All Around Dallas and not a Ewing in Sight

Ok, so Larry died and the poison dwarf went dancing on ice or something in the UK, but at least there could have been Bobby and Pammy waving at us as we went by South Fork yesterday-ah well!.

Having decided to re-visit Fort Worth and the Stockyards area we eventually decided to go via Plano where there just so happens to be an Office of the M+W Group - yes the company I work for. Well it would have been impolite not to stick my head round the door.

That of course is if you can find the place---I googled it , wrote down directions and then someone forgets to put the name of the road up at the main road and I did get some stick from my navigator for being too stubborn to ask someone directions - she is right of course , but don't tell her I said so---I can only think that most americans must have sat nav.

Any way Percy Verance wins again---

It was also my great pleasure to be able to meet my good friend Carl Williams , who is doing a fantastic impersonation of the Zsar of Russia, with a fine growth and looking forward to seeing him and meeting his family later today---

This picture is for those of you who do not know where Plano is.

So Lynda and I went off in the 100 degree weather, and visited a great area that we only really spent a little time in previously and that is Stockyards--- there are a whole bunch of photos on the full profile page if you click on there---

Not so many visitors when the air is like being in an oven--I think , having not tried that particular thing--and middle of the week .

Now here is a question that I think needs answering. If America is the home and originator of the Ice-cream parlour , why then , when it is melting the shoes on your feet, is there no said , Ice-cream parlour anywhere that we could see in Stockyards---you would have to clean up, with people like my wife desperate for such a thing---anyway we had to make do with a very nice milk shake instead.

For those fold that might be in this neighbourhood and want to learn a little of the habits of the Texicans then you need to have an evening in a certain Billy Bob's--

Great place and is huge -- someone told us that they can get thousands in there for concerts with some of the big stars ad it is where Rod Ann Lynda and I were first introduced to the Texan two step dance, which is very peculiar to this part of the world.

There also for the old TV affectionardos of the black and white western and kids running around shouting Yes Kimosabe--don't ask - then the next 2 pictures are for you only--

Ok so we did all this sight seeing malarkey, and instead of using the interstate to get back to McKinney where we are staying we decided to cut across country on the more scenic route--- a typical Englishman abroad -- and got duly lost in and around an area called Grapevine, which has to have one of the largest estates of $ 2 - 5M homes I have ever seen, very nice-- definately ended up taking us twice as long to get back to the hotel but we did get a really nice swim on our own.

A pretty uneventful evening with a take away and a bit of tv and reading so a quiet way to finish the day.

Right then, if I don't pack this up there will be no breakfast left so I got to go folks.
Later's