Anywho, we did that for a few hours and then went back to the hotel so Ryan could order some tires for his car. We grabbed lunch at Krystal (amazing) and went to grab some State Fair Tickets from Brian Oney. We then headed to the state fair where we started with a test drive of a few GM cars. I drove the Sonic and then rode with Ryan in the convertible RS Camaro. Lame. We checked out some booths and then headed to the car shows. We saw some great cars and I got the scoop on the FSR from Scion. It is a 2.0L RWD "sports car" that is going to be under $25k. I am excited and hope it turns out as awesome as the picture I saw (I am told it is 90% of that picture). We saw some sick tuned GTRs with over 1000HP, a ZR1, a CTS-V, the Z07 Stingray concept and the ZL1. All of them (except the Camaro) were awesome. The 'vette had a great metallic dark silver paint job. I had to drag Ryan out of the Caddy. He's such an old man. Landon met up with us and then we headed to the food. We tried fried bubblegum (pink marshmallows), fried pineapple upside down cake, fried ice cream, fried salsa and some sausage. It was a good time. The fried ice cream was AMAZING! We headed to Grand Prairie, with Landon tagging along.
As we headed out, Landon realized that he left his stuff in his fiance's car. We managed to get out of the crazy fair traffic and grabbed his stuff. We almost died a few times, but luckily the Hummer handled it all really well. We saw an old Mercedes almost t-bone another car. We were on a two way road and this guy flies up besides us to run a stop sign. There was a car coming perpendicular to the road to turn left. It was crazy, but they both survived. We headed back to the hotel, changed clothes and went to a nearby bar to meet a friend of mine from school (Trip). We played darts until 2 or so and then headed back to the hotel.
Saturday we got up and headed to an Irish Pub for breakfast. We ate a great meal and watched some soccer. After that, we headed to a car show at the Ducati dealership. There were a ton of cars, but close to half were Mustangs. Boring. However, there were a few Ariel Atoms, two Ford GTs (one was a Hennessey GT850), a Lambo and lots of bikes. Ryan and I entered a contest and Ryan walked away with $110. He then donated it back to the charity and moved on. What a guy! We quickly headed to Target to get a gift for Tim (our coworker who was getting married in Tyler later that day). We ran to Landon's fiance's apartment, changed and headed to Tim's. We stopped for Sonic near the wedding and then made it into the ceremony. The wedding was good and Tim seemed really happy to see us. We dropped off Landon at the apartment and checked into our Fort Worth hotel.
Sunday I got up and worked on homework. I really wanted to attend a church in the area, but I got up late and worked on homework. I still feel guilty. After a few hours of homework, Ryan and I went to eat at the stockyards and then headed down to see the cattle drive. We met up with Anna and Landon at Cabelas and then Jonnie P showed up. We chilled there until they kicked us out and then we headed to downtown Fort Worth. Landon and Anna checked into the same hotel we were in and then we headed to the Water Gardens. Everyone was impressed and I breathed a sigh of relief (I was concerned they wouldn't like it). Jon then bailed on us and dropped us off downtown. We checked out the Reatta, which is a sweet rooftop bar and grill. After that, we headed to the Flying Saucer, where we grabbed a bite. Then we headed to the Fox and the House to watch some sports (not much was on anymore) and we hung out until 2 or so.
Monday morning, we got up early to pack up and head to the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth. We got a sweet tour of the production line, but we all agreed we would have liked to see more. We ate lunch there at the awesome cafe and then headed to Grand Prairie. We got a few more tours there and I met with my future manager before we headed out of town. It was right around 5:15 but we hit the HOV lane and flew through town. To celebrate our ease of getting out of town, we stopped at the same Flying Saucer we visited Thursday night. It happened to be $3 pint night, so the guys had a few and I drove them back. We ended up in town around 12:15 on Tuesday morning. We hit the sack and then headed to work early the next morning.
All in all, it was a sweet weekend. I feel much better about moving there and finding a place to stay. I found a great area of town, but I have to make sure it is something I am really going to like.
