We had breakfast in the hotel again, checked out and left for the stadium tour about 9:30. The self-guided tour started at 10:00. I purchased tickets online so we wouldn't have to do that when we arrived, but the line for tickets did not look very long. There was a mass of people standing outside the stadium. I guess they were groups assembling or waiting for their entry times. We went on inside and were led upstairs to the entry for the self-guided tours right a...

We had a full day of Cowboys fun today. After a good, hot breakfast at the hotel, we had only a short wait to go to the first event--a tailgate party with Dallas Cowboys legends signing autographs. We left the hotel to drive the 1.5 miles to the parking space I had booked and paid for in advance. The stadium had no parking left when I bought the tickets, but I booked a space through ParkWhiz.com at the TailGate Tavern. It's just north of the stadium and about a...

Today, we planned to drive around to places that Philip and I remembered and to show them to Erin. First, we drove by the house where Jane was living when Philip was born. We had never seen it before. It is right by White Rock Lake and about three miles from the next stop on our tour--the house where he grew up. Erin had never seen it before since his parents moved from there before she was born. We drove by the church where we got married and the Boy Scout hut t...

I worked half a day, but Philip took the whole day off. We picked up Erin for the ride to the Sunport and had dinner there before our flight. It's been a while since we traveled on Southwest, but it was okay. Since it was the best way to get to Love Field non-stop, we decided it was worth trying them again. That was much better than going through Houston or Denver like we would have had to do on United. Picked up the rental car and drove straight to the hotel wh...