3rd Monday in McKinney

Yesterday, Bob decided we were going to go on a Road trip. He wouldn't tell me where we were heading. I only had one guess and he would only give me one clue. He took me to McKinney, Texas for 3rd Monday Trading days. We love going to Canton for First Monday and were hopeful this would be as good. It is really small and we were able to do the whole thing in about 2 hours. I am glad we went as we had fun, but I doubt this will be a regular stop of ours.

Here is a picture showing down one of the rows. You can see the vendors on each side. They had things from handmade Cowhide purses to used books. It was fun to see all of the different things. We got a couple of things, but had a wonderful time just looking around.
This picture, below is from their version of Dog Alley. There are breeders with all kinds of puppies and cats for sale. At Canton, there is even a vet so you can have the animals checked out. It would be impossible to pass on one of these animals, if you were hunting for one. They are so darn cute. It is sad though, to think about the conditions that the animals may come from. As most of you know, our dogs are very spoiled and we were careful to check out the breeders they came from.


When we left there, Bob went to the "man store". I sat in the car and read the paper, played online Suduko and waited ... and waited ... and waited. He loves going here and can spend hour upon hour in there. Basically, it is just a big electronic/video/applicance/movie/cd store. They have things there that Bob has seen in magazines but not in real life.


I think it is hysterical that they have all the Longhorns looking at you from under their sign. This is what makes it a "True Man Store" I guess. Only in Texas.

From there, we tried a new place for dinner. Rafains Brazilian Churrascaria. We eat at Texas de Brazil a lot and wanted to try a different version of that. We are glad we tried it, but will stick to the original. Here is a picture of one side of the salad bar.


On the way home, we got caught in a lot of traffic turning into the Pizza Hut event Center. The neon sign said "Jimmy Buffet, here, tonight". The parking lot looked like an RV convention. I had heard that the Parrotheads party the whole weekend, but had never seen anything like it. Here are a couple of pictures that kinda show the crowd. We were going down the highway at 60MPH, so the picture quality isn't that great. Sorry.



Just as we were leaving Texas, there was a beutiful Rainbow. I thought Rainbows came at the end of rainstorms, but this one was before the storm. Still pretty.
We were on I35 between Purcell and Norman when we began getting rained on. There was a wall cloud west of us and another one east of us. All of a sudden we began getting pelted with hail. BIG hail. I was scared to death. Bob just kept going. The visibility was horrible, but we could see lots of red tail lights up ahead. Stupid people were pulling off under the underpass to protect their car. While that may be acceptable to do if you are in the outside lane, you should never do that in the inside lane. The car directly in front of us ... a new BMW with a paper tag ... just decideded to stop. Bob began honking to make them move. He was afraid someone would plow into one of the cars behind us and we would be rearended. Finally the car moved and we began going. We finally drove out of the hail. Here are a couple of shots from where we were stopped.

We had a great time, but I could have done without the last 90 minutes of the trip.