To my family and friends – thanks for sticking with me on these long blogs! So much to our story!
Before coming to Dallas I was thinking about what we would want to do. Go to see where we both lived (at one point we were both living in Richardson which is just outside of Dallas), the hospital where I was born which was demolished in 2015 due to structure integrity and then re-built, my old elementary school, etc. Knowing we were going to meet the family later on Saturday and probably stay busy the rest of the weekend, I asked her if a relaxing day at a local spa might be in order. Yes! she responded via text. So, I went to work looking at different options and chose a place not too far from the hotel where we could get in on Friday with a couple appointments. Saturday morning we went down for our free breakfast from a coupon that the manager also gave us (so incredibly thoughtful!). At the omelet station both Sherry and I ordered omelets with jalapeños, a few potatoes and some berries. Coffee is a must have with at least 1-2 cups a day. This fits with my 23andme report which said I was ‘likely to consume more’. We headed off to the spa for our first appointment. We went pretty casual with a lovely person offering to take our picture outside the spa.
Getting ready for our relaxing day!
Once inside, we talked through the appointments that I had booked filled in all the paperwork and we shown through the back door into low lights and low voices. Lockers, robes, hot tea – we were all set. For those who have pedicures, you will appreciate this next experience. We were called into this small room where there were a total of 4 chairs. Sherry and I were seated across from each other chatting away with one of the staff remarking how young Sherry looks to which she remarked with a thank you and how all these compliments were going to go to her head. 🙂 As we were all laughing, one of the patrons in the other chair asked us to lower voices which was fine because now we were about to transition to the zero gravity experience which entails laying back in the zero gravity chair, putting on comfortable headphones playing ocean and rainfall sounds and having soothing eye mask placed over our eyes. You feel like you are floating and in a complete relaxing state. Afterwards walking out of the room, both of us thought this was one of the best experiences for a pedicure we had ever had! With about a 3 hour gap we went through the rest of the picture books she brought and conversed about each family member a little more and Sherry’s life growing up. She was going to be a nurse when she was heading to college and in comparison I was going to be a dentist. She married even when accepted into nursing school but her first husband wanted her to work instead. This ultimately led her to a career in the post office. She became Postmaster eventually which is quite a feat for a woman in Texas!!!
I finished with my last appointment before my mom did, paid and walked to the local coffee shop. I texted where I was and she came walking in a little later not happy that I paid for everything. Her funny statement was that I was in trouble with her for the first time in our mother-daughter relationship! No worries it didn’t last long. 🙂
We went back to the hotel to change for dinner and then took a Lyft to the sushi place. Why sushi you may ask? We found that we both love sushi but Sherry doesn’t eat very often as very few family members like sushi. Some of you may know that I have yet to find a sushi place in all of my domestic and global travels that compares to the excellent texture, taste and freshness as The Sushi House in Bridgewater, NJ. Well, Edoko in Frisco, Tx runs a high 2nd!
We had a late reservation to give us time to wake up from our relaxing day and at t 11:30 pm as we caught our Lyft back we were literally the last patrons to leave with a restaurant employee vacuuming behind us. Not because we were messy but trying to ‘sweep us out of the restaurant’ in case we were thinking of just staying overnight. Haha! The sushi was that good!
Back to the hotel we drank a glass of wine and ate the last of the strawberries from the hotel manager discussing what our plans are for checking out and heading to Waco. She presented me with my Grandmother’s birthstone ring since my Grandmother Mary who died at age 94 last September had a March birthday like me. This was so special and so appreciated! My mom said that she wished we would have found each other before my grandmother died so she could have met me. I know she must be watching over me now! Another 1:30am night before we went to sleep but it was such a wonderful day!