So we got up, had another good breakfast and checked out of the the hotel.
I just had to go to the Fry’s Electronics store down the street. We don’t have cool stores like that in Kansas City. I could spend the whole day in that store. Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiif. Ahhh, the smell of electronics. Sweet manna from heaven.
After a while, we headed east to the Kemah Boardwalk (warning: annoying auto-play music). It was OK. It was a small amusement park on the Galveston Bay. Ho-hum. Here’s some pictures.
The highlight was the three nice retired ladies sporting the “Rock Chalk Shamrock” t-shirts in honor of the Jayhawks on St. Patrick’s Day. I even didn’t care that one of them smirked and asked about my Bucks shirt. Hey, I can be a native Kansan and still root for the Bucks. Someone needs to.
We snarfed a quick leftover lunch in the parking lot, we headed for Dallas. I was tired already and this trip was a real drag. We did see the big ole Sam Houston statue.
We finally made it to Dallas. We had some time to waste so we decided to find some Texas BBQ to really make the comparison with Kansas City BBQ. We had seen Pappa’s Bar-B-Q places all around, so we decided that’s what we’d try for dinner. Very nice atmosphere. We got a sampler platter and a few sides. The ribs were very tender. Brisket was so-so. The coleslaw was excellent. However, the meat didn’t really have a smoky flavor and the sauce was real tomatoey. It was good, but, sorry, just can’t stack up against Jack Stack in Kansas City.
After that we bummed around a local Target and returned the rental car at about 9-ish. We took the Enterprise shuttle to the airport. Our flight was set to leave at 6:00am the next morning. We figured that it would be a waste of money to have the rental car for another day and a hotel room for 5 hours, so we decided to camp out at the airport.
Bad idea.
Dallas Love Field Airport has a central TSA checkpoint, which just so happens to close overnight, so we had to sleep in 5 or 6 of the 25 or so chairs outside of the terminal area. It was fine for a couple of hours. Nothing was open and there were hardly any people around. But, that didn’t stop the annoying PA announcements from going the WHOLE STINKIN’ TIME. I tried to sleep, but there was just no way to get comfortable. I got bleacher-butt real bad. Not good.
We met an older gentleman who had a 6 hour (!?) layover in Dallas while en route to Houston. It was a last minute flight for a funeral. The poor guy struggled and struggled to get comfortable and rest, but he just couldn’t do it. He ended up walking back and forth in the hallway for 4 hours. We talked a security guard into letting us use a chair from another area, but it didn’t really help him that much.
I finished the Chasing Cool book I had been reading. Pretty good book.
Caleb slept almost the whole time. I maybe got in an hour. Rachel stayed up the whole time. Becca slept a little longer than me. About 4 am, a real annoying family showed up with takeout IHOP. Rude. Ugh. About 5 something they opened the checkpoint and we finally made it to the nice terminal seats. Didn’t matter, we were all zombies, except of course, for Caleb.
I hardly remember the flight home. We arrived in KC at 8 something in the morning. Took the shuttle out to our car. Wouldn’t start. Had to pay $30 for a jump. Home. Must…get…rest…pillow…ZZZZZZZZZ.
You better believe that I’m not booking flights for weird times anymore.
And so it went. Texas Vacation 2008.
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