We are back in the (literally) frozen tundra of KC.\u00a0 After 3 days of 60 – 70 degree weather, constantly listening to whines of “Why did you move me back to KC??!!!??” you can imagine my consternation when the plane landed and it was dumping snow at a frightful rate.\u00a0 What luck.\u00a0 Anyway, after the two-hour crawl from the airport, we’re back home.<\/p>\n
We flew to Dallas on Friday evening to visit our friends David & Jill, and to celebrate Donette’s birthday.\u00a0 It wasn’t quite as big as our celebration last year in Playa, but we didn’t need passports and still stayed at an all-inclusive resort (their house) so it was close enough.\u00a0 We got to their house around 12:00 at night, which is generally about 3 hours past my bedtime.\u00a0 But, there was a lot of catching up to do and we ended up staying awake until the rather unholy hour of 2:00.\u00a0 Quite possibly the first time I’ve seen 2:00 in the morning that I wasn’t either in college or working.<\/p>\n
Saturday was the “official” birthday, so we kicked it off at the crack of 10:00 with some omelets.\u00a0 After breakfast, we loitered in the hot tub for a few hours, burned a few stogies, did some napping, listened\u00a0 to some music…\u00a0 Kind of generally enjoyed the afternoon.\u00a0 Later in the day we headed over to their daughter Casey’s place for a somewhat impromptu wine-tasting, then headed down the street to her haunt of choice, the Knox-Henderson<\/a> district.\u00a0 It’s a cool Westport-ish little place;\u00a0 Which is to say, too expensive and too young for the likes of me.\u00a0 But, you know, “when in Dallas” and all that.\u00a0 We started off strong with two enormous bowls of steamed mussels at Vickery Park.\u00a0 I don’t think I’ve ever tried steamed mussels, but you can bet I’ll be dragging everybody back for more next time we’re in town.\u00a0 They were awesome.\u00a0 I thought about dropping a few in my pocket and trying to duplicate them at home, but I was afraid they wouldn’t travel well.\u00a0 Immensely pleased with the beginning of the evening, we headed to Victor Tango’s<\/a> next.\u00a0 Now this place was definitely more “Power & Light District” than “Westport.”\u00a0 They mostly featured “Scratch Cocktails,” described on the menu as “the precise rendering of vintage and modern cocktails using freshly squeezed juices, local herbs and fresh vegetables.”\u00a0 I tried reading a few of them and then panicked and said “Uhhhhh, you got any draft beer?”\u00a0 Dang Kansas Citians, what can ya’ do.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun watching the bartenders though, they were some artists.\u00a0 Last on the list, we hit Cuba Libre<\/a> for some dinner.\u00a0 Everybody went with an assortment of their tacos, which were quite possibly even better than the tacos back home at Jalapenos.\u00a0 (That last statement is roughly on a par with saying “The steak at Capitol Grille is quite possibly even better than the steak at The Brooksider.”)\u00a0 David had picked up a few fine CAO cigars to round out the evening, but towards the end of dinner Casey got mysteriously fatigued, so we headed back to the house and enjoyed them on the back deck.<\/p>\n Sunday brought still more food and hot-tubbing.\u00a0 Hey, it’s what we like to do when we go out of town.\u00a0 We finished off the left-over tacos from the night before, then headed out to Rio Mambo for some lunch.\u00a0 We do like the Tex-Mex.\u00a0 Bellies stuffed once again, we drove around and checked out the new Dallas football stadium, then it was off to my favorite shopping destination; Costco.\u00a0 I picked up some rechargable batteries and some DVD burning software.\u00a0 They looked remarkably similar to the ones at the Costco 5 miles from my house, but I’m pretty sure these were cooler since we were in Dallas and all.\u00a0 David, meanwhile, picked up a few pounds of beef tenderloin and some cilantro-lime shrimp for the next round of gluttony.\u00a0 (And a Christmas tree, but frankly I was only interested in the beef and shrimp.)\u00a0 Thusly armed, we headed back to the house, fired up the grill, and…\u00a0 See the end of the last few paragraphs for details on the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n OK I’m tired of typing, much as you may be tired of reading.\u00a0 Monday we rounded out the feed-a-thon with oysters and gumbo at Pappadeaux.\u00a0 After that, the girls went shopping while I snuck back to the house to read a book.\u00a0 Spent the rest of the day hot-tubbing, snacking, and smoking cigars.\u00a0 Some things I just don’t get tired of I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are back in the (literally) frozen tundra of KC.\u00a0 After 3 days of 60 – 70 degree weather, constantly listening to whines of “Why did you move me back to KC??!!!??” you can imagine my consternation when the plane landed and it was dumping snow at a frightful rate.\u00a0 What luck.\u00a0 Anyway, after the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}