Saturday morning we woke up and felt like exploring. My friend Erin used to live in Dallas and had given us a few recommendations of places to go, so we decided to check some of those out. The first place we went was a neat little place called Mockingbird Station. If you are familiar with Louisville, I would compare it to Westport Village. It has lots of shopping and dining. We would have probably done a lot of shopping there, but since we flew to Dallas we were limited in how much we could take back (and any space we had was pretty much gone after we shopped at the Pro Shop in the stadium!). After we left Mockingbird Station we ate at a mexican restaurant she recommended called Desperados. We were excited when we arrived and saw a sign saying that it was the "official caterer of the Dallas Cowboys." Fun! I'm sure they aren't the only restaurant in town that claims that, but it still made us excited! Our food was really good, even though we were initially scared that it might be "too" authentic for us picky eaters! We then drove by American Airlines Arena, where the Dallas Mavericks play, then decided to head back to the hotel. We were excited to get to meet up with some of Ronnie's family. His cousin Emily and aunt Cindy came by the hotel and picked us up and they drove us to where his uncle Steve, aunt Bonnie and grandma "Granner" live. Granner then took us all out for a delicious dinner at Red Lobster. We had a great time catching up with family that we don't get to see very often. After we left Emily & Cindy drove us all around Dallas and showed us places where Ronnie lived, played and went to school when he was young. They moved around a lot as kids, and Ronnie has very little recollection of his childhood. I think it was as fun for me as it was for him. As they would drive by a house Ronnie would say things like, "I remember that house, it has the huge tree in the backyard!" or "That house has a park nearby, right?" It was really fun and I think he regained a lot of memory on our tour!
The next morning was the big day, game day!! We woke up so excited and got our jerseys on. The weather was beautiful. Highs were in the 70's...I got to wear shorts to a football game in November! As we were getting ready to leave we were watching the coverage on the TV in the hotel room. All of the sudden Ronnie said, "They're on the field!! We have to go!!" So we quickly made our way to the stadium, walking amongst tons of fans...mostly Cowboys but some Bills also. If we thought it was amazing being on the field during our tour, it didn't compare to being on the field on game day! We immediately saw our favorite players on the field, Jerry Jones was walking around. One of the reasons we could see this so well is because I'm an AMAZING wife and bought ROCKING tickets. We were on the 30 yard line, 8 rows up. It was incredible. And don't ask me how much I paid for the tickets...I made a vow to never tell anyone and I'm sticking to it. :) We found out after the game that we were sitting four rows above and a few seats over from DeMarcus Ware's wife!! I had his jersey on and his wife was sitting right by us!
We had fun watching the players warm up. Ronnie and Dez Bryant had a little "exchange." It was so cool! He threw a ball that accidentally (I think...) hit a kid who was on the field in the head. Ronnie yelled out sarcastically, "Nice one, Dez!" Dez turned around and looked directly at Ronnie and pointed at him. OMG!! Then Rowdy the mascot walked in front of us and when I got out my camera he posed for me. The people sitting around us were awesome. That's always a slight concern when you are at a big game. Thankfully they were loud and energetic like we are! The guy sitting next to Ronnie siad, "Ok, do you high five? Because I high-five." Ronnie was like, "Dude, I'll be all over the place high fiving everyone!" It was pretty funny. Shortly before game time we decided to go on and get some food. We obviously didn't want to do this during the game, and we didn't want to do it at halftime beacuse they had one of those cool card things going where we had to hold up colored cards to spell something out. So off we went. Unfortunately this caused us to miss the big fire show on the field when the team runs out onto the field. :( This happened because I insisted on walking further around the concourse looking for something I saw during our tour, which we never found. Woops. However, we did walk right past Roger Staubach on the concourse. I didn't recognize him, but after we passed Ronnie said, "AHHHH!! That was Roger Staubach, that was Roger Staubach and I FROZE!!" Pretty cool to be so close to Cowboys hero!
The game was amazing. We've decided that I'm good luck at Cowboys games. I've been to two and both have been Cowboy blowouts. The Cowboys won 44-7. We were so excited to see a good win! They pretty much played perfect. It was awesome.
We had a great time in Dallas. I would love to make it a trip we make every few years. It was fun to relax and enjoy time with each other, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to see Texas for the first time. We had a nice flight back (I was ok...much less stressing for me!) and we were really excited to see the girls. We gave them their presents from the stadium. We got them a Cowboys Mr. Potato Head, and Ella specifically told me she wanted me to get her chapstick on our trip, and I ended up finding Cowboys chap stick. Yay! Thanks again, Mom and Dad, for taking such good care of the girls! Here are a few pictures:
Walking to the stadium
Dez warming up
My handsome husband!
Me!
Go Cowboys!
Romo...literally right in front of us!!
Post-game celebration!
Couldn't resist!
Emmitt Smith, Ronnie's favorite Cowboy of all time!
In front of the stadium
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