Monday, March 13, 2006

Too bad I didn't take a camera!

you can sneak crying pills into people's sandwiches for illegal weepy shenanigans

I don't think I've ever cried at a movie either.

Dallas was a fun time! The trip was longer than anyone expected it to be, which means that we were all pretty much burned out on Texas, but we had time to do everything we wanted. The teams mostly played night games, so we had more than a few days to waste walking around aimlessly.

The "X" on the street where Kennedy was shot is probably the most underemphasized historical marking imaginable. It was almost like the dude painting the lines in the street had to stop really hard or something because it was the same white paint and was even wearing off from the pavement. I guess I was expecting at least tacky Christmas lights and a small casino. And when people say "the grassy knoll" I guess that's a cool name and all, but it's seriously the size of most suburban front lawns. Some things about that assassination were put into perspective for me!

We went up Reunion Tower for awhile - it was very windy and pretty boring until we figured out that the Frisbee I had with me would hug the outside and fly pretty much all the way around the thing. Good thing there were no security people up there!

There were a lot of tasty eats for reasonable prices, which we weren’t expecting, so I guess I’ve got some eating advice for people going to Dallas now!

We stayed up way too late in the pool and hot tub pretty much every night and only got caught twice.

Also, the men’s team made it to the semi-finals in the tourney, which was totally awesome (they haven’t even won a game in this tourney since ’99). I guess they’re in the NIT, which is better than nothing!

This got long fast, so that’s enough for now! Maybe I’ll post more later if I can coerce my friend into sending me some of the photos.

Monday, March 06, 2006

Lagging Out.

Well, I just got back from a weekend of baseball (maybe if I get all motivated and stuff, I'll throw some photos up later), and now it's time to head off to Big XII basketball!

We leave at 7:00am this morning and won't be back until both teams lose (so Friday at the earliest). Sounds busy, but I might just end up with a couple empty days to explore Dallas while I'm down there.

The comic really isn't all that funny, but it's about Dallas, so it's more relevant than anything else I could find. It's still somewhat endearing and the comic is generally clever! Sorry!