Texas : FireWheel Market

(More pictures here -> )Firewheel market was supposedly an outdoor shopping area according to some of the colleagues here, but when we reached the place it wasnt as expected ( think pasar malam). Anyway we had a hard time going there coz it's quite far out and we didn't have a detailed map to follow. But trust me, coming back was a nightmare!!!

Reached there at 130pm and walked around the place, nothing much I would wanna buy because my luggage is going to be so full from adding shoes I need to buy for my Dad and ah gong. I just walked around and found a Clarks shoe store. Damn when I asked the sales assistant about their shoes sizes, she told me it's inconsistent. A 8US feet would have fitted nicely in a 7.5US Clarks. That explains my Ronald Macdonald's 9.5US Clarks shoe I bought from Amazon. Now I have to find someone to sell/give away.

At around 4 pm I think I have covered everything I am going to see, so I went back to the bookstore and sat down to read a book on 'Forex: 6 ways to trade the money". I guess it was much better than walking around with no aim to buy anything. The book was interesting but I think it's written by some guy who is trying to promote his company at the same time. So there was lots of sales pitch inside the book.

We met at 6pm, ( we split up to do our own shopping) and went to TGIFriday for dinner. Wanted to experience more dining in US before going back. ( Been eating rice and TV dinners most of the time). I ordered a ribeye steak medium-well, but it was kinda well-done in my opinion. Anyway that meal set me back by USD$21.

On our way back, we met the tollbooth from hell. In order to leave a tollway, you have to stop beside an automated tollbooth and pay 40 cents. We didn't have 40 cents so we gave the greedy machine 45 cents. It didn't allowed passage. So we thought the booth was spoilt and reversed into another booth. There wasn't much car coming through that exit so we could reverse. Then we still didn't have exact 40 cents so I think we gave it 50 cents. But it still didn't open, and we kept feeding it $$, think we spent around $2 dollars feeding this booth but still it didn't open. Other cars were coming into our previous booth and they all got passed. Hey does the booth recognise Americians?! Damn, we finally decided not to exit and made a 50m reverse back onto the main highway , kinda dangerous the way u see our car go reversing in a zig zag route.