Mustangs @ Las Colinas

Opening in 1984 the Mustangs at Las Colinas are the largest horse scluptures in the world!! Located in Williams Square in Irving (near Dallas)  are nine realistic bronze horse scluptures are running across a stream.

Here are some pictures-- enjoy :)

Downtown Dallas

Fair Park

Dallas Fair Park is a 277-acre recreational and educational complex located in Dallas, Texas. The complex  is home to nine museums, six performance facilities, a lagoon, and the largest Ferris wheel in North America. Many of the buildings on the complex were constructed for the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 which drew over six million visitors. Most of the buildings built for the exposition still survive and Fair Park is recognized as a significant example of Art Deco architecture.

Texas Star- largest Ferris wheel in the USA

Discovery Gardens

 

 Lagoon

  Cotton Bowl

 

 Hall of State

 Magnolia Lounge

Old Mill Inn

I have arrived!! (sorry for the late posting)

Dallas Texas!!

It will be home for the next 13 weeks and I am staying in an apartment NOT a hotel room!!! I am thoroughly excited about my new place and the fact that it is soo HUGE. Plus, my aunt and uncle are super close by and my good friend from college- Ashley lives in the area too.

my HUGE kitchen :)

My Aunt Zanne & Uncle Konrad pictured with Reina 

my good friend Ashley from UMHB

I will be working at Children's in the Medical Center. My first 2 weeks here are filled with orientation and lectures. Lots and lots of computer training over their policies and procedures, computer charting system, and computer documentation.  The first week is all classroom lectures or computer classes and the second week is orientation on the various units I will be working. Since I'll be in variable staffing here I will be working all over the hospital.

All my belongings have been unpacked and my apartment is fully decorated! The only thing that got lost in the move from the Houston hotel to my mom's house in San Antonio to my apartment in Dallas is my wireless keyboard . . . still have not found it :(

*update- Just noticed I didn't publish this post yet. I have been here in Dallas for 3 weeks now. Finally off orientation at the hospital and so far things are going well. Everyday to get to work I take about 4-5 elevators just to get to the floor I'll be working on so as to be expected I am always LOST and if you ask me where a bathroom is located I probably don't know!!! But other than that everyone is really nice and helpful and patient. And here at Children's just like TCH in Houston-- nurses and staff have phones . . . still NOT a fan. 

Dallas Bloom!

At the Dallas Arboretum each year they have a huge spring flower festival called Dallas Bloom. This year it ran from March 6 to April 11 and I wanted to make sure I went!!! Not only do I LOVE taking pictures of flowers but spring is my favorite time of the year. I could do without the tons of oak pollen and many other blooming things that I am allergic too but it just comes with the season.

Dallas Bloom was just stunning!! Even driving through the parking lot I was distracted by all the tulips and daffodils everywhere. Once I got inside the Arboretum it was just BEAUTIFUL :)  I only had just over an hour before the garden closed and I was determined to see the entire arboretum-- well lets just say that didn't happen. I was able to see most of the gardens but mostly I stayed near the fields of tulips which happened to be all over the arboretum!! I would recommend anyone in the Dallas area next March/April to definitely go, you won't regret it!! 

Children's Medical Center- Dallas

Children's website

Children's Medical Center is the only academic healthcare system in Dallas-Fort Worth dedicated solely to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 18. Its mission as a private, not-for-profit, pediatric hospital system is “to make life better for children.”


Children's has grown to include two hospitals – one in Dallas and one in Plano – and several other outpatient centers. The hospital system's connection to the best medical school in the region, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, drives innovations and excellence in care.

Children's provides care ranging from neonatal critical care to sports medicine, from trauma to eating disorders. The system offers highly-specialized, nationally-recognized care for illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and blood disorders, and cystic fibrosis.

U.S. News & World Report and Parents named Children's and its specialty programs among the top ten in the nation. Many of its programs hold accreditations that no other hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth can claim. In 2009, Children's achieved nursing Magnet Recognition status by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practice.

FACTS

-- Children's was the first pediatric hospital in the nation accredited in all three modes of transportation: ground ambulance, helicopter and jet.



-- Children's has the largest heart center for children in Dallas-Fort Worth.


-- Children's developed the nation's first day surgery program for children.


-- The Children's Sleep Center is the only pediatric-specific sleep center in Dallas accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.


-- Children's Dallas has Texas' largest intensive care unit just for children.


-- Children's Dallas has the first pediatric-designated Level 1 trauma center in Texas.


-- Children's has the oldest comprehensive cancer survivor program in Dallas-Fort Worth.


-- The Children's Cystic Fibrosis Center is one of the largest centers for cystic fibrosis in Dallas-Fort Worth and is accredited as a “Center of Excellence” by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.


-- Children's is the first pediatric hospital to receive multiple disease-specific certifications from The Joint Commission.


-- Children's Dallas is the principal clinical site for the Southwestern Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center and the recipient of a multi-million dollar, five-year grant to develop treatments and a cure.


-- Children's has an active extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program for children with cardiac and cardiopulmonary diseases.