Texas Cowboy Crawl

We met at the Longhorn Saloon with Mark Mims and his daughter Serena.  He brought his trailer with four horses.    We were to ride our horses through town and stop at some local cowboy bars.
My horse is Chili, Norm's horse is Oreo.  We were given a quick how to lesson, signed our release form and then we mounted our horses and headed into town.  
This is the first time Norm was ever on a horse.  
Horses must stop at traffic lights.   We went through town and had our first stop at The 11th Street Cowboy bar.    We hitched our horses at a hitching post.  Unmounted the horses and went in the bar.  It is a very old bar.  there are bras and other memorabilia of the past hanging everywhere.  We could only get beer or wine.    No pretty fruity drinks here.  
After a couple of beers there we headed down to the river and walked the horses along the side for a bit.   At one point my horse decided to trot faster than the others.   I pulled on his reins to stop him, but I was hanging on tight with my legs and feet, which apparently means go to the horse.  So he was going fast.   They told me to let go with my feet and he stopped.  
We went on to the next bar.   It is the second oldest longest running bar in Texas.   We hitched our horses out back and went in the back door to the Arkey Blues Silver Dollar Saloon.   It is a dark, smoky, basement bar.   There is a band playing country music.  We had a beer there and then headed next door to the Chicken Coop bar.  We went in there and had a fireball shot.   I was gabbing to some poor guy named Tom.   He was watching football, this is the first football conversation I have had in months.   I decided to root for the Greenbay packers with only 2 minutes left in the game.  They were ahead and I was thinking I could get a cheesehead in Arizona where the superbowl will be played.   But, unfortunately, when I pick a team, they lose, and they did!  (Sorry Tom!!)
We headed out back, got on our horses and headed back to the Long Horn Saloon.  We ended our horseback riding for the day.  I gave my horse a big hug.  We went into the Longhorn,  listened to some country music the band was playing.
We left there and headed to get some much needed food at the Brick's River Cafe.   We then headed home.   We walked through the drive through beverage barn and into our RV.     We went to sleep right away.  I cannot handle a pub crawl anymore!