We were stuck in North Dallas, hungry. I wanted some Mexican food, so we headed down 75 to find a place to eat. We remembered this place called Blue Mesa Grill that had looked good. So we decided to go there.

I have to say that walking up to the door made me wonder “are we cool enough to go in here?” On top of that, you enter in the front door and there are three flights of stairs to go up. That means it’s a really cool place. I thought they would take one look at us and kick us out.

But, this is Texas, and even the cool places are friendly. And the food was excellent. The funny thing was that I had been to Santa Fe on a business trip a few weeks ago and we tried to find a place like this, but failed. We found a good place, but it wasn’t the style that we were looking for really. Blue Mesa was – southwestern.

We topped that off by going to a container store (yes, a whole store for just containers) and a MASSIVE Barnes & Nobles. I mean, massive. Once again, I must have looked like a hick, just gawking at the big city. Two stories, with it’s own escalators right in the middle. A music section, a movie section, and rows for every section of books (versus the few selves for each “section” that they had in Waco). This was the Mecca of bookstores, for sure.