Our adventure continues

All of our family bonding time on our road trip is providing quite a bit of entertainment with the things falling out of people’s mouths!  After a good night’s snooze in Dallas, I was giving one of the boys a hard time about talking in his sleep.  He simply looked at me and said, “I’m learning alien through Rosetta Stone while I sleep!”  Hmmm…I’m pretty sure he’s his father’s child!

Our original plan was to visit downtown Dallas and check out the grassy knoll and the Book Depository.  However, in watching the news, there was a St. Patty’s race and parade happening in that area and we decided not to fight those crowds and simply do a quite drive by of Cowboy Stadium.  Leave it to Ace to follow the gps to the site of the old stadium in which there was N.O.T.H.I.N.G. but rubble.  Never one to be deterred, he promptly headed us in the right direction towards the new stadium.  As we were driving by, there seemed to be a group of people making their way into the stadium.  Of course Ace insisted we check out what they were doing, and we ended up taking a two hour tour of Cowboy Stadium.

While we were there, they were converting the field into a basketball court in preparation for March Madness next week.  It’s quite an impressive place (everything truly is bigger in Texas as the Statue of Liberty could fit inside standing on her base and still not touch the ceiling!) in which we got to hang out in Jerry Jones’ suite (where Ace and I are above) as well as the cheerleaders' and players' locker rooms.  

It's hard to say which was more exciting to my guys, but my guess is the cheerleaders locker room!

 Luckily enough, the Cowboys have players with the last names of Austin and Carter so photo ops were in full swing.  However, we were instructed NOT to touch the wooden lockers as each one was close to $10,000.  Holy Moses!  Who needs that?!?  Definitely not teachers or kids at school...I'll leave it at that and get off my soapbox for now!  

Aaron seemed to think it was an okay thing for the boys to have their first experience at Hooters since they had just hung out in the Dallas Cowboys' Cheerleading locker room.  You can be rest assured as the only female in the group, I was not winning this one (mother of the year maybe for allowing it maybe!).  

 After that we made the rest of our trek to San Antonio and enjoyed swimming in an outdoor pool at 8 pm at night!  You sure can't do that in Iowa right now.  Tomorrow...St. Patty's Day on the Riverwalk!