These next two shots are ariel views as we are leaving the airport & flying over Dallas.
Here we are ready to leave on Southwest airlines from the Dallas/Fort Worth airport back to Salt Lake City. We enjoyed our quick visit to Texas & hope to come again & maybe stay a little longer. Blair says the people in Texas are great...lots of southern hospitality, good morals & conversative values. Parents here really do want what is best for their kids.
On Jan. 14th as we were leaving for the airport, I got a picture of the Dallas Cowboys arena. I believe they are in the process of building a new one.
This plaque was put in the spot next to the road where the assissination took place, to designate it as a National Historic Landmark at Dealey Plaza.
Next Blair took us to where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated here in Dallas in 1963. I remember that day very well. I was in the 3rd grade in Mrs. Johnson's class & out for lunch recess on the playground in Lovell, WYO. Some girls came out yelling, Yeh, the President's been shot! I thought to myself, "What President?" After going back to class, the principal announced the news & our teacher started crying & school was let out for the rest of the day. Then we watched the replay of the event on TV, over & over for days, it seemed. Lee Harvey Oswald was in the upper corner room of this Library with his shotgun & shot Pres. Kennedy from behind as he came around this corner riding in a convertible with his wife, Jackie, at his side, ready to go under an underpass. Oswald was later shot by as he was being taken into jail.
There were some amazing bronze horse statues all over the courtyard of these buildings.
This is the area in Dallas in which Blair has his accounting firm. He has some wealthy oil barons as some of his clients, so he has been doing quite well over the years. This year has been of big concern though, with the recession & problems in the oil industry.
Janece & Jay Wood, & Blair Dance trying to carry on a conversation amidst all the loud excitement of the team.
In the left of this picture is Jay Monson, who is the sports commentator for the BYU games on BYU radio. More teammates & Coach Jonas Chatterton at the last table.
Some of the coaches (Dan Nelson, Stacy Jensen, Head Coach Jeff Judkins & little Dan, the media guy, Ali Bills with her back turned & finger pointing & other team members waiting for their food.
After the game, we went to IHOP to celebrate. The girls were quite hyper & loud, but I suppose they have a right to be when they came from a big win vs. TCU. Pictured from left to right are Dani, Haley, Jenteel, Keilani, Kristin, & Coriann.
Coriann waiting for a pass to come from Shawnee in the far right of the picture, just past the view of the referee. BYU beat TCU 62-46, & this was BYU's 10th straight win! Coriann played 21 min., had 3 points, 4 rebounds, an assist & a steal. A couple of video clips are at the bottom of this post.
Here's Blair & Jay walking to the TCU basketball coliseum.
A partial representation of the old southern looking colonial style homes.
There were some really neat monuments made to represent the day of the big cattle drives.
Billy Bob's Saloon or bar is supposed to be the biggest in the world, I believe. It's quite a place if you're into that type of lifestyle.
Some of the old cattle stockyard buildings & corrals.
They had some of the big old cattle driving stockyards turned into tourist areas for shopping & dining.
This is an entrance to a huge rodeo grounds area.
This is supposed to be quite a good Mexican restaurant here.
Here's driving down one of the cobblestone streets with a lot of the old buildings.
This is Jay's & my first time to set foot on Texas soil. We have flown into airports before, but that's it. Here we are in old town Fort worth. It's full of cowboys with big hats, guns, the whole nine yards. I was trying to get pictures as we were driving, hence the blurriness. Jay's good friend, Blair Dance, originally from Blackfoot, ID, where he was good friends with Jay, & then also in college, came & picked us up at our motel in his BMW & showed us around a little,before we headed to the game at TCU.
Coriann making a foul shot vs. TCU.
Here's some fun hills we saw from the park, that people do a lot of dirt bike riding on.
The next morning we went to a park near their home so the boys could play on their scooters, play with a soccer ball & also on the playground equipment. I got lots of video clips that I will post below, but not any good snapshots. Carl also played some football with his buddies. Here's Jay & Chantel watching the boys. Chantel is due any day with her 3rd boy. We saw some rabbits & a squirrel around their home place. Carl went with Jay & I to Coriann's game at 2:00 p.m., which was a sad ugly loss. We got some little Ceasar's pizza & came back & watched more basketball. After church the next morning, Jay & I caught our plane back to Salt Lake. We got to the house in Orem around 9 p.m., after a delayed flight & a bumpy ride, because of snow.
Some fun ocean pictures of the Carl Moody family.
Jay & I flew on Jet Blue to San Diego, found a place to get some books for the boys & met Carl, Chantel, Crew, & Jax at Applebee's for dinner. After coming back to their cozy, sort of in the country home, on the outskirts of Temecula, we talked until about 11:30 p.m.
