As of last Sunday, I am on the downhill slide to 30 - only 360 days left. Not that it's a big deal or anything, just a fact of life.
The week prior to my birthday, Emily kept asking me what I wanted to do to celebrate, but because I had bronchitis, I wasn't all that excited about it. Finally, on Friday, I decided that I wanted to ride the TRE (Trinity Railway Express) from end to end - from Dallas to Fort Worth. That evening, we mapped out a plan for Saturday. We would get on the train in South Irving and go west to Fort Worth, then we would turn around and head to Dallas where we would transfer to a Dart train and get off in the West End for lunch before heading back home. Well, Emily ran a 5K Saturday morning and by the time we got to the train station, we were about 5 minutes too late and because the trains only run every two hours we decided to revise our plans.
There is this store called Sam Moon - some of you may have heard of it. I have wanted to go for a long time. It seems that every time I comment on someone's purse, they say "I got it at Sam Moon". Since we missed the train, I decided I wanted to go to Sam Moon instead. OH MY GOODNESS! That place is huge - all it has is cheap, imitation, knock-offs of brand names but there were hundreds of purses and wallets and jewelry and even hairextensions. Emily and I both picked out a super cute camel print purse and matching wallet - we got different styles of the purse and wallet but the same print. Emily offered to buy mine as a birthday gift.
After we were done shopping, we decided to head to Red, Hot and Blue, a memphis style bar-be-que place that we enjoy. The food sure was yummy - but the onion rings were a little spicier than usually. When we were finished with lunch I decided I need to take a "fun" picture to commemorate my 29th birthday. Emily suggested we drive around and take pictures of me by the letters and numbers that spell out "Melanie is 29". I thought this sounded fun, so we set of on our journey.
First we found a big 2 on a parking lot sign, so I got out and she took my picture standing by it. We moved on and found the "m" on a box that had m'n'm's in it; the "el" at El Chico; an "A" in a sale sign at a Toyota dealership; "n" in the sign for the Westin hotel; "i" at IBT bank; "e" in a business park sign on Esters; "is" in a Chili's sign; and finally, the "9" on the fire truck at Irving station #9. The firemen were so sweet - they kept giving me suggestions about where I could go to find all the letter. One even went and found a 2 to hold up next to the 9 on the truck so it said "29".
The week prior to my birthday, Emily kept asking me what I wanted to do to celebrate, but because I had bronchitis, I wasn't all that excited about it. Finally, on Friday, I decided that I wanted to ride the TRE (Trinity Railway Express) from end to end - from Dallas to Fort Worth. That evening, we mapped out a plan for Saturday. We would get on the train in South Irving and go west to Fort Worth, then we would turn around and head to Dallas where we would transfer to a Dart train and get off in the West End for lunch before heading back home. Well, Emily ran a 5K Saturday morning and by the time we got to the train station, we were about 5 minutes too late and because the trains only run every two hours we decided to revise our plans.
There is this store called Sam Moon - some of you may have heard of it. I have wanted to go for a long time. It seems that every time I comment on someone's purse, they say "I got it at Sam Moon". Since we missed the train, I decided I wanted to go to Sam Moon instead. OH MY GOODNESS! That place is huge - all it has is cheap, imitation, knock-offs of brand names but there were hundreds of purses and wallets and jewelry and even hairextensions. Emily and I both picked out a super cute camel print purse and matching wallet - we got different styles of the purse and wallet but the same print. Emily offered to buy mine as a birthday gift.
After we were done shopping, we decided to head to Red, Hot and Blue, a memphis style bar-be-que place that we enjoy. The food sure was yummy - but the onion rings were a little spicier than usually. When we were finished with lunch I decided I need to take a "fun" picture to commemorate my 29th birthday. Emily suggested we drive around and take pictures of me by the letters and numbers that spell out "Melanie is 29". I thought this sounded fun, so we set of on our journey.
First we found a big 2 on a parking lot sign, so I got out and she took my picture standing by it. We moved on and found the "m" on a box that had m'n'm's in it; the "el" at El Chico; an "A" in a sale sign at a Toyota dealership; "n" in the sign for the Westin hotel; "i" at IBT bank; "e" in a business park sign on Esters; "is" in a Chili's sign; and finally, the "9" on the fire truck at Irving station #9. The firemen were so sweet - they kept giving me suggestions about where I could go to find all the letter. One even went and found a 2 to hold up next to the 9 on the truck so it said "29".
All in all, it was a fabulous day even though we didn't get to ride the train. In fact, we probably had more fun doing what we did.
Click this link to see the pictures...
https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?user=emilyjward&galleryid=b187d8a038914cbfb2bbde3ffbadb70c&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC
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