A Birthday and the Sixth Floor Museum

Day 4 was Coleman's birthday!  We had lunch at Chuy's which was great, but they didn't sing him Happy Birthday. :( 

It has become a tradition to buy Coleman a shirt from wherever we eat on his birthday.  

Here is this year's purchase:

Our outing for the day was to the Sixth Floor Museum.  There was no photography allowed upstairs, but we did take a picture in the lobby.

The museum is a self-guided audio tour of the events leading up to and directly following the assassination of President Kennedy.  They even had kid versions for the little ones.  This is a must stop for any trip to Dallas.  The kids were very interested and asked lots of questions. 

On the grassy knoll

The location of the fatal shot

From this window (second row from the top, far left) is where Oswald shot the president.  It remains open and the area inside is left just as it was that day.

Outside the Texas School Book Depository

Then we headed home because Meme and Grandy were coming for the birthday celebration!

Trains, Planes and Mustangs

Day 3 we decided that whatever we did must be INSIDE because have I mentioned that IT.IS.HOT?

It was raining when we woke up on Sunday and thankfully, the heat finally broke.

We started our day at the Trainscape at Children's Hospital where my brother-in-law works.  It is the largest permanent model train exhibit in the country.

The kids loved it.  There were lots of "treasures" to find in the exhibit, such as Wonder Woman, a T-Rex, and Puss-in-Boots.

There was even a Harley store (for Laura!)

After a quick stop for lunch, we headed out to DFW airport to visit Observation Station.  We knew the kids would get a kick out of watching the planes take off and land and hearing the control tower transmissions.  Unfortunately, when we got to where we thought it was, the road was barricaded.  Maybe this is no longer around because of post-911 security?  We were disappointed, but the kids still enjoyed seeing the planes taxiing on the runways across the road!

After our tour through the airport, we headed to Los Colinas to the Mustang Sculptures.

This is the largest equestrian sculpture in the world;

nine wild mustangs (including two babies) running through a "stream."

The kids tolerated having their picture made and then did their best to get wet playing in the water. (And were successful!)

But the HIGHLIGHT of the day was dinner at Queen B's house!!!  The king cooked dinner for us (words cannot describe the fajitas.  Seriously, the best meal I've had!) and we had a wonderful visit.  We are so glad they were insane delusional nice enough to have our group of nine over!!  Thankfully the kids did not break anything at the castle.  And two little girls were pretty excited that they were allowed to try on the Queen's REAL tiara!

Happy Birthday, Coleman!!!!!!

 My sweetest child:

Happy 9th birthday!!!!!

Baking with Aunt Andrea

All good cooks need a sous chef!

Dinner With the Queen

We are having dinner at Queen B's house tonight!  

Coleman said, "I've never met a real queen before!"

(Hmmm, me either.)

Everything Really is Bigger in Texas

Look!  A real cowboy!!!

Here's Your Sign

Funny sign:

Please note that the space is for lease (and the business is closed.)  I guess there wasn't a lot of work for Brains by the Hour.