With Christmas and New Year's behind us, everyone feeling a bit better, it was then time for me to board a plane and head to Dallas on the 3rd for our company's annual meeting and 10 year Anniversary celebration.
I had meetings Thursday afternoon and Friday and Ben was flying out Friday afternoon to join us for the company/spouse dinner Friday night and then we got the option to stay and extra day and do whatever we wanted on Saturday.
Mom and Dad kept Bean and Ben and I decided to make the most of our time in Dallas! Neither of us had spent any time in the actual city (airport doesn't count!) so we had quite a few things on the list to accomplish in 1 day!
Saturday morning started out a little slow, a little too much bourbon for me the night before! But once we were up we just decided to rent a car for the day, that was going to be way cheaper than taking a taxi everywhere we wanted to go and there was a rental car place in our hotel, so a Toyota Camry was our chariot for the next 24 hours!
First was a trip up north of town to tour Southfork Ranch, the ranch that parts of the old and new Dallas were filmed at. It was fun to see the house, get the tour and take pictures of the very 1980's decor of big floral prints and more wallpaper than I think I've ever seen in one house!
After our tour of Southfork, it was lunch time, Ben was determined to get some famous Texas beef bbq, preferably something from one of the Food Network shows, so we settled on Sonny Bryan's and found the closest one and let the gps on my phone direct us there.
I am not a huge BBQ fan, or more just not a fan of BBQ sauce but I knew it was a big deal to Ben, so off we went. I got pulled chicken (new to me) and Ben got brisket and two types of smoked sausage. Needless to say that was some of the yummiest chicken I've ever had and one of their sauces was even really good. Ben said it was a spiritual moment for him, lol, needless to say it was good and we recommend Sonny Bryant's!
After that we wanted to hit up a western wear store. I found one I thought I'd heard of before, Pink's, so we tried it. Fine but didn't have enough jean options for what I was looking for so we decided to just head to Shepler's, we knew they had a ton. So I found some 38" inseam Wrangler's on sale and Ben found 2 pair of the Wrangler Khaki's in his size that I couldn't find again on the Shepler's website or Wrangler website, so we were both happy.
It was now late afternoon but we still had time to get to Dealey Plaza to go to the Sixth Floor Musuem which is the floor from the building that JFK was shot from. We drove downtown and easily found the plaza off Elm Street and made our way to the museum. They have a nice audio tour and it walks you through his election, the presidency and then the events of that day, the days after and then the conspiracy theories. Very interesting place. We also got the outdoor tour via your cell phone where you could get further details on all the buildings and plaza from an outside perspective. There's also "panhandlers" as I'll call them that like to corner you, give you their version of the story and then ask for $10. It was interested what the guy that talked to us about his theory, but not really $10 intersting, oh well, I know to avoid them next time, lol!
Now we were creeping up on 5:30 pm, so back to the hotel to freshen up and head to Ft Worth down to the old stockyard area. We wanted to try to go to Billy Bob's and find a good steakhouse.
Through some internet research we landed on H3 steakhouse there in the Stockyards and the only availble reservation was at 9:30 pm, so we got dressed and headed the 35 miles over there. It was a really neat atmosphere. There was a rodeo going on at the Cowboy Colliseum, horses were walking around, it smelled like a rodeo, a smell I love!
We wandered around, saw some of the sights, went in a few stores and got our very own Lone Star beer to walk around with. Finally around 9 I thought lets just go on to H3 and see if we can get in and they took us right back. Really yummy steak and nachos for an appitizer, def somewhere I'd go back to!
When we finished eating there we walked over to Billy Bobs, it was packed with a zillion people standing at the door. They were sold out for the night and we couldn't get in, so we walked by Billy Bobs! We tried. By that point i was tired and we just made our way back to the hotel, by the time we were back we had been sight seeing pretty much non stop for 13+ hours, I was ready for bed!
A pretty non eventful flight back to Nashville and it was back to Mom and Dad's to get Bean! I miss my munchkin!
We are also making more progress on the land. Logging was done in like 3 days and then we got a guy to come in and dig up and bury stumps and pile/clear all the area where the house is going to sit, so now we have a probalby 30 foot tile pile of limbs that needs to be burned before we can even think about getting started! Hopefully that will happen sometime in the next month or so.
I'm also putting together a conceal carry class for just women in the area. It started out being for a few freinds and family and has grown into 40 women taking the class on Jan 26th, should be fun! Don't mess with Todd County Women : )
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