First of all....Happy Birthday Georgeanne!
We took Gai & John to the airport in Dallas which allowed us to make plans for a day in the city. We first met up with one our son's college friends for lunch. Wilson and I looked forward to seeing Skaras while in Dallas. We had lunch at the Pecan Lodge, which according to Skaras has the best brisket in Dallas. They regularly have lines waiting to get in and have been highlighted on the Food Network show Diners, Drivc-ins, & Dives. The restaurant is located in the neighborhood of E. Dallas called Deep Ellum. This area is composed largely of arts and entertainment venues. Below you can find photos of me me waiting in line :), Deep Ellum signage, and Wilson, Skaras, & Wilson a parking meter station....don't ask...ok, I'll tell you - The parking lots state that you need to prepay. In New Orleans one could prepay via the internet, so we thought that was what prepay meant...of course it didn't, it just meant that you park then enter your space into the meter and pay for however long you wanted to have it....all day for $5...cheap, cheap, cheap (slightly more expense as you get closer to the heart of the city)....of course it took Skaras to explain this to us, as we originally parked at a street meter which was $0.25/half hour - you can see that it was much more economical to park in a lot...I'm not sure that I like admitting that little piece or not :) -- Of course, this doesn't explain why the phot is upside down....
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After lunch Wilson and I walked downtown to Dealy Plaza with Skaras. Once here, Skaras left us to our own devices. We spent a couple hours at the Sixth Floor Museum located in the famous book depository building where Lee Harvey Oswald is said to have shot President John F. Kennedy (admission $16/adult, $14/senior) - http://www.jfk.org/ ....The museum is self-guided with the use of a recorded headset combination. It's filled with many artifacts, pictures, videos, narratives, etc. If you have any interest in the assignation of JFK, this is definitely a must see. It gives a different perspective not only of the tragedy that unfolded here, but of the landscape of it all. For example, the grassy knoll is much closer to the actual site than I thought and is definitely smaller than I envisioned.
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| JFK Museum at the Book Depository |
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| 6th Floor - Check out the window, it's open just as it was found on November 22, 1963 |
A couple more pictures of downtown Dallas....what is the giant eyeball all about? We just wandered upon it...but I looked it up online and apparently it's just a whimsical piece of art from artist Tony Tasset. It's modeled after his own bloodshot eye and beyond that has no other significance other than he wanted to make something awesome!
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