I slept most of the trip Friday because I have been having lots of insomnia, not sure why, I have never had problems sleeping. So, we arrived to Texas and stopped at the Texas welcome center. I have been through Texas before, but just the panhandle when I was 15 on my way to New Mexico with my youth group on a mission trip. William went to Dallas with Wal-Mart in 2005 for a class. This was my first real experience and I was very excited.
After leaving the welcome center we proceeded to Allen, TX to the outlet mall. OH MY! They were fabulous! I had scoped them out online before leaving because I needed new Crocs for our trip to the water park on Saturday.
So, we shopped a little and went to find lunch. I have heard and seen a place in Joplin called Cheddar's and a saw a sign for one in Allen, so we went there for lunch. It was YUMMY, and cheap! After lunch we went back to the outlet mall to a few more stores and then headed for Dallas. We couldn't check into our room until 3pm, so we were trying to stall.
After checking into our hotel room, we settled in, looked at Jack online and decided to head over to the NorthPark Mall, it was less than a mile from our hotel. OMG, the first mall I have ever been to that has Valet Parking. We parked and hiked it up to the mall, it was gorgeous. I enjoyed it, we went into Tiffany & Co. and I showed William what I want for graduation, all I can say is it costs as much as my wedding ring... So after walking around the mall one time we went into Dillard's to look for some Black Mary Jane's, well I didn't find black, but I do love Pink so I got these:
for only $20, the retail on the Crocs website for $35 and that's how much they were at the Crocs outlet.
After that lovely purchase we proceeded to dinner at PF Chang's. I have been there before but William hasn't. Turns out he liked it!
After leaving the mall we went to Speed Zone, we so need one of these in NWA. They had 3 different go-cart tracks and then a dragster race straight away. LOVE IT!
William did really well, won 4 out of the 5 races he was in.
Saturday we went to Hurricane Harbor in Arlington, TX. We got to see the Baseball stadium, and the new football stadium from a distance. We didn't stay at the water park long. I had a headache from not wearing my glasses as well as I was a lobster after being there only 2 hours.
We went to our hotel and prepared to tour the city. We ate lunch at Chipotle, really good Mexican place that is all over Dallas. We went to the Sam Moon stores, OMG. They are fabulous! There is a store called June Lee's in Memphis and Sam Moon is like 10X bigger! Same kind of stuff. After that wonderful experience we headed to the Galleria, William had prewarned me that I may not like it but being a girl I still wanted to go. We did, I liked how big it was, but didn't like the fact that there were no stores for big girls. They didn't even have a Lane Bryant, I would have been happy with just that. That's ok though.
After leaving the mall we headed back to our hotel and walked about a 1/4 of a mile to the train station. We were headed downtown to see what we could find.
Being from Memphis I was looking for something remotely close to Beale St, that's a negative. I enjoyed the experience though. We are dinner at Sonny Bryan's in downtown, claimed to be the best in Dallas. It was good, just doesn't compare to Memphis style BBQ. After walking around downtown we caught the train back to Mockingbird Station by our hotel. There was a new mall that had just opened calling Mockingbird Station at the top of where we got off the train. We walked around it a bit, but it was too late and all the stores were closed.
We went back to our hotel and I swam in the heated pool for a while, while William watched some Basketball in the lobby.
Sunday we had planned on going to the Dallas Zoo, but it was suppose to rain so change of plans, we were going to go to the Aquarium but one was being remodelded and the other was quiet expensive, so, we decided to go to the Sixth Floor Museum.
We caught the train once again to downtown. I didn't mind the train at all. It was very interesting.
If you are ever in Dallas you should definitly go through the museum. I learned more in the 2 hours we were there than I think I did in any history class I ever took in school.
After catching the train back to Mockingbird staion we were on our way back to Arkansas.
We had seen a Cheesecake Facotry on the way to Dallas in Allen so we had already decided that's where we were going. We missed our exit and had to look back, but it was well worth it. FABULOUS! We had never been there before. We thought about it last year for out anniversary when we were in Tulsa but decided not to.
After indugling in delicious cheesecake, we set off to our last trip to the outlet malls before we headed home. I had seen a shirt in Lane Bryant that I wanted on the way down but knew it would be there on the way back so we stopped in there. We were walking from Lane Bryant to the Crocs store and ended up buying William a suit. WOW! Unexpected. We had been planning on doing something since we have a wedding to go to in June and his 10 year reunion in July. It was really CHEAP!
So, we preceded to the Crocs store and bought me a pair or Crocs and then hit the road.
We got home last night around 9. It was fun and tiring!
Today was a good lazy day, we bought William some nice dress shoes to go with his new suit at Rack Room and I got everything priced for my garage sale and have been blogging since 8....wow, I got alot done!!!
This will be a busy week, I am heading up Orientation for the incoming Access nursing class(15 month program) and that is on Thursday and then my garage sale is on Friday and Saturday.
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