Sammy Does Dallas

Dallas Art Museum If you know me, you know that I love art and free stuff. Well on Thursdays, the Dallas Museum of Art is not only open past 5 pm, it's FREE!... So of course we went. First impressions are everything and ours just happened to be the lady who yelled at us for being where we shouldn't, touching what we shouldn't, and trying to go into a tuxedo only fund raiser in... well, not tuxedos. We did our best to regroup and shake it off. I have to tell you though that we didn't really go into the best wing after that to change our idea of the place. I think we wandered into the kindergarten art fair room aka modern art because it was just not great. I had no idea if this was going to be the whole thing or what... boy was I wrong. This place had 4 more floors and multiple wings of great art from around the world. It's a very impressive collection and there's something for everyone. We probably walked around for 3-4 hours taking it all in. Not too bad for free! Moral of the story is enter through the north entrance.

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Sports Complexes

On Friday, before we flew out, we stopped in Arlington to see the football and baseball stadiums. This area not only has the 2 sports complexes, it has a Six Flags, a pretty impressive kid's baseball field, a water park, a regular park with a pond and walking trail, and a Walmart. It all covers a huge area and is really a nice place. It has a weird Richfield (coliseum) feel to it since it's between Dallas and Fort Worth but they really do treat that metropolitan area as one big city.

Back in the day I went to the 1st regular season Cowboys game in AT&T Stadium. On that day we had to literally park in Mexico but when we got close, I was completely in awe of... well just the entire thing. It was truly something that everyone should visit and watch a game in. It looks like giant space ship that is in the middle of transforming into a robot turtle beast. Totally impressive just on sight alone. That being said, I was still as excited to go back and take some pictures of the place years later. Globe Life Park is pretty impressive too but nothing holds a candle to the house that Jerry Jones built.

Globe Life Park	AT&T Stadium

Well I'm home now and thank goodness for that. The upstairs apartment at our place apparently has people living in it now. Let's hope they aren't always as loud as they were tonight at 12:30 am. I'm sure I'll meet them soon and everything will be fine. I in no way see me banging on my ceiling like a crotchety old man yelling at them to pipe down...

If you don't have plans this weekend, make plans to go to the Tremont Greek Festival! Great food, dancing, and ouzo! Plus all the wonderfulness of my little neighborhood. I'll be there but who knows when since now I have a million and a half things to do this weekend and oh joy none of them are in Cleveland again.

PS. This may be a painting of the ugliest woman ever...

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I'm going to the big "D" and I do mean Dallas!

Greetings from Dallas, Texas! I'm here for a week doing some training for work. I do love Texas and I'm always happy to come for a visit especially when I don't have to pay for it.

5/18/14 - We got into Texas in the early afternoon which gave us a lot of time to walk around downtown and sightsee. I tried to take some pictures of things I haven't seen before and of some old favorites.

A plaque by where Kennedy was shot.	Dallas County Courthouse. My favorite building in Dallas.
John F Kennedy memorial.	Dallas Museum of Art.
A jewish wedding outside of the County Courthouse.	Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive.
A shot of downtown from what we called "Balls Park" in front of City Hall.	Some random window art downtown.
The Adolphus Hotel. My 2nd favorite building in Dallas.	I really liked this sign.
This is a random elevator that takes you underground to a fancy steakhouse.	Confederate War Memorial. It's weird to see it from the loser's side.

Klyde Warren Park is on the north side of downtown. This park brings together the 2 halves of the art's district that are separated by Rt 366. How do you ask? Well by being built over the highway of course! I have been saying for years that this should be done over I-90 through downtown. More parks are always good and not having a highway separating neighborhoods is twice as nice! It's like the neighborhood keeps on going. You can really even tell that a highway goes under it unless you're at either end. Check out how awesome they made this look:

The park entrance.	A walkway with some colorful picnic tables and chairs. They're still planting sod.
An outdoor restaurant with mostly patio seating.	Fountains to cool off the kiddies.
Green space.	More fountains.
Nicely landscaped.

So far the training has been OK. It's like school so whatever but it does give me a chance to experience lots of Dallas and sightsee. It's really unbelievable how many tall buildings are going up in the Dallas area. There are tall cranes in every direction. It really puts what Cleveland is doing into perspective... and when you compare, it's really not close. The Dallas area is booming and this is real booming. Is having a winter really that bad? I'm really trying to find that things that separates this city from home. My co-worker Eli keeps saying that people down here are so nice as compared to people at home. They are nice down here. 

Well I've got a few days left so I'll give you another update from Big "D" before I fly back. If you don't have plans this weekend, make plans to go to the Tremont Greek Festival! Great food, dancing, and ouzo! Plus all the wonderfulness of my little neighborhood. C-ya'll later! Hook'em Horns!

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