Dallas Things To Do
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Dallas Things To Do #1:The city of Dallas puts on lots of different events that make great vacation activities. Here are a few suggestions depending on the time of year that you are planning your Dallas vacation trip.

In the spring there’s the Prairie Dog Chili Cookoff held at Traders Village. Enjoy true Texas-style chili tasting. A popular and fun highlight is the Quail Egg-Eating World Championship.
Come summer, it’s time for the Texas International Blues Festival where you can sit back and relax for two full days of music featuring blues musicians from across the country.
The State Fair of Texas is a longtime autumn tradition. This is a big event that runs for about two weeks at the end of September with all the food, fun and rides that you would expect from Texas state fair.
A Texas vacation during the winter holidays should definitely include a visit to the Trains at NorthPark exhibit. Kids and train lovers especially will really enjoy this traditional display of toy trains at the NorthPark Center Mall.

Vacation Ideas: Dallas Things To Do #2:Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District is part of the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex. This is the place to go if you really want to get taste of the Texas cattle ranch culture. For a long time, the stockyards were the destination of the rancher’s cattle herds. Now there are still livestock pens but the area is mostly a shrine to the western cowboy way of life.

There are cowboy museums, genuine western shops, a rodeo arena, Wild West saloons and lots of historical buildings in the tradition of the old west. Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District is two miles from downtown Fort Worth. This is a prime cultural attraction in the Dallas - Fort Worth area so plan to spend some of your Texas vacation soaking up the real spirit of the old west.

Cool Dallas Things To Do #3:You can see over 23,000 works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art. This is a world class museum and the star of the Museum District which helps makes Dallas an excellent cultural vacation idea. The museum has an art collection from Europe, Africa, Asia and around the world. View prehistoric Latin-American ceramics or work by famous artists like Van Gogh, Gauguin and Monet including paintings, sketches and drawings. The works cover many eras from the ancient to modern times. There's an outdoor sculpture garden, a re-created six-room Mediterranean villa, outdoor music performances, two restaurants and a Museum Store.

Vacation Ideas: Dallas Things To Do #4:The Dallas World Aquarium is a great vacation spot for the whole family when visiting Dallas. It's not just an aquarium because it also has many animals that you would normally see in a zoo. The Orinoco - Secrets of the River rainforest exhibit features birds and animals native to the rainforest environment and includes a 40-foot waterfall. A colony of Black-footed penguins shares the South Africa exhibit with turtles, frogs and other animals from the area. You can see all kinds of birds at the Mundo Maya exhibit such as hummingbirds, storks and eagles.

Then, of course, there are the aquariums. The largest one, Continental Shelf tunnel, gives you a great panoramic view of a coral reef and the marine creatures that live there. The Dragons from Down aquarium has an underwater camera that gives you a close-up look at Leafy seadragons and other marine life. Ten more smaller aquariums feature a variety of fish from around the world.

Vacation Ideas: Dallas Things To Do #5:An excellent vacation idea activity in Dallas is the Mesquite Championship Rodeo. It's held in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite which is only about 15 minutes east of the downtown area. The Mesquite Championship Rodeo is a world-class rodeo with top performers in the sport competing against each other. This is a fun event for the whole family with all the traditional exciting rodeo events likebull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, cowgirl barrel racing and chuckwagon races.

They also have kids events like the Mutton Bustin' where kids can enter a drawing to be one of eight contestants who will see how long they can ride an actual sheep. Kids can also participate in the Calf Scramble where several calves are set loose in the arena and the kids all scramble around trying to catch them. Sounds like a lot of fun.

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