Enchanted Ranch

One of the main reasons for going to Texas was for cowboys...I know that sounds funny and no I wasn't looking for cowboys, but the boys were! They have been into cowboys and horses for a long while now and thought Texas was all about them! Knowing this, Mom found The Enchanted Ranch.


The Enchanted Ranch is a real life ranch that has the cowboy/Texas feel. It has been used for many movies and Oprah voted it as one of the best places for families (although I am not really sure why!).


The feel of this place was good, it felt like I was in another world...the cowboy world!

We were doing the dinner show and were told to not come before 5, but I wish we had gotten there earlier so we could explore a little more.

Tapanga got a bloody nose just as we pulled into the ranch, I am not sure what started it, but she got blood all over her! She ended up with a new shirt because of this and it took some of our time away, but she was ready to go once it stopped.

When we first arrived they had a horse and bull for the kids to ride/sit on.

We jumped on one of the last wagon rides to check out the land and saw many of the same animals we saw at the safari!

After riding the wagon ride, we went to eat. The food wasn't all that spectacular, but we had a good time listening to the singer and Tapanga did a cute little dance!

After, eating dinner it was time to head out to the show!

There was a group of old lady tourists from Chicago and a few other families, but not many other kids. One part of the show had the gun twirler pick a couple kids from the audience for a game, and Tanner got picked! He didn't want to at first because she had a gun!

Actually, this brings us to a funny part...the gun lady actually scared me! Her stunts with the horse didn't work out as planned and then shes all twirling the guns and trying to shoot balloons, but didn't actually shoot the balloons on the first try...it was scary! She says, "They are blanks, but they still hurt if you get shot with one!" Excuse me? :)

Back to Tanner...so he got picked for the game and he is up against another 5 year old (she is much bigger than Tanner!).

The object of the game was to be the pony express...he had to ride his horse around the barrels and pick up his mail sack, then he had to bring the mail back to the starting point.Off they go...

Tanner won, great job!

Another audience participation game came up and the person choosing the contestants came to our area looking for a participant...well we tried to get Grandpa at first, but then realized the birthday girl should participate and so Christi got chosen to pick up poo! She also won!

After riding the wagon ride, I had seen a sign about arresting someone in your party and thought, won't that be funny? So, we had Grandpa arrested!

In order to get out of trouble he had to preform "I'm a little teapot" in front of everyone!After the show we let the kids play in the kid area for a minute. The kid area was pretty neat, it had playhouses for the kids to pretend in and a play set to play on.

We couldn't go without petting the horse again!

After claiming our prizes at the gift shop we were one of the last to head out. We lucked out by getting one last pony ride! The ranch was a little bit hokey, but the kids had fun which was the most important thing, because this was for them!