. It was a good start of the day.
We went to the El Paso Saddle Company and big souvenier store. I didin’t find anything I wanted. I saw an Indian blanket I liked, but it was made in India. Oh, cruel irony, Columbus.
For lunch we went to Wienerschnietzel, a fast food chain of hot dogs. It was nothing special but I can say I went somewhere that had “the world’s best wieners.”

Dinner time was a trek to the desert to Cattleman’s Ranch.  It has been voted one of Texas’ best restaurants and I agree!!  They have a steak called the Cowboy that is 2 lbs.  I settled for the 10 oz NY Strip Steak.  While we were waiting for our food to be cooked (and possibly to be slaughtered) we went out on the Ranch and looked at their mini-zoo.  They had rabbits, ostrich, goats, Texas Longhorns and Buffaloes.  Our favorite was the snake pit.  It is a big cage with about a dozen rattle snakes inside.  We could see them slither around and one started rattling at us through the mesh.  Maran was scared and all through our walk we would grab her and make hissing sounds.  Also the buffalo sneezed water at Maran.  Back at the dinner table my steak came and in the first bite I was in love.   I have had steak before but now I realize the importance of cut and quality–like diamonds, steaks are a girls’ best friend.  I ate it all!!!  I don’t think I could ever have another steak in my life because it could not compare to this one.  I also had a baked potato.  For dessert there was apple pie. 

There was no eating after this point. I think you can figure out why.