Tour de Dallas

On Saturday, I took a walking tour of downtown Dallas and I learned a LOT! The weather was gorgeous and we got to see a lot of things that you normally wouldn't just run into while downtown.

Here are a few highlights of the tour:

This is Reunion Tower - a unique feature of the Dallas skyline at night. It's a lit-up ball and there's a restaurant and observation deck at the top. It's all closed for rennovation until sometime in 2009 - so I'm looking forward to going to the top next year.

Here's a close-up of the ball at the top of the tower:

This is the main newspaper in Dallas - The Dallas Morning News. (Abby - I thought you would find this interesting since it used to be one of your clients!)

Here's some proof that leaves actually turn brown and fall of trees here - some of the FIRST evidence of this. I really really really miss the pretty colors and crisp nights, raking leaves and that smell of fall.

And this demonstration was kind of weird - and I'm assuming it's because of the election coming up. It was a pick-up truck that pulled up to a JFK memorial plaza with a trailer behind it, containing big stone tablets with the 10 commandments etched in them, as well as a replica of the Liberty Bell. He set up some sound equipment and started playing his guitar. For the 10 minutes we stood there, he played patriotic songs and spoke about Americans losing their values from what the Founding Fathers intended.