Adventureland- Dallas edition

Dallas! You grew on me a bit!



sent to my sweet HP!



Even though I started off a little grumpy towards
the Lone star State, I ended up having an overall enjoyable experience. Yay!

Okay, if I could redo one part it might be the hotel- I almost got stuck on the one working elevator twice. When I mentioned it to the front desk they said "yeah, it's kind of funny". Yes. Yes it is.

I ended up really using the rental car, which I hadn't anticipated. Although I only drove 70 miles in the 3 days I was here I found it really helpful navigating around the complicated roads/trains/elevated onramps.

The West End area

I found some delicious meals. I ate breakfast for dinner at Ellen's Southern Kitchen, got chatted up (in a totally non-creepy way) by an ex-patriot from Japan, and walked around downtown Dallas.





Embarrassingly I was looking for the infamous 'grassy knoll' and well...it was right by my hotel. Not until I noticed a bunch of people walking through and around this monument did I actually read the placard.

That is one big memorial.













Opening Bell Coffee Concert

 I surprised myself by going to the yummy cafe, which I hit up in the morning, to grab a beer and listen to a guitar concert. The artist was from Lansing, how about that?

Little steps of bravery :)

So now I sit here at DFW airport waiting for my plane homeward. I plan to scoop up little HP immediately. It has been a long time apart for me. The longest I've ever been I think.

The good thing is, I have 3 weeks to stick around home base before heading out to NYC. Woohoo!