By this Author: greatgrandmaR

Thursday 10 January 2008 - Leaving Shreveport

I couldn't log on to the wi-fi as it said there were too many users, so we just checked out and drove to Frisco.

Passing through Shreveport

Stopped at the Dairy Palace for lunch.

Dairy Palace sign

Dairy Palace entrance

Sign outside

Dairy Palace Restaurant menu

Sample sandwiches- 1/5th pound, 1/3 pound and 1/2 pound

They had 1/5th pound, 1/3 pound and 1/2 pound hamburgers. Bob got the

Bob's 1/5 lb. hamburger

I got chicken fried chicken, which I thought (incorrectly) would be just fried chicken.

My chicken fried chicken

But it was like chicken fried steak - a flat piece of chicken (no bones) fried and covered with white gravy. They had Blue Bell ice cream, but I didn't get any.

Blue Bell Ice Cream bar

Desserts

We left about 1255. and we got to our daughter's about 1348. She was on the phone looking out front for us, and we came in to the back. So she was surprised when Bob knocked on the back door

Towel elephant

She had made a towel elephant for us. She said it was easy.

Her husband was still in NY on a buying trip.

Friday -11 January 2008

Our son-in-law got home from his buying trip. Our Miami daughter who was in Dallas for training rented a car and came out from Dallas and we all had dinner together.

Dinner table at our daughters

Our grandson taught us to how play with his Wii.

Playing wii

Saturday 12 January 2008

My mom's sewing machine had been given to our daughter, and they had taken the sewing machine out to refinish the cabinet. Bob and our son-in-law put the sewing machine together,

My mother's sewing machine

and then our daughter and SIL went shopping for material for curtains while we watched the kids.

Our son-in-law's dad took us all out to dinner for our son-in-law's mom's birthday at an Italian place call Buca di Beppo.

Buca di Beppo Entrance

Inside the restaurant

He likes this place because the decor is somewhat raunchy. There are pictures of men in speedos who basically overflow the fabric as if he was pregnant, and one of a kangaroo's balls.

Man's bikini and kangaroo balls

It was family style where you order a dish and everyone helps themselves. A favorites is Apple Gorgonzola Salad
Tart Granny Smith apples, spiced walnuts, dried cranberries and Gorgonzola cheese are tossed with fresh Romaine lettuce and our Italian vinaigrette.
We ordered Lasagna- Nine towering layers of lasagna noodles stuffed with our homemade meat sauce and a savory combination of ricotta, mozzarella, provolone and Romano cheeses
and Spaghetti Meatballs. Imported Italian spaghetti with our famous half-pound mouth-watering meatballs smothered in our homemade marinara sauce. The meat balls are huge. We had enough to eat so that we packed some of it up to take home.

Spaghetti and meatballs

One of the interesting things about this restaurant was the decor of the Ladies room. I can only imagine what is in the men's room but the ladies room has framed ladies undergarments decorating the walls.

Framed underwear in the ladies room

Sunday 13 January 2008

Sunday was church, and afterwards we watched the football playoffs. The outcome was sad

Youngest granddaughter is sad

for the local folks rooting for the Cowboys (which our SIL and grandson do).

Bob and granddaughter

Monday 14 January 2008

Bob took Bocci (our daughter's boxer dog) for a long walk,

and then he and our daughter walked to get the kids from school.