Off to Crawford

Last weekend, I took a road trip to Waco with my new friend Laura, April from work and my sister, Kristi who was visiting from Phoenix. I had already been there once, but we had some new sights to see, so I was totally game. April and I went to lunch a few days before the trip and scoped out the maps and brochures to find the best compilation of things to do on our trip!

The first stop was Crawford, Texas (about 20 miles west of Waco) to see George W. Bush's ranch, AKA The Western White House. Laura is a HUGE Dubya fan, so she was super stoked about this part of the trip. We headed into Crawford on George W. Bush Parkway!

Here's our first photo op (April's rolling stop to get a picture of the sign!):

And of course, the post office pic (too bad Maggie wasn't with us - she could've scoped it out and compared it to our post office in Arlington!)

There were a few gift shops that we stopped in - LOTS of presidential items in this teeny tiny little town - so weird! But I DID have to pose with W. in this store:

And is this the cutest little store/vet or what?! I don't know if it's still open, but we thought it was pretty cute!

One of the most important stops in Crawford was the Coffee Shop Cafe - a little restaurant/coffee shop that George W. Bush frequents when he is in town. He even negotiated the details of the purchase of his ranch in their back office!

We went in and acted like total idiot tourists, but I needed to see what it looked like!

Here's a picture of W. outside the front door to the cafe:

And actually, this little coffee shop was voted to be one of the 40 Best Small Town Cafes in Texas!

And of course, they have presidential stuff in the cafe as well.....

It was pretty weird to walk into a small town coffee shop and imagine the freaking PRESIDENT drinking coffee in his jeans like it's no big deal! The locals said that he was in town about a month ago - too bad we missed him. I would've fainted if he would have been in there when we were!