Happy Birthday Titus. 13 years ago the Lord blessed us with Titus. We toured the town today and he had a special lunch with his favorites-pizza and cheese burgers with fries. He was very happy. Cake and ice cream is on the menu after dinner tonight. (Pics tomorrow).
We are in Dodge City. It is a windy, dusty, fly-infested town. I am not kidding; the wind has not stopped all day and every time we sit down in an area that not a single fly can be seen BAM a fly appears, then hundred....see the last picture.
We also visited a park to eat our lunch. Though Dodge is an old town where, over time, folks have built and added and connected newer parts of town, only to let them grow old and build on further, it has it's charm. It reminds me of Barstow, CA in some ways. It has a desert feel to it.
These things are constant here: wind, dust, flies, and cops. There have been bust going on all over the town. Unrelated, but part of the town is that most of the town is Hispanic. Most of the stores downtown are closed or now some type of Hispanic store. 
The kids have enjoyed their stay regardless of the wind and stuff. They even took time to build a sand-dirt castle on the lake beach. 
Miles fell in love with Miss Kitty. Remember Gunsmoke? Well, this is Dodge!
James tries on a squaw hairpiece.
Folks of TV, film and reality have all earned a place on the walk of fame...kind of like the stars in Hollywood. But here it is medallions. If you were famous and did anything related to Dodge you have a medallion.
James performs at the Historic Doge Theater built in 1929. This was an interest to us. Eddie Foy performed in Dodge many times. Sadly most of the wood building from that era burned down in the 1890s so there is nothing left of anything from the old cowboy era except the church, the blacksmith shop and the jail from Ft Dodge at the Boot Hill Museum.
We found and bought this post card.
Flies anyone. They are everywhere.
Boot Hill...it was only a cemetery for 8 years or so but it is the most famous cemetery in the US. Sadly the whole area once known as Boot Hill has been built over with a replica of the old main street (Front Street) and an Applebee's. That's right the cemetery has been dug up and built into a tourist trap. There is a small section still available to see, for a fee. But the graveyard is now a fake ghost town...even has a gift shop with all kinds of trinkets built by cowboys and Indians in China. 
There was a cool train engine we could crawl over, and we did.
There was a cool train engine we could crawl over, and we did.
Miles fell in love with Miss Kitty. Remember Gunsmoke? Well, this is Dodge!
James tries on a squaw hairpiece.
Folks of TV, film and reality have all earned a place on the walk of fame...kind of like the stars in Hollywood. But here it is medallions. If you were famous and did anything related to Dodge you have a medallion.
James performs at the Historic Doge Theater built in 1929. This was an interest to us. Eddie Foy performed in Dodge many times. Sadly most of the wood building from that era burned down in the 1890s so there is nothing left of anything from the old cowboy era except the church, the blacksmith shop and the jail from Ft Dodge at the Boot Hill Museum.
We found and bought this post card.
Ain't it the truth.
Flies anyone. They are everywhere.
We ate our lunch at a park in town that is very new and nice. It has an amphitheater and a zoo. The zoo was even free, so we went. Buffalo, tigers, monkeys, potbelly pig, llama, and more. It was a very nice day...
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