Fun weekend

My friend Carla came to visit from Cary, NC this past weekend.  Our friend Cindy could not join us on this trip (we took notes in the journal for her).  We met 24 years ago and when we are together most people can't stand us so we usually go somewhere.  This visit we stayed in Dallas.  Hal was a wonderful, understanding, participating when asked husband...love you babe!
The daughter of a coworker of mine opened a restaurant downtown Dallas, Mad Hatters.  We stopped there Friday before heading to Farmers Market.  Carla and I used to go to the Farmers Market on Saturdays and then split everything we purchased between us.  We had so much fun shopping and cooking the next week with all our fresh veggies and fruits.  All the fruits and veggies are displayed so pretty.

And now they have the flowers, furniture and most anything else you could want.

We made a stop at North Park.  I was totally amazed how crowed it was.  Why weren't those people at work?  Shopping made us very tired as neither of us are shoppers so our next stop was the Flying Saucer for a beer and chips and dip.

Now that we are refreshed, it's time for our pedicure.  Our nail technicians talked non stop with a heavy accent.  Carla and I were worn out trying to listen intently to understand them...not my favorite pedicure experience.  I'll go back to my usual place next time.

When Hal and I were in Atlanta a few weeks back, Chris and Melissa made homemade pizzas for us.  They made it look so simple!  I thought this would be a good thing for us to do Friday night.  Stay home, have some wine, make some pizzas.  Plus it was raining like crazy outside.  Well....I had Carla chopping and dicing.  I had Hal chopping and shredding.  Bowls everywhere.  Flour everywhere.

I served Thai and BBQ chicken pizza.  We had our last pizza around 11:15 that night and it was outstanding!

On Saturday we took Carla to our favorite breakfast place and then to the Wild Flower festival.  Elssye was serving beer at one of the stands for Junior League.  We made several donations.

We met up with Taylor and his girlfriend Kacy.

The evening was beautiful.  Little River Band was playing that night.  Great sing a long music for me..

Binkie, Taylor's sister was in from Austin and Kacy.

Taylor's parents, Maureen and Chris

Carla was leaving Sunday so after church we made our way to the Grapevine/Southlake area for a little reminiscing.  We had to stop for lunch at Mercado Juarez and it was as good as always.

We met up with Dan and Carla's neighbor Peter who still lives in the house across the street from their old house.  We had such a good visit....he hasn't changed a bit!

Dan and Carla's old house and it has changed a great deal, including the 2 car garage.  Looks beautiful.

One last stop at Willhoites.  We spent many an evening at this place.

Thanks girlfriend for coming to visit me.  Cindy you were thought about all along the journey and were missed terribly.  I treasure your friendship, love you dearly and look forward to our next time together.