Category: Texas

When we moved to North Texas last summer, I was delighted when we found a home close to the city of Grapevine.  It has great tourist appeal and interesting places to visit.  I’ve had the chance to go to numerous locales there in the past year.

When you think of wine, Texas is a state that you probably wouldn’t think of.  But it’s the fourth largest wine producing state.  And I do believe that my new favorite experience in the area is Grapevine Wine Tours.  It’s a fun wine tasting/meal event that gets you a flavor for the wineries located in the area and leaves you with a taste for more…

Our daughter only asked for one thing to celebrate her High School Graduation and that was to go to Medieval Times, because there’s nothing like celebrating a coming of age milestone with a meal you get to eat with your fingers and a bit of jousting for entertainment .

Grapevine Mills is the largest outlet and value retail shopping destination in North Texas, and it just happens to be about 15 minutes from my home!  They are celebrating the unofficial start of summer with unbeatable savings during its annual 4-day Memorial Day Super Sale Weekend from Friday, May 23 through Monday, May 26.  With summer travel plans on the horizon, shoppers are sure to find great deals on the perfect merchandise for any getaway at Grapevine Mills’ selection of more than 180 stores.

We had a chance to go to the Scarborough Renaissance Festival this past weekend.  What made it even more exciting was bringing my parents along with us.  My dad and mom are Faire newbies and it was fun to introduce them to this cultural event.

In a couple of weeks we are looking forward to doing so many things!  Our daughter turned 18 at the end of April and is graduating from high school on the 17th.  My parents and my best friend and Amber’s best friend are all coming to celebrate those two occasions.

When Amber was five we went to Orlando for a vacation and we visited Medieval Times.  It was such a fun evening, and she even got the chance to be crowned the Queen of Love & Beauty by our section’s knight who ‘won’ the jousting event.

When my sister came to visit with her family at Christmastime I was excited for obvious reasons.  A less obvious one was that we could visit the LEGOLAND Discovery Center at the Grapevine Mills Mall.  We’re HUGE Lego lovers in our family, one look at our immense collection ranging from piece meal bricks that are about 40 years old from my husband’s childhood to the Architect series boxes and Star Wars Lego boxes on the closet shelves and it’s kind of evident.

If you’re looking for an indoor activity to do with the kids in the DFW area of Texas, then SEA LIFE Aquarium at Grapevine Mills Mall is a place to check out.  It’s a venue that everyone in the family will enjoy and it’s educational too!  With more than 5,000 sea creatures to view it’s an underwater adventure…where you don’t have to get wet!

One of the best things of moving is having new places to explore and new things to see and do.  So I was delighted the other day when I was invited to Mama Fu’s Asian House for freshly prepared Asian cuisine on the opening day of their first restaurant in the North Dallas area in Frisco, TX.  This is the first of fourteen Mama Fu‘s locations slated to open in Dallas and Collin counties over the coming years, and after tasting the fare, I’m hoping that one opens up closer to my home!

In the countdown months of our move to Texas, we’ve started to look more seriously at houses that are on the market in the area we’ll be moving to.  In the last nine months we’ve looked here and there online, hummed and hawed about specific neighborhoods and suburbs but now that we know there’s a specific time we need to be down there, it’s become a bit more of an intense search – like, I stalk the realtor website twice daily for new listings.