Day 06: Saturday, July 07, 2012

In all honesty, we started Saturday morning off by exploring that giant, gorgeous hotel!  haha  But then we moved onto visit the Sixth Floor Museum on Elm Street in Dallas.  The Sixth Floor Museum is housed in the Texas School Book Depository - the site from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy in 1963.  The sixth floor is where evidence was found incriminating Oswald for the crime.  Today, this entire floor is set up with history of John F. Kennedy's life, his campaign, and down to the second details of the parade and the day of JFK's assassination. We couldn't take pictures at the museum but I can only begin to express to you the amount of emotion on that floor.  Rebecca and I found each other at one point and we both had tears in our eyes.  It is crazy to think about standing so close to the spot where someone committed a murderous crime.  The corner from which Oswald shot is currently glassed off with the boxes set up in the area exactly as they were that fatal day.

The seventh floor is an observatory filled with local art honor JFK and pictures can be taken from this level.  Out the wind of floor seven, we could see the grassy knoll, Dealey Plaza (the birth place of Dallas and the landmark closest to the site of JFK's death) and a "X" in the road which marks the spot where JFK's car was went he was shot.  (There were tons of people running into the road to stand on the X or even take silly pictures near it and Becca and I almost went crazy on these disrespectful people...but we decided to leave that to Jesus and just walk on to the JFK memorial a block over.  It's a good thing too because Becca has a taser!)

From the 7th floor, looking down to the X that marks the spot where JFK was shot 

View of the the X in the road and the Texas School Book Depository

Dealey Plaza

JFK Memorial

After touring all the JFK memorials, we headed back to the Adolphus and sadly said goodbye to our wonderful room.  :(  From there we headed to the Highland Park areas of Dallas - home to the largest and most immaculate homes I've ever seen (at least the largest and fanciest ones that occur block after block, street after street)  We drove around for a while looking at all the wonderful homes and then ended up at Highland Park Village - full of restaurants, boutiques and high end fashion.  This means we walked and looked and no purchases took place. haha  We did eat at Mi Cocina, a trendy restaurant with Tex-Mex cuisine, for lunch.

Highland Park Village

Next stop after Highland Park was Arlington, TX where we toured the Cowboys Stadium!!!  It's the largest domed structure in the world, and our new friend Danyelle, who is on staff at the stadium, hooked us up with some other fun facts about the new stadium as well:

• The jumbotron/ridiculously HUGE TV in the new stadium cost $10 million MORE than the ENTIRE old stadium...just the TV!

• All of the lockers in the Cowboys locker room are made out of imported African wood.  This is the same wood that is used in the wood-grained decor in the Bentley driven by Jerry Jones' wife. (Jerry Jones is the owner of the Cowboys and this interact wood grain is where they got the inspiration for the locker room design)

We walked around in the stadium, ran around on the field, toured the cheerleaders' locker room and then made out way to the players' locker room where we actually tried on two of their jerseys. And we looked so tough too...they tried to recruit us but we declined gracefully.

From there, we hit the highway to San Antonio, TX.  But before we reached our destination of the night, the good Lord sent an angel from above to my iPhone and led us to find Gourdough's - a gourmet doughnut food truck ranked as the #2 restaurant in Austin, TX.  Ummm of course we stopped and we were beyond pumped! (Check out the menu and descriptions here: http://www.gourdoughs.com/)

From top left: Mama's Cake, Blue Balls, The Mother Clucker, The Blackout

After our sugar coma subsided, we made in to San Antonio just in time to check in and get some sleep.