Big D outings

When Sam got home, we all went to the Dallas Museum of Nature & Science.  Our local museum membership was good for free entrance into the museum.  (We also got in free to the Children's Museum in Houston and the Science Museum in Oklahoma City).  We weren't sure what to expect, but when you know it's a free outing it's hard to go wrong.  The boys were disappointed there were no dinosaur bones (part of the museum was a little lame), but they had a good time in the children's museum.  We watched a shark dissection, and Jared was brave enough to touch and hold it after the presentation.  Pretty cool.      

After the museum, we went to Babe's Chicken for dinner.  Good stuff.  Thanks Sam and Aud! 

One afternoon while Weston and Eli were sleeping, I took the 3 oldest to Nickelmania.  It was advertised as an arcade where all the games were a nickel to play.  I knew the boys would love that, and they did.  The only disappointing thing was that most of the games were 3 or 4 nickels or more to play.  Oh well.  After all their combined tickets (370?), they ended up with a tiny plastic cone, a mini pop up toy, a sticky little blue spider man, a mini lizard, a sticker, and 2 suckers...  good thing our money was well spent on silly plastic little toys!  You have to win A LOT of tickets to get anything cool.

It was a hoot to watch the boys playing the whack-an-alligator game.

On the way back to Houston, I took the boys to a big indoor playplace called "Going Bonkers".  It looked like a really fun place.  Nathan and Jared really enjoyed it, but it took Owen & Weston a while to get into playing.  They just wanted to sit and watch cartoons and eat popcorn.  Eventually they were brave enough to climb and play too.  It was a little overwhelming when we first got there - 3 bus loads of kids from different groups happened to be there that day.  Such luck.  It wasn't as crowded when they all headed to lunch.