DECORATIONS INSIDE GAYLORD

No money is spared on decorations inside.

There were wonderful train layouts-some went over your head.



Of course, they have a gingerbread house.

This was in one of the bars-it's an idea for all you drinkers.

These were on almost all the windows-they used thousands of those ornaments!

On the way to Ice.

GAYLORD RESORT-GRAPEVINE, TX

We've been to the Gaylord resort at Nashville, Opryland, so we had some idea of what we'd be seeing. It doesn't seem to be quite as big or have as many decorations, but it has Ice, which you'll see in a coming blog addition. Outside were some interesting decorations, and some geared toward Texans.

MORE LIGHTS

Our next evening adventure was close to our RV park and was two miles of lights. It didn't seem like a lot of lights in one place, but they went on forever. Here's a few.

PIONEER PLAZA

Before we left downtown Dallas, we drove around Pioneer Plaza where there's a pretty park with pioneer sculptures.

CHRISTMAS TREE CONTEST

Neiman Marcus also has a Christmas tree contest and then displays the (?) winners in their windows. Here are a few beginning with the winnner-a tree full of waste facts, even when we recycle-you can read them in the bubbles.

This one is made out of pencils.

How about crutches, canes and wheelchair parts?

Rocks?

Dolls.

These are interesting, but I'll take an old fashioned tree any day!

NEIMAN MARCUS CAFE

We went next door for lunch at the Neiman Marcus Cafe-we figured we couldn't live like "the other half", but maybe we could afford one of their sandwiches. They do eat well as you can see-I had a French dip and Don had a reuben.

NEIMAN MARCUS

We walked over to the first Neiman Marcus store, because our friends, Jake and Nancy, had said the decorations were going to be pretty. They were right.






Here's an example of an outside window with a dress made out of greeting cards.