Taxiing around Texas

We spent a leisure morning trying to just recoup--we even had room service on the house (due to last night's mishap.)

We got into Texas around 4:00. As we drove we enjoyed the wide expanse of the sky with the cumulus clouds--a sight we don't get to enjoy much in California.

The highway system is much different than California. There are long frontage roads along the freeway that only go one way- which makes it very difficult to navigate to a store or restaurant that you pass on the freeway and want to get to.The lanes on the freeway are also more narrow--which means you really need to concentrate on the road.

Downtown Dallas is beautiful. There are many interesting shaped buildings. It looks more modern than downtown Los Angeles.

We took Brandon and Veronika to dinner at a local Bar B Q. It looks like a hole in the wall but the food is very good.

We then took off to pick up Kiersten, Nick, and Alijah at the airport. Dallas airport is much larger than LAX. It is also much more confusing. They were taking American--which comes in at three different terminals in different parts of the airport each of which required a maze to get to it. After a long phone call listening to automated voices saying push this button and now that button we finally learned that we were to go to terminal D. Kiersten Nick and Alijah arrived safely but they were very hungry. So we told them we would take them to dinner.

Nick borrowed his cousin Tory's GPS and tried to use it to find us a TGIF restaurant. Well we drove and drove and drove into a black nowhere until the GPS told us that we arrived. Frustrated, Nick called the nearest TGIF and discovered that it was inside the airport!

Well, we drove some more and because the frontage roads are so hard to navigate we got off at a street that barely had anything on it. We did see a Mexican restaurant so we decided to eat there.

Well, basically we were the only whites in the restaurant and the whole menu was in Spanish--not just the entrees--but the description of the entrees and everything else written on the menu.

The food actually was very good.

We managed to find our way back to the hotel--but as we got out of the truck we were greeted by huge crickets--something that Kiersten definitely is going to have to get used to if she wants to live here.