Dallas Adventures

Karen and I had scouted out a coffee place with a few breakfast items when we first arrived and this place we had discovered was our first stop of the day!  Was the coffee good???  It was excellent!!  Breakfast was easy and fast there too and I knew we'd be back!!

We took an Uber ride to our next stop - pretty neat how you order up a car and it arrives in just a minute or two!  I had never used it before but 2 of the girls had and between Lyft and Uber, we took many rides!  Our next destination was the Sixth Street Museum - Karen's sister-in-law manages the gift shops and was there to greet us with free entrance tickets!  Always nice to walk around the long line and get right in!

Each person is equipped with head phones and a phone and you walk around to different stations and listen to the commentary.  It was an emotional museum and reminded me somewhat of the 9/11 museum.  It's an outstanding museum and if you ever get to Dallas, take the tour - it's well worth it!

Even though it was chilly out, we decided to walk to Pioneer Plaza to see the 49 longhorn cattle being herded by 3 cowboys on horses!

We were totally amazed at the detail of these life size sculptures!

 This plaza depicts the trails that brought the first settlers to Dallas.  The sculptures are believed to be the largest bronze sculptures of their type in the world!

After stopping back at our "coffee" place for smoothies, we also ate a bite of lunch and headed back to the apartment to unwind and relax!

Dinner that night was to be BBQ - there are 2 famous places in town and we decided to go to the one that was quite far - we ordered Uber and when we arrived, found that the place was closed for a private party that night.................we walked around the cute area for a while and then called Uber again and decided to go ahead and do fish.  We had seen a place uptown called Hook, Line and Sinker that looked great so we headed there!  I loved the old boat motors outside used for decorations!

The place was packed so we knew the food must be good and we weren't disappointed!!  I had cold shrimp on the shell along with hush puppies and fresh lemonade - delicious!!

After heading back to our part of town, we walked to Frankie's which is a bar and luckily enough they had music playing!!  We were so full from eating that we couldn't even order drinks but the waitress was nice enough to bring us waters and we enjoyed listening to fun music!!  The guy singing and playing his guitar was heading further south the next couple of days to audition for "The Voice"!  It must be for next season as this season starts soon - so will have to watch for him and see if he makes it on TV!

What a great day and a fun evening with friends!!