My Life on the Road - 100% Travel Chick: Dallas - Plano Courtyard

Well this is my 3rd trip to Dallas since I joined the team!! My first was a Franchise to Franchise with the talented Tricia we were actually in Waco but close enough (click here, lets go Baylor!) and the second was with Queen Zirkle (click here to relive that experience!), both of these experiences where awesome so I was hopeful for another great trip to Dallas. This trip was again with a lot of firsts, I would be observing all of a Courtyard Bistro without having to do FOSSE or housekeeping and the first time I would be meeting Maj, Pearline and Ben (and come to find out the first time they had all worked together!)
I landed in Dallas after traveling to St. Louis to catch my flight after wine weekend...I was tired and a bit wine logged! Maj and Ben arrived ahead to conduct the Leadership meeting, I had the pleasure of meeting Pearline at the airport and riding with her to the hotel in an Uber. I knew within about 5 mins that she was awesome and that all I had heard about her was totally true and that we were all going to have a great week! We got to the hotel and met up with the gentleman, both super nice and excited to all be working together. They filled us in on leadership meeting and we got a game plan together for the week, had our first "family" dinner and hit up the grocery store!
Kick off day was great I volunteered to do the opening kick off presentation, I was a bit nervous as I didn't know any of them and they were all in the room while I facilitated. They provided good feedback and were all very nice to help jump in if I forgot something or to help during the group activities, if this was any indication of the remainder of the week it was going to be a great week!
Besides learning a lot of the rest of the trainers this week was also filled with lots of "family" dinners and the chance to see Joe and meet Mary and Casey who were also in Dallas at another opening across town. Joe arrived on Tuesday to hang out with us at the CY opening and then went across town on Thursday for the SHS opening with Mary and Casey. Wednesday night we ALL met up at a middle meeting spot where Casey found an awesome restaurant and we sat around a huge round table very mob style eat, drank and laughed a lot...the only picture we got was a panoramic picture that Maj took and its jacked up to say the least!!! Thursday Maj's sister was kind enough to invite us over to her house for a home cooked meal of Pakistan food, we of course couldn't say no as we don't get home cooking on the road very often. It was another amazing time and AMAZING food, although the spices were too much for this girl and I had some serious indigestion! We celebrated Mary's birthday with a cake and of course their was singing! Then it was off to top golf for a fun night of laughter and competition! Side note: When I saw Joe the next week at Bistro Ops in Jupiter he was still sore!!
It was a great week that I had a real chance to bond with new team members and got to spend some quality time with the one and only Pearline! She was everything I had heard and more....very motherly, great at explaining things and so funny!! We learned lots about each other, mostly due to Pearline's line of questioning! We also taught her so much about googling, U-Turns and sooooo so much more that just isn't blog appropriate! Thanks Ben, Maj and Pearline for another great week in Dallas, until we meet again friends....safe travels!