The Western White House

This weekend we went to Waco to go to the OU game. More on that in the next post. The highlight of the weekend, was traveling 20 miles outside of Waco to go see the town of Crawford, Texas. Crawford is home to the Bush Ranch, sometimes referred to as The Western White House. Daniel commented on the way there that he heard he was going to the ranch this weekend. We knew we wouldn't be able to see the actual house, but thought it would be a neat place to go see. The town is really cute. Very vintage western Texas. There is one gas station, which is also a restaurant, and a little souvenir shop. There really isn't much besides that. When we were at the gas station, Daniel asked a local where the Bush ranch was located. He gave us directions and told us we wouldn't be able to see anything, but if lucky, we could see a secret service agent blocking the gate. There are signs all over the road that read "no parking", "no standing", etc. That was our clue that we were getting close. Our next clue came with a slew of helicopters. Oh my goodness were we excited. Our kids thought this was so neat. The helicopters were landing. Holy cow, we were in the presence of the President of the United States. There was one helicopter that looked different. Most of the helicopters were black, but one was white on the top and black on the bottom. We were certain this was the Presidential helicopter. (When we got home we looked it up on the internet and this was confirmed). I took pics of the helicopter, but you have to look long and hard to see it.

When we rounded a corner, we came upon a police guarding the entrance. We slowed down, I asked if I could take his picture (I didn't want him to think I was pulling out a weapon or something). He relented before scolding us and telling us to get a move on. We went a little further down the road, but we really didn't know how to get out of there so we turned around on a dirt road. When we went back past the gate, a black helicopter swarmed in on us. We were laughing because we knew by this time they had run a check on our license plate, knew exactly who we were and every ticket we ever had. (I wonder if they found my blog??!!) They were very obviously checking us out because after some time hovering our car, they must have realized we were a nobody because they flew off. We turned our radio to Fox News and they were reporting live from the Western White House because the President had just arrived. How exciting! We saw it all!

This may sound really silly reading about this in a post, but it really was fun. The kids were thrilled. We decided right then and there that we need to plan a trip to Washington, D.C. The kids were so excited and into it that they would love to see D.C.