14 years strong and a Dallas staycation!

May 4th 2010 marked our 14th wedding anniversary.  Jeremy always takes the day off work and we usually go out to eat as a family.  This year we decided it would be the first day of his vacation/time off since he had already requested it off anyway.  I was woken with a hot latte from Starbucks, red roses, new cute pj's and CHOCOLATE! yum.  It was a lovely way to start the day, especially since I didn't expect ANY of it.  I do love surprises. 

After enjoying my coffee and getting ready for the day we all headed down to Dallas.  Today we were going to spend exploring and getting a feel for what we wanted to do for the rest of the week.  We drove in to Dallas (which is not even 40 mins from where we live but it always seems SO far to go) and parked under the Big Red Museum and Tourist Info.  We wandered into the tourist info office and found a most helpful worker there who gave us a walking guide and some ideas of what to see and places to eat.  We mentioned we wanted to see the 6th Floor Museum and he informed us we couldnt that day because someone broke in the night before.  They apparently got through two levels of security but he wouldn't divulge if they got away with anything!  How exciting :)  So Tuesday ended up being our walking tour day.

First stop was Fountain Place which is really just a business building but they have fountains surrounding the building.  Finn really loved it.  Soleil slept.  The bigger boys enjoyed it too and Madeleine snapped pictures.

Next we walked by the Dallas Museum of Art and snapped these pictures.  We didn't stop in because we were trying to see things we hadn't seen before.

Then we stopped by The Crowe Collection of Asian Art , in the gardens outside there were various sculptures, all beautiful, here are a few that we saw.

We ate lunch inside the building adjacent to the Crowe Museum and then wandered over to look in there.  They have some really beautiful pieces and the museum has no charge for admission. 

OK well this the first half of our first day, we packed a lot in on the first day so I will save the second half for a second post.  Still have the Dallas skyline, Thanksgiving square, Declaration of Independence and Original Shakespeare and the Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive.