Hitting the town!

That is not only an awesome glass gun, but a tequila bottle!

First mistake...shots at a dinner table is never going to end well. 

Bloody mary, tequlia and lime something. eeek.

Looking fresh.....not for long.

Wall art. real cactus flowers.

Love love love the colours

Bunch of auditors and one teacher!

Rumplemints. Matt, Steven, Justine and Katie

I cant keep the pose! Me, Justine and Steven

Pretty Texan girls! Julie and Katie

Amazeballs. A group of guys had been to Medieval Times and were taking turns dancing with the purple velvet cape!

Challenge accepted!

Photo-bomb!

Hello branding

Each song played in the club has the accompanying music video, loads of rap music.

: )

Knox St Bar crowd

Seems to be the pose to do here...i.e. pretend there is no camera!

Matt squared.

Taking advantage of the extreme fan

Random friendly Texans! I promised Arti I would put this pic online! Done.

Evan squared.

Taxi home.......

Dallas Mavericks Basketball Game

All photos courtesy of J Vallance.

The American Airlines Center - where all the magic happens!

The Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallas Mavericks!

The cheap seats ($40!). Earlier in the afternoon there was a Dallas Stars ice hockey game in this very stadium, they just replaced the floor between games??! Americans.

The Fabulous Four (the boys are going to hate me for that name): Me, Justine, Grey & Ashley

Cheerleaders: Its not a televised sports game without ladies dancing in bikinis. Hold the hot dog, I think I'm going on diet.

Pumped!

Game time.

Snack time. Frozen Margaritas, bottomless popcorn, hot dogs with jalapenos ........Newlands could do with some pointers.

Said fantastic hot dog.

So many people!!

Cute!!!!!!!

It'll be cheaper at Walmart!

Looking like a lumberjack-basketball fan!

Beer and ice cream. No the locals were not doing it too.

Posing with the "vibe-creation band". Should have asked why they wearing sunglasses inside, at night?!

Yummy.

Crowd Cam: "Dallas girls love's the Mav's"

More cheerleading.

The Dallas Mavericks Anti-Cheerleaders, to make everyone feel better about the hot dogs and buttery pop corn they just ate!

I want me one of these.

Good game y'all! The Mav's Won!

Rise and shine

This is our way to work.....please excuse the excessive photo editing, Mark sent me a new photo editing program!

The view from my bedroom window

My hire car for 4 months.....I am an automatic convert! Luckily all the parking spaces are made for monster trucks, so getting to grips with the size of the car hasn't been hard!



Carpool to the office. Justine's turn today.

Traffic coming out the Dakota.

Our exit to the highway. Yes those are gold buildings, it is not the morning light tricking your eyes.

On the 75 South, Dallas downtown in the distance. My preconceived idea that no one speeds in the States was completely wrong! Everyone speeds and no one will let you into their lane! There's no relying on Dorothy (the gps) to tell you where to exit, as you have no hope of changing lanes fast enough!

Dallas downtown. 10 min from our house!

Elm St garage, no more "Dodge valley" parking. Although spooky name.

The tunnel to work (between the garage and our building, so you dont have to ever feel the true effect of the weather!)

GT ad in the tunnel

Justine modelling our standard issue laptop bags. We had to explain backpacks just dont work with heels.......we now have shoulder bags!

More tunnel.

A familiar sight in a new city : )

At work: Thanks Jeff! Also a new recruit, for the tax department.

Singer at the bar, Iron Cactus, for our "Busy Season Kick Off Happy Hour" after work.