Today hasn't been the first of my holiday weekend adventures! It all started when I managed to score a standby seat on an earlier flight to Dallas. I was able to be home in time to have a late lunch with my mom and brother at Chip's on Knox Street (one of my favorite areas in Dallas)! My grandparents arrived later that afternoon, and we headed to our favorite place for dinner - Angelo's! Yum.

The next morning, activities began at 8:30am with a big homemade breakfast at my place. Then we headed to the West Village, a new mixed-use development just outside downtown Dallas. The area used to be a empty field dotted with a few remains of demolished buildings, but now its a cool mix of shops, restaurants, apartments, and an art house movie theater. You can catch the trolley from there and take it down McKinney Avenue and into downtown to the Dallas Museum of Art. We stayed on board and headed back to the S&D Oyster Company for some delicious fried shrimp and lemon meringue pie. Again, Yum. :)

Later that evening we picked up my Gramma from her apartment and made our way out to Grapevine, TX, to the Gaylord Texan Resort & Conference Center. I have enough to say about the place itself to fill an entire second post, so I'll leave most of my impressions out of here. :) Simply put, the place was amazing. We had dinner at the Riverwalk Cafe, a buffet-style restaurant styled like a Mexican food house on the San Antonio riverwalk. We had margaritas, ate some delicious fajitas, and listened to the strolling mariachi band. It was a great evening, and I'm so glad that I got to share it with some of my favorite people. :)