October 27-29 Dale & I took a quick trip to Dallas with Pat & Rey to watch BYU play TCU at Cowboys Stadium. The guys wanted to experience this amazing stadium and the girls just went along to keep them in line!! Dallas is the 3rd largest city in Texas and the 9th largest in the United States. We stayed in Arlington, within walking distance of Six Flags, Rangers Ballpark and the Stadium. The Rangers were playing in the World Series while we were there (too bad it wasn't in Dallas)...
We had some time before we could check in, so we drove into the downtown area just to look around and ended up here:
The Dallas World Aquarium was amazing. It's located in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas. The upper level is an artificial reproduction of the Orinoco Rainforest, where we saw three-toed sloths, crocodiles, lots of birds, and vampire bats. The lower level houses aquariums featuring fish and other sea animals from around the world. I wasn't very impressed with downtown Dallas, but we were glad we took the time to visit the aquarium! That night we had dinner at Kirby's Prime Steakhouse in Southlake-it was delicious!
Friday, was a beautiful sunny day. We spent some time at Southlake Town Square, which is home to 250 stores and 120 restaurants! That night we ate at a Texas BBQ place before we walked to Cowboys Stadium for the big game...
Cowboys Stadium was unbelievable! This domed stadium with a retractable roof was built in 2009. The stadium seats 80,000 and is the largest domed stadium in the world. The high definition video screen hangs from the 20 yard line to the 20 yard line-gigantic! Originally estimated to cost $650 million, the construction cost ended up being $1.3 billion. BYU didn't win the game, but it was fun to experience the game sitting on 6th row-50 yard line...
We had some time before we could check in, so we drove into the downtown area just to look around and ended up here:
The Dallas World Aquarium was amazing. It's located in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas. The upper level is an artificial reproduction of the Orinoco Rainforest, where we saw three-toed sloths, crocodiles, lots of birds, and vampire bats. The lower level houses aquariums featuring fish and other sea animals from around the world. I wasn't very impressed with downtown Dallas, but we were glad we took the time to visit the aquarium! That night we had dinner at Kirby's Prime Steakhouse in Southlake-it was delicious!
Friday, was a beautiful sunny day. We spent some time at Southlake Town Square, which is home to 250 stores and 120 restaurants! That night we ate at a Texas BBQ place before we walked to Cowboys Stadium for the big game...
Cowboys Stadium was unbelievable! This domed stadium with a retractable roof was built in 2009. The stadium seats 80,000 and is the largest domed stadium in the world. The high definition video screen hangs from the 20 yard line to the 20 yard line-gigantic! Originally estimated to cost $650 million, the construction cost ended up being $1.3 billion. BYU didn't win the game, but it was fun to experience the game sitting on 6th row-50 yard line...
