As you may have gathered over the few years of us journaling about our wide range of family experiences, one theme seems to flow through all of them, eating food. In fact for us to plan a trip any where the local flavor of food is always considered. This is another reason (on top of just wanting to spend time with Ray) why, although I have many concerns with this GRAND state of Texas, I can't help but look forward to visiting Texas. Not only are we exposed to Ray's personal cultural culinary traditions but also the local southwestern/southern traditions as well. Ray knows us well enough that he takes extra consideration in exposing us to many different places to eat during our visits. After our morning of golfing we figured the girls needed to do what they love as well, so it was off to the Mall for shopping but not before lunch of course.
Ray took us to a place called "Rudy's Bar-B-Q" which is famous for their bar-b-q potato. Kristy and I love potato's and bar-b-q however we had never considered combining the two. We were very intrigued by this new discovery.
Rudy's provided a very family, down home, community bar-b-q style atmosphere with their barn shaped restaurant and their very long tables. This would certainly take your mind to a community picnic down south somewhere. Very cool in my book.
So once we received our order we found two different types of bar-b-q sauce on the table along with all the expected spices. The bar-b-q potatoes looked very inviting and so we dug in.
The sauces and the bar-b-q potato was like a southern piece of heaven. I can not express the amount of love I have for this dish, let me tell you, this was just too good. Kristy, the girls, and myself were sold on Rudy's, for sure!
After our bar-b-q indulgence Ray became a hero again, at least in the eye's of Molly & Neleha. He took us to a Mall that had a pet store. Our girls would have stayed in that store all day if we would have let them. However, we actually had a purpose for this visit. Kristy's Mom, Tove, sent us money to buy the girls Easter Dresses and we figured today would be a good day to go dress shopping.
On our way through the Mall little Miss Neleha spotted one of her best friends, she quickly decided that she no longer wanted to do dress shopping but character cut-out shopping. It wasn't easy but we eventually found our way to the dresses.
Neleha ended up enjoying the whole trying on all the dresses game. She had a blast twirling around in each one she tried and simply showing off for Ray. Her and Molly eventually found their dress of choice and our trip to the Mall was a success.
Once we returned to Ray's place Neleha informed him that she found Sponge Bob hiding in his apartment. That's right, Neleha found an actual yellow square sponge and her imagination ran wild. To her, she had found an action figure not some ordinary cleaning tool.
