Valentine’s Day 2015 was a warm and sunny day. It’s not very often that warm weather is felt during February, but it was a beautiful Texas day. My husband asked if I wanted to head over to Home Depot for home improvement projects or go on a road trip. With the beautiful weather, I chose the road trip option. After getting our son situated in the car seat, we decided to make the journey down to Waco.
Since I have never been to Waco, I wanted to head down to visit Magnolia Market, which is owned by the stars of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper.” Magnolia Market offers many rustic decorations for the home, and I wanted to add something that emphasized the South and Texas within our home. While I loved a chandelier that was in the store and with a four month old having a meltdown, I decided to pass on purchasing anything.
After our visit, my husband wanted to visit the Dr. Pepper Museum to learn more about the soft drink’s history and to enjoy something from their soda fountain. Once we got there, we found out we were too late for the tour of the museum. However, we decided to have Dr. Pepper floats from the soda fountain instead. The Dr. Pepper float featured Texas’ own Blue Bell ice cream and soda water that had the Dr. Pepper syrup straight from the pump. It was really refreshing on such a warm day. Even our four month old was fascinated by the truck outside the museum. Of course, we decided to pose for a picture. Hopefully, we will be back for a tour of the museum in the near future.
Once we were finished with our Dr. Pepper floats, we decided to head back towards Fort Worth. My husband mentioned that we passed West, Texas along the way. West, Texas is known for Westfest, which is a Czech Polka festival held every year during Labor Day weekend. This community along I-35 is a culinary dream, as there are several restaurants along the Main Street corridor and two bakeries along the highway featuring kolaches, which are pastries filled with fruit or meat filling. We made our first stop at Czech Stop, where we purchased a loaf of Beer Bread and several kolaches (one was a Blueberry Cream Cheese, Very Berry, Pulled Pork, and Sausage and Cheese). We also stopped at Slovacek’s Market, where we picked up some more kolaches, which were Boudin and a Sauerkraut filling. On our way out of the market, I caught glimpse of a gorgeous sunset which really added to the beautiful day.
I don’t know about you, but there is something spectacular about a Texas sunset. It is truly a beautiful sight to enjoy, which really was the icing on the Valentine’s Day trip.
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