Blimey! Why didn’t we decide to come to Fort Worth earlier?! I have no idea why. Miss Pinky had actually wanted to go on a Medieval Times night out on this day... ¬_¬”” Is she serious? We came all the way to Dallas to go on a Medieval night? I think she knew I didn’t want to go... But thankfully when we went to get more information about the TRE trains she suddenly changed her mind. Yay!!
Started early! Yay to that too!! ^_^
We took the bus to train station as usual (I felt so familiar with the Inwood area that I almost thought I was living there!). We hadn't realise that you could actually purchase a regional pass on the bus as well as at the station which we didn’t know. Thanks to the driver we actually saved US $2.50!! :D A regional pass takes you through to Dallas International Airport. You can also use it on DART trains and buses.
We stopped at Victory Station and changed for the TRE train, which is the black line. We didn’t know which end to get on at...And some of the people there didn't know either... Strange. One thing that's really different in Dallas is that they hardly have any train staff at the stop. You really have to rely on the public and some bus drivers (not all).
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| Victory Station |
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| TRE train |
The journey takes about 35-40 minutes to get to ITC Fort Worth Station, which is the main tourist site! Not bad.
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| TRE means Trinity Railway Express |
Then we took a bus. We asked the driver to tell us where to get off in Downtown, but she was too busy talking... And we ended up far, far away... So we got on another bus back thanks to the driver who stopped the other bus in front. But Miss Pinky saw a cowboy like town, so we stopped off and told the driver we’ll go back into town later...
The place we stopped at is called Stockyards! It’s like a tourist part about cowboys and ranches. This is what Miss Pinky had really wanted to see throughout the whole journey! We should've done some research earlier... Too busy with our working and home lives though!! ¬,¬""
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| Stockyards shopping area |
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| Outside Riscky's |
First off was my horrible fried gherkins. I really didn't know they were going to be put into batter. It was so salty I squirted a lot of ketchup over it. Probably ate one-fifth of this! Yeek!! :(
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| Salty fried gherkins |
We decided to have the US $14 (approx. £9) meal with 2 meats, fries and whatever came with it! But the waitress tried to convince us to take the 3 meats for an extra dollar. I should have stuck with 2 meats. Miss Pinky convinced me to take the beef ribs for her to try out. And they were massive! Didn't like the seasoning unfortunately. Enjoyed the fried catfish and battered prawns... and the coleslaw was ok...
Miss Pinky had 3 meats too, but had to take some of it away. She had smoked catfish, pork ribs and beef brisket!
There was so much on the plate. Didn't like it. Didn't finish it. Plus we found it was not the service we had liked...
My geeky rating on Riscky's (for my part): 1/5... Miss Pinky would probably rate this a 3/5 ... Yeek.
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| The guys in front didn't bother to move the cones!!!! |
I even took a pic of the cone - Miss Pinky was trying to pull it out from under the bus ¬,¬""... Passengers must have thought we were was crazy... But they don't know I blog! Hah!
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| The cone that got stuck underneath the bus XD |
We found a lounge bar afterwards and had a cocktail. I had a "pretty" cocktail glass according to Miss Pinky... I guess I have style even though I don't know what I'm drinking.
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| A raspberry cocktail |
And Miss Pinky had this. :D
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| I can't remember what was in this |
Then we moved on to find food! We did not want steak, hamburgers, pizza or ribs... So we needed to find Italian, Japanese or Indian. It was my choice this time to find somewhere to eat... And then I saw a lady at the window. She was eating pasta at this place called UNO. I wanted pasta. I was deprived of carbs!! :S
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| Rattlesnake Pasta |
Miss Pinky enjoyed hers even though she had a slight itchiness afterwards... I think she missed having a proper pasta dish!
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| Lobster and Shrimp Scampi without the shrimp |
The manager and co. was talking to us throughout the evening. So we tried to eat and talk at the same time! I find it very difficult to do that! But they are all a friendly bunch at the restaurant. I would like to see an English restaurant try to that... Or at least attempt it... That would probably never happen!!
Then it was dessert time. We had the mini versions of the desserts. So Miss Pinky had the The Granny Smith All American which she thoroughly enjoyed...
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| The Granny Smith All American |
And I had the Uno Deep Dish Sundae. The cookie was a little stuck to the dish... But that was ok!
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| UNO Deep Dish Sundae |
Then it was drinks time... We had lovely waiters especially Ally and a lovely bartender (forgot his name)... Miss Pinky asked the barman to make an apple sour (which he didn't know how to make so he looked it up in his bible of cockatails. Hah!). He even let me take a picture of him making it!! Hahahahaha!! ^_^
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| The bartender at UNO |
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| Our apple sours! |
He made a snakebite for Miss Pinky and for me a sweet cocktail... ^_^
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| My sweet cocktail ^_^ |
Here's Ally and the barman...
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| Pretend fight! |
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| Awwww :D |
And here's the lovely manager...
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| The manager! |
My geeky rating: 5/5 for everything!!!! :D Such lovely staff and food!!!
Address: 300 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102, United States
Website: http://unos.com/ It was time to go back... We emptied our bladders, and then we only had a few minutes left before the train came in which I needed to empty my bladder again... Too much drinking!!!!! ¬_¬””
We met a person on the train called Nathan at this point and Miss Pinky decided to sit next to him for some reason. ¬,¬"" He is quite a geeky person like me. He also mentioned there was free wi-fi on the train!! What?! Amazing!! He made our journey go quite fast as he was trying to talk to us about Dr Who and other British TV... ^_^
Finally we got back to Victory Station to change for the local train and then I took these lovely pics of the evening. :D
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| Dallas at night |
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| American Airlines building |
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| Not sure what building with the flashing ball on top is called |
Plus on the downside we heard an old lady talking to Nathan who said there was an explosion in West Texas... That was the one in Waco... I was quite thankful that we were hardly near there! Dallas to Waco is the distance from London to Bournemouth, which is like a 2 hour train trip or a 3-4 hour coach ride (Mr Bear looked that up for me when I went back to work). So sad to hear this... My friends in London were quite concerned! It looks like bad luck happens when I'm always on holiday!!
We all parted ways at Inwood / Love Field Station... Miss Pinky and I hardly argued on this journey!! Incredible!!
