Traveling to Dallas/ Day 1 - 3 in Dallas.

It's unbelievable how smooth everything went on the journey including connecting flight in Frankfurt to Dallas, Car Rental, (complete) luggage and Hotel.
The flight was really short and everybodys (Aurelie, Barbara, Natasha and Sandra) luggage was complete.
The hotel is quiet close to the airport and very nice. We even have an indoor pool with whirlpool and a small exercise room. Breakfast is not too bad for a Motel type accomodation.
We tried to get used to the new time zone as good as we can by staying-up until a CST-it's-time-to-go-to bed.
I finished the day by being in the pool area. Very relaxing!

Today we were more north of Dallas in a shopping mall (Grapevine mall) and had lunch together which was very good and tasty. The funny thing was a little desktop computer on each table. You were able to check emails, play games, fireplace simulation, check the menue and re-order softdrinks. I'm sure, there is so much more to find out about the things offered by this little desktop computer...

Some more (window) shopping at a Tack shop  which has more items related to english riding style. It was very funny how little details vary from country to country. I found a toy horse which looks similar to Jabato (Thomas' horse):

After that we had a little break at Starbucks's
Beside we bought already some items, which we'll need on the ranch.

In the evening we met Tina Kolhammar from Sweden and had dinner together in a japanese resaurant (Beninhana) which was more kind of event dining as everything was fresh prepared at a table. It was funny & yummy! The Teriyaki beef was just perfekt.

Let's see what tomorrow brings here in Dallas before we are heading out to the Ranch in Truscott on Sunday.