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Monday, August 30, 2010

Canton, OH

As promised, here is the post on our trip to Canton, OH - the trip we have planned for, talked about and dreamed about for at least 5 years - since Emmitt Smith retired in February 2005. That day, after watching his retirement speech, I told Dave I wanted us to be in Canton when Emmitt was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. It had always been a dream of mine, but I never thought it would come true.....boy, was I WRONG! :)

We headed to Nonna and Poppa's house on a Wednesday afternoon. We got Landry and the dogs situated there and left EARLY Thursday morning to catch our 7:30 am flight out of DFW. We arrived in Cleveland and drove to Aunt Kris' house where we spent the rest of the day and night catching up and touring her town. We had a great time and laughed alot - no surprise when hanging out with Aunt Kris! :)

The next morning we loaded up and made the 2.5 hour drive to Canton, checked into our hotel and started preparing for a weekend full of fun festivities. In order to keep from writing a book here, I'll keep the details fairly brief because I could go on for days.

Friday night we went to dinner by motor coach and then on to the Gold Jacket Ceremony - where each of the enshrinees received their jackets. Saturday morning we went to the parade and saw the class of 2010 plus many, many of the previous classes. Saturday afternoon we went to the Hall of Fame, walked around inside for a while and then went to the "pre enshrinement party". After that, we headed to the stadium to watch the class of 2010 become official members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Sunday morning we went to a luncheon where I got to shake the hands of all the members of the class of 2010!! :) Once we were done with lunch, we attended a round-table and had lots of laughs as the guys talked about some of their favorite football memories. That night we watched the Cowboys beat the Bengals in the Hall of Fame game....doesn't get much better than that.

If you couldn't tell, we had a great time.....the trip of a lifetime! The pictures in the slide show hardly begin to tell the story, but hopefully you get the idea! Enjoy! :)

***A BIG "thank you" goes out to Dave, my trip organizer, photographer, "stuff carrier", for being there with me and making it SO special - I love you so much!!!***


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