I am back!
August 28th, 2007 | Published in Dallas, Family, Food and Drink, Travel
Yes indeedy. I’m sure you haven’t missed me but I am back after spending two weeks in the USofA. I had about one week in Dallas and then one week in Palo Alto, California. It was great! I was pretty busy all the time though, so I didn’t get a chance to post here.
One of the reasons I was busy was that my Mum has bought a Mac for the house in Dallas. She also needed set up with GMail, whilst the wireless connection in the house was all screwed up. So I was a couple of days sorting all that out.
I’m going to do a couple of wee posts about interesting things I saw on my trip, but otherwise, I would say the highlights of my two weeks were:
- discovering Dance Dance Revolution and playing it for an hour and a half solid. I can’t believe I have never played it before, it is brilliant. And I sweated loads.
- swimming / chilling by the pool at the hotel in California (above)
- eating at Francis Ford Coppola’s restaurant in Palo Alto, and stealing my Dad’s shoe
- breakfasts at Einstein Bros Bagels (below)
- Buying stuff (clothes, only one CD, a Grimace bobble head and some cooking stuff from Williams-Sonoma)
- a day trip to San Francisco with mad Ailse
- getting a shower in the BA lounge at Gatwick and then getting a bit squiffy on free wine in the lounge at Raleigh Durham before my flight to Dallas
- and of course seeing the family
I’ve put some of the photos from la vacance on Flickr.
