Saturday, February 27, 2010

Travel Time - Dallas, Texas!

Last weekend was an opportune time for a vacation, off to Dallas my wife and I went, to visit old friends. Our pre-trip questions were, what is there to do in Dallas? When we told our colleagues and friends about our trip to Dallas, they wondered the same thing ... we would just say 'short trip to visit friends'. So what did we do? Our 4 days there can mostly be compiled into one post, the foodstuffs will deserve a separate post. So here is what we did:

Dallas a week before we left had 1 foot of snow fall upon them, but on our visit there, there was no more snow to play in. Here is an outdoor view of the AA arena, the Mavs play here ... I think.

The Reunion Tower from afar:

Our first stop was Dealey Plaza, the famous plaza where JFK was assassinated. Along those lines, we went to the JFK museum, the Sixth Floor Museum. A little pricey for what we saw, but overall a good experience, and for you conspiracy theorists, a good visit to fuel your fire.

Later that night, we went out with our friends' to one of the best steakhouses in America, per some magazine, Pappas Brothers. That review will be on the separate Dallas foodies page upcoming.

The next day, we visited the Beverly Hills of Dallas, Highland Park. The high-end shops were there along with mansions galore.

That night, lunch was a get together with my wife's old high school friends .... I will call it the Joy Luck Club! It was a bunch of wives taking care of their young kids getting together for lunch. Boy was I out of place! For dinner, the friends we were staying with cooked empal (very spicy style). Yummy! Afterwards we shot hoops with the Indo Boys at Prestonwood church. If you thought California megachurches were large, this was something else. A gym with fitness area, multiple ellipticals, weights, and a gymnasium with three full courts for basketball.

Day 3 in Dallas, went to Pappadeaux with one of my old friends and hung out with him the rest of the day. We went to the Fort Worth Stockyards:


I am sure plenty of comments and jokes can come from this sign ....

I tried to take one of these:

and I ended up here:

Here is the famous maze from Amazing Race 5:

Dinner was at Magic Time Machine.

The next day, before taking off back to LA, we went to First Chinese BBQ Restaurant, a taste of home (Los Angeles), kind of. Then back to LA we traveled.

Tune in tomorrow for the Dallas Foodie Review!

Thanks to our gracious hosts, you are a beautiful couple and soon to be +1! Good luck and best wishes. Thanks to my old friends for showing us a wonderful time, we'll miss you all and hopefully can do this again sometime.