Despite my love for all things Texas, the drive from Utah was not something I was looking forward to. 20+ hours driving alone would have driven me crazy! (No pun intended.) My Aunt Susan is a bit a "Road Trip Junkie". Or would "Guru" be a better term? She loves driving long distances and was happy to drive out with me. She was even kind enough to do 95% of the driving. I get awful anxiety driving at night ever since Michael and I spun off a two lane mountain road coming home from Bear Lake during an intense snow storm late one February night. Once my aunt and I made it to Wichita Falls, we decided some site seeing was in order since it was her first time visiting Texas. Michael and I took her to Dealy Plaza in downtown Dallas to see the site of President Kennedy's assassination.
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| The Sixth Floor Museum. One of the shooters is believed to have shot from the sixth floor of this building. |
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| My Aunt Susan. |
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| The Grassy Knoll. |
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| The Kennedy Memorial |
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| You can see the Grassy Knoll past the monument. |
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| I love the reflection of the sky on this building. |
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| X's have been placed on the road where the bullets struck the President. |
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| Dallas has some great buildings! |
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| My Aunt Susan with one the X's marking where President Kennedy was shot. |
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| This man claimed to have been present when Pres. Kennedy was shot. He has a picture showing him as a young boy standing along the parade route right by the Grassy Knoll. He talks to tourists about what happened that day. |
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| The fence is marked to show where Lee Harvey Oswald perched his rifle to shoot the President. |
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| Michael avoiding the camera. |
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| The water fountain at Dealy Plaza. |
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| Michael charging one of the bull statues at Pioneer Plaza |
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| Michael losing to the bull. |
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| Aunt Susan running with the bulls. |
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| Michael attempting to drop one of the bull statues...he didn't get very far. |
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| Aunt Susan has an admirer... |
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| "This is Sparta!" |
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| Aunt Susan got swept up in all the excitement of Dallas. |
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| Street Cars are making a comeback in Dallas and they are so much fun to ride in! |
Here are a few pictures I took during our arrival and stay in Wichita Falls.
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| We had ducks walking around in the street during a rainstorm. |
There are some crazy clouds in Texas...the whole "Tornado Alley" thing has me scared I'll get caught in a real life reenactment of the movie Twister.
Our apartment was 2 minutes from Sheppard Air Force Base.
This was our final run through of the apartment to make sure that we had everything.
