Halloween Parties for Adults: Texas Style

You say you need a drink on Halloween Eve?

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has a listing of Halloween parties held at popular nightclubs. Adults have a chance to join in the fun by wearing ghoulish costumes and getting wicked until the late hours of the night. In Dallas, Trees and Buddha 9 will hold parties from 8 pm until 2 am. For those who would like to party in Fort Worth, Scat Jazz Lounge will cater to your Halloween Eve dancing. Additionally, what better place to find free live music events than in Halloween theme parks themselves? Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, for instance, holds its yearly Howl-o-Ween top 10 countdown at the Fright Fest’s Majestic Theatre. They perform songs by Aerosmith, KISS, Kelly Clarkson, and other popular and classic rock bands. If street dancing is your thing, you can join Mr. Six Spectacular Street Party, where a mix of favorite Halloween party music will rock the night.

But it doesn’t have to be costume parties and late night drinking. You can get a whole lot of Halloween ideas by checking out Halloween Events 2009.

Eagle Quest 2009 at Lake Texoma

Here’s a small trivia. What is the most number of bird species that a person has ever seen? Answer: More than 8,500! But that’s not the real mind-boggler though. That person — the world’s biggest bird-watching buff — is Phoebe Snetsinger, who has a remarkable obsession which led her to “spend her family inheritance travelling to various parts of the world while suffering from a malignant melanoma, surviving an attack and rape in New Guinea before dying in a road accident in Madagascar.”

That is not to say birdwatching is a horrible and extremely dangerous hobby. On the Texas map, there is a special spot for veteran birdwatchers (or first-timers) to espy eagles and birds of various kinds. It’s in Lake Texoma, where Eagle Quest 2009 will be held on January 24-25 2009.

I remember Lake Texoma as our last year’s pick for our Fourth of July celebration venue. I did my tubing and spent hours under the sun riding the scarab with my family. Lake Texoma is in the heart of Gordonville where famous marinas such as the Cedar Mills can be found. It’s very easy to find in the Texas map.

Eagle Quest 2009 involves activities such as workshops and seminars, hot air ballooning, flea market events, stargazing, and birdwatching of course! If you need more information on how to get there, here’s a Texas map I’ve provided for you:

Lake Texoma Easy Access Map

Eagle Quest 2009’s address is at at 198 Cedar Mills Road Gordonville, TX 76245.

Source: Wikipedia and Texomawestend.org

Our Dallas Asian Market has moved again!

Asian Market goodies

We seriously got lost trying to find the Asian market that we always frequent whenever we go to Dallas. Apparently they kept changing locations. This time around, the owner of the Vietnamese restaurant in that same square where the Asian grocery was located said it moved about a mile from their original location. So we drove over to check it.

Although it’s not the same Asian market that we were used to (the original one was bigger), Joe was able to score some huge blue crabs. I got my lumpia wrappers and Mang Tomas lechon sauce. Always, even though there were some old stuff missing, there were some new stuff on the shelves. I took my seasonings, noodles and Mung Bean soup mix. Everything else in the store looked foreign to me.

When we come back, we hope that the Asian market would branch out and occupy the other building next to where they moved now. Who knows what new exotic Asian stuff we may find there!

Weekend Getaway in Dallas, Texas

On our weekend getaway we decided to drive 100 miles from home to Dallas — to spend the night, party out, check out the malls and flea markets, and…who knows what else? We’ve been to Dallas a thousand times but there is always something new that Joe wants me to see. Also, we have always wanted to check out places we saw along the way, but never had the time to do so before. This weekend we made such opportunity possible.

We booked a hotel room at Crowne Plaza Suites — not necessarily extravagant — but there are things to like in our room. The bathroom is not big, the bed is not soft enough, but the hotel offered a mini-living room separate from the main bedroom, which has its own cable TV and laptop desk. The hotel has a nice pool and a hot tub but we figured it was too cold to swim, so we skipped the dip. We also wanted to work out in the gym as soon as we checked into the hotel but then time was running out.

I brought my own warm clothes but Joe didn’t, so I harassed him into getting himself a long sleeved shirt at the mall. After checking out Barcadia and spending a minute talking to a friend living near the hotel area, we drove straight to North Park Center.