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Thursday, August 01, 2013

Perot Science and Nature Museum

Dallas recently opened a new science & nature museum
and we are in love with it.
There are so many things to do and to learn and to touch
and to play with!!

This one trip we went with our friends the
Greenig's.
With her 6 kids and by 5 kids,
Kaylene and I were a little out numbered.
They are standing on a earthquake simulator pad.
It's cool to have it shake just like the ones I
grew up with in California.

This simple machine you put disks on one side 
that have pictures of food you like and the other
of activities like swimming, dancing, jogging.
It shows you by the weight of the food you chose
how much activity you must do to burn it off.

This tube lets the kids put light weight triangles in it and
the machine blows it up in the air
showing the tunnel pattern.

Ben was determined to build something amazing.

His mission accomplished!

Sydney followed these tablets with different directions
on creating electrical current.

Keira found the station where she could build a
remote controlled vehicle.

And then drive it around.

Emma made music.

Dan was in drum heaven. 


In the bird section the kids can wear
3-d glasses and fly like a bird.

Its almost like an xbox kinect.

In the sports section you can race...

Emma is racing against a professional soccer player.

The kids go up to this screen and select something 
or someone to race against.


You can also race against a college track star, a cheetah
or T-Rex.



In this room the kids choose a sport to do
and get recorded doing it.
Then a video shows them in slow motion.





Monday, May 27, 2013

Memorial Day Zoo Trip

What happens when adults go to the zoo
with cute kids?
WAY to many pictures!
That's what!

It was great to spend the day
with Byron and Teena Burke.


A few times around the merry-go-round to start us off.


I don't know how they ride this.
It makes mom and dad puke!


We love to watch the lion show.
These two brother lions put on a great show.





 Our first time going on the 
brand new train ride.


 







Feeding the giraffes took longer then
usual.
At first they kind of ignore our delicious
green lettuce but eventually came
over for them.




A little ride on the monorail to rest our legs..




Dan's first time on the pony.
He tight-gripped my shirt at first
but after a few steps he was happy.




Saturday, May 11, 2013

Couples Group Date

Do you remember these books?
Where you could pick how the book would go?

We are lucky to have some fun couples that love to 
different things for date nights and found
this great idea from a "couples group dating"
website called Dating Divas.

So one Saturday night 3 couples got
together to Choose Our Own Adventure!

Larry and I

Spencer and Tammy

Alfer and Camille

To start the men were handed envelopes with poems in them.
They had to solve the poem that was a clue to different
restaurants to eat at.
Then they chose "sCRUMBScious" as our dinner for the night.

Tammy handed out more slips of paper to each of us.
They told us funny things to do while we drove in the car.
Like honk and wave to a stranger.
Find a out of state license and shout at them
"welcome to TEXAS ya'll"!!

During dinner there were more slips telling us different 
experiences to share or funny things to say or do.
Larry had to do 1 verse of the hokey pokey.
I had to answer the waiter when asked if I liked
my meal..."this is the best night of my life!"

After dinner the girls were give envelopes
with poems that gave us clues to our next stop.
We choose playing "walmart bingo".
We split into 2 groups Boys vs. Girls.
And to prove that we found one of the squares
a picture had to be taken with one of the
players in it.

THE GIRLS FOUND...
Someone with sunglasses on?
CHECK! 

A person wearing camo?
CHECK 

A kid playing in the toy aisle?
CHECK

A couple flirting?
CHECK

THE BOYS FOUND....
A child playing with toys?
CHECK

A couple wearing matching shirts?
CHECK

Someone wearing overalls?
CHECK

We had such a fun night.
We were laughing so hard at all the pictures,
we ended up calling it a night
before we got in trouble!!