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Cabela's
is a great outdoor store. Many of you may think this is
just an outdoor store, but it is a huge showroom of
educational and entertainment attraction. Anyone can spend
several hours in the enormous 230,000 sq. ft.
showroom. It has a museum , an artificial mountain, a rock
climbing wall, an aquarium filled with native fish, an
arcade, and a restaurant. I love outdoor store, animals
and sports activities. I have wanted to go ever since I
saw it in the news. Finally, one Sunday we decided to go
to Cabela's . It is located near the state highway 170 and
I-35 W. It took forty-five minutes to get there.
When
we got there, I was so excited. Right in front of the
store was bronze statue of a cowboy. When first went in I
saw the mountain. The mountain was cover a hundred or so
stuffed taxidermy animals. On it was a small stream going
down to the foot of the mountain. At the bottom of the
huge indoor mountain was a coldwater pool filled with
average sized salmon. In the pool of salmon not only there
were regular salmon, but as well mutant varieties. Some of
the mutated salmon were white, yellow and blue. We then
strode over to aquarium. The aquarium had some interesting
fish as well. There were gigantic catfish, the size of an
average seven year old.
There
was huge award winning bass swimming around there were
driftwood homes. There was a large alligator snapping turtle
in a different tank from the rest of the fish. There also
was trout. carp , pike, muskellunge, sunfish and perch.
When we got out of the aquarium we went to the fishing
area. There was a myriad of fishing poles, gears, tackles,
lures and baits. There even was primitive fishing gear,
such as bamboo poles, fish traps, casting nets, gigs,
gaffs and barbed spears. There was fishing bows. As we
passed a counter I saw squirming buckets of slimy bait. We
then went to hunting section, which has the mounted heads
and bodies of deer, antelope, buffalo, bison, mountain goats
hippos, and boars. Also on display were the guns and bows
that were used to take them down. As we walked by we saw a
brief history of hunting. It was called stones to
guns.
We
then decided to go to the marine section. On the way o the
marine section was a life sized diorama of an African
savannah. The diorama has lions and that were stuffed and
they were real lions. The diorama also had zebra, hippos,
crocs, deer and an elephant. All of the were stuffed of
course except the elephant that was definitely a fake.
When we went in the marine section we saw a display of
boats.
There
were portable boats, sail boats, inflatable boats, bass
boats and john boats all on display. We then went
upstairs. Upstairs was a room furnished by strange outdoor
-related furniture. There were rug made from the hide of
sheep and bears. There were chairs and stools made from
branches of trees twisted by the sun, rain, wind and ice.
There were sofas with lions, tigers, elephants and deer on
them. As we walked from the room I saw the restaurant. I
then looked down on the mountain. I know saw that the
mountain, instead of only having a mountainside also had
tundra, forest and a desert. We then walked down camping
section . We started looking in the test. Only then I
noticed the shooting arcade. The store was closing so may
parents forced me to go home. I reluctantly went. I hope I
can come again soon.
This
picture shows that Cabela's also helps conserve game in
spite of supporting hunting. The do this so there will be
more animals to hunt. They support a number of animal
preservation and conservation organizations.
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