The day I started my own Grill & Bar in Dallas

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A sunny day in Dallas

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The fountain building

The first Nieman & Marcus - little disappointing...

Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition at DMA

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A sweet retrospective of the work of JPG in the Dallas Museum of Art with a nice trick: they projecting faces on the dolls - so it seems that they are really there. 3D done simple and with great effect. The clothes were outrageous and completely unwearable as usual - even the pret-a-porter collection stuff.

"Our Jaap" in Dallas

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Dallas and the Sixth Floor

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We all know that JFK was murdered on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. But is still pretty impressive to see the actual spot where he was killed and the warehouse where Lee Oswald shot his gun. It's now a museum where you can relive the whole day from minute to minute.

Mission Impossible IV

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Tom Cruise is awesome as Ethan Hunt in MI IV. The scene at the El Burj is goosebumps giving - nice car too...

French Quarter revisited

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Bourbon street is really awful = especially during the evening/night. But when strolling with a bleak sunny sky the French Quarter gives a whole different look and feel. It's actually pretty nice.

WWII National Museum

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NOLA has been carefully rebuild after Katrina and the city seems to come back to live again since the last time I visited it - just after the storm. A brand new very nice WWII museum tells the story of this war and the role of the Americans in saving the world.

Number 3000!

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This is post number 3000 on Blogger - since my first blogpost back in 2003 :-)

The end of the river and our road (river) trip

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After 2200 miles and 10 states (Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana) we arrived and the end of the mighty river - the Mississippi.
It was a fun road trip with lot's of history and nature along the way. The people were very friendly and the food delicious. Thanks to tripadvisor we found great places to stay.
It was a awesome trip.

Plantations in Louisiana

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Tom and Mason fooling around

Tom, Karen and Meg have enough of our guide...

There are many plantations still conserved in Louisiana. Some original Cotton some Sugarcane.
After we met our Mulvany friends in Baton Rouge we did a short excursion of our way down to New Orleans to a couple of the grandest houses: Nottaway and Oakally. Not a lot was said by the guides about the slaves on who's costs these houses and farms were build and run...

Lunch time

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trying to find something to eat in Natches - without any luck...