Audra does Dallas – Part 1
Last weekend, my friends and I went to Dallas for the White Rock Marathon. Our friend Audra was running it as her first marathon and we thought it would be a great excuse for a girl’s weekend in Dallas. As if a girl’s weekend ever needed an excuse. Even given my crazy work schedule, I was in for my first trip to D-town.
We had so many plans for the weekend. None of which will be discussed here because 3-days before the trip the weather forecast took a turn for the worst and most of our plans went out the window. The weekend was really about Audra and with the race taking place in 30-degree rain, she was going to need all the help she could get.
Bonnie was awesome and booked us a room in the brand new Omni before it got booked up with race participants. We rolled up to a hotel with rainbow lights all around the outside. We should not have been surprised when we found the TV in the bathroom mirror but we still had fun watching it.
In the morning, we ordered breakfast to our rooms (posh right!) and looked out our window to find a parade forming just down the street. It was awesome watching huge blimps of Elmo and nutcrackers being pulled along buy groups of people. We were meeting Audra at Onyx Nail Salon for maini’s and pedi’s. This place was fantastic and I left wishing it had a twin in Austin. The chairs offered one of the best massages I’ve had and they had 4 big-screen TV’s. We sipped mimosas (complementary with service), watched TV and had our nails done.
We had grand plans for the day that included, shopping at the mall (yes, 21 days before Christmas), going to the mega half-price books, dinner, and dancing!! By lunch it was raining pretty hard. We headed to the mall and drove around the parking lot for a good 20-minutes before we found a spot. We hit H&M and BR and burned 3-hours before leaving the mall. We figured it would be best to ditch half-price and head back to the hotel to get ready for a night of dinner and dancing.
We had dinner at La Duni, a great restaurant Jessica wanted to try. The food was fantastic and we didn’t have to wait long to be seated either. By the time dinner was done, so were we. The weather was miserable, we were tired, and we had hatched a scheme to help Audra by running portions of the marathon with her. We were looking at a good 6 to 8-miles of running and the hotel beds sounded really good.
Stay tuned for part 2!