I bet you all thought I fell off the face of the earth, huh? Nope! Just been busy, too lazy to blog, and now am in Texas.
I flew out to Dallas yesterday. I flew alone, as Heather and B were already in Texas. They left the day before to go to Houston for a baseball game.
So, as I was at MSP airport I was standing in line with soccer players in front and in back of me. Looking around, I started to wonder why the heck I'm not a soccer fan. Holy hotness. Once I got to my gate and took a seat, I had to text my new revelation to Heather. It went something like this "I'm at the gate with a pro soccer team. Hotness. Why have I never followed soccer in the past?!?" Her simple reply was "Hello! Dirty Hot David Beckham! You knew soccer players were hot." This reply cracked me up so I text back "Well, I didn't realize he was the norm for soccer players! Also, there is one reading a book about letters from prison. He may be my soul mate!!" This cracked Heather up, as it's something only someone who knows me would "get". Sadly though, the soccer players were not on my flight.
So...I landed in Texas and after a few issues getting my luggage and the bus to the rental car place we were finally on the way to our hotel. Little did we know, the Ranger's Ballpark is located in a ghetto-type area. While it's a little freaky I've gotten over it. The thing that I haven't quite gotten over is the alcohol situation here. We went to Wal Mart and noted they only sell beer and wine. I asked a girl working where the closest liquor store is. She told me she couldn't give directions...so luckily some girl that was walking by stopped. She told me "oh, you have to go to Fort Worth because this is a dry county." I was baffled by this and said "Wait...there's beer and wine here." She said "yep, that's why it's dry." Ok..still not fully getting this statement I said "So in Texas a place is considered 'dry' if it only has beer and wine?!?" She said "Yep!" Ok...is it me or is that the oddest thing ever?!? So...I was off to the county line to grab some alcohol:)
Later that night we went out for supper. While we were out a wicked storm moved into Arlington. There was some really wicked lightning and Heather noted to B "well, I don't suppose the chances of you getting struck by lightning twice is that good!" (yes, B has been hit by lightning...in her car) I replied "Actually, I think that you're more likely to get struck or something like that!" Just after I said that, a HUGE bolt of lightning struck close, there was a huge boom, and the lights went out. I think B and Heather almost had heart attacks. Of course, I fell over giggling in the back seat.
So, on to today. We were woken up by yapping dogs, loud door banging, and a woman yelling "let me in!!" across the hall. Ugg. I told B and Heather "you've GOT to be kidding me!" I opened the door to find a man and a woman in the hall. The woman had a big blonde bouffant hair style and a hot pink cocktail dress on. Quite honestly, I'm not so she that she's not a working girl and that the guy is her pimp. I didn't say a word, just looked at them. She apologized and I turned around to shut the door and the guy goes "Hey, how's it goin'?" I said "Sleepy" and turned to close the door. I told B and Heather, "Yeah, I'm thinking that's a working girl and pimp out there." Heather replies "Did he offer you a job because you look HOT!" and cracked up. I then looked in the mirror to note that I had eyeliner and mascara smeared on my face and under my eyes and I looked tired as hell. I cracked up at this thought...cuz really, I was a fright. Even the hot pink cocktail dress wearing that was missing her front tooth was hotter than me at that point in time!
So..onto our sightseeing for the day! The pictures on this post are from today's trip to "Southfork Ranch" aka the ranch on the show Dallas. Remember how huge the house was on the show? Um, yeah...totally not the case in real life. It's not big at all. I told the girls "Ooh...I bet die hard Dallas fans come here and are all pissed off because it's nothing like on the show! Those dirty Hollywood producers!" This thought was only highlighted by the pool. The pool, that looked like a huge Olympic sized pool on the show, is 20'x 40' and only 8 feet deep! The tour guide told us that they put a huge mirror on the end of the pool and used a wide angle lens to make it look so big and then put a clear harness around "Bobby" and made him swim almost to the end and then would yank him back over and over for the scenes. The thought of this cracked me up! Plus, my coworker told me "Be sure to get pictures of that huge pool!" I can't wait to show her the pics. She's going to crack up!
Oh, also...on the pics. The "stud barn" was a total let down. What a misleading sign:)
HERE is Heather's post from tonight, which tells her tales of our Texas trip thus far.
