Road Trip to Allen
Posted on October 13, 2025 by Ching under Food and Drink, Travel.
Since I wrote about Chama already, I won’t write about it again. However, I will use this post to write about all the other things we did that weekend. As you know, we were down in the DFW area celebrating our 23rd wedding anniversary in August but we found ourselves back there again last month for the Chicken N Pickle ambassador event in Allen, Texas.
For most of our road trips, we try to stay at Hyatt Place because (a) they are pet friendly and only charge a $75 pet cleaning fee, and (b) I can use my Chase Rewards points. On this visit, we stayed at the Hyatt Place in Allen, TX. I had to take picture of the door because their address number is 333, which is a throwback to our Texas hold’em days.
Saki is such a good girl. We love taking her on road trips whenever we can.
We met our friend Laurie Adams for happy hour at the Lazy Dog down the street from our hotel on Friday night. This was actually a wonderful surprise because I originally thought we would have to drive to Grapevine. Come to find out, there are several Lazy Dog locations throughout Texas and there was one about five minutes from our hotel.
Here are some pictures of our food.
You can’t go for happy hour and not have any drinks, obviously. So here are some drink pics. The cocktail sampler was not part of the happy hour specials but I still had to try it.
The next day, I played in the Chicken N Pickle ambassador team event at the Allen, TX CNP alongside Laure, Bee Bandasack, and Tom Pham.
We had dozens of ambassadors from at least seven Chicken N Pickle locations converge for some friendly competition. It was a great time!
Here’s a little highlight video I made of the event:
It was such a fabulous weekend. I can’t wait to do it all again.
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