Three trips to downtown Dallas on three consecutive days this week. Tiring in traffic but all worthwhile jaunts. The first trip was on Thursday to catch the last days of the Spring Blooms event at the Dallas Arboretum. 
There was a summer of love theme going with a VW bug and bus decorated with flowers and a flower power booth manned by “D”. It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed a picnic on the lawn by White Rock lake and a nap in the sun.
Friday’s excursion was to the lovely Meyerson Symphony Center for a concert by Alicia’s high school symphonic band. Mort Meyerson was one of the original founders of EDS and has donated to several local causes associated with the arts. The Boyd band sounded great in the hall – not quite as good as Carnegie Hall but very close. Alicia had a solo to start off one of the pieces that had a Japanese sounding theme. She did a great job of rising to the occasion as ever. Here’s a clip:
After the concert we headed over to the eclectic Deep Ellum neighborhood for the annual arts festival – 3 days of music and food outdoors with hundreds of artists’ booths set up along the streets.
We picked up a metal sculpture of aliens carrying off a garden gnome as a gift for Patty and Brent who had been eyeing something similar at the festival last year.
The alien sculpture was delivered on Saturday night on the last of the three downtown
excursions. This time to the Kessler to see 10,000 maniacs. We enjoyed dinner at Bolsa and then a great concert courtesy of the Wahbas. So many fun activities around downtown Dallas but a bit too long of a drive in traffic to go as often as we’d like.