Spring Break 2008

We had a great Spring Break with the boys. We stayed in Fort Worth and basically acted like tourists in our own town. Thankfully, there is a lot to do around here. My one regret is that we did not make it down to Fossil Rim. We will have to get there another weekend sometime soon. Another thing that made spring break so nice this year was that the public school districts here all went back to school as our spring break was starting, so all the popular activities/attractions were not crowded.



Of course the first night, per tradition, was ICE CREAM FOR DINNER NIGHT! Thank Goodness I had not started Body for Life yet!
We went bowling and out to totally yummy, but completely unhealthy dinners. We took the boys to the Cattlepen Maze and watched our little boys act like rats in a maze while we laughed on the observation landing up above.

Once the boys found their way out, we strolled around the Stockyards and had an early Mexican dinner outside. After a margarita or two, Rich may our may not have been dancing at the table. Since we are not at all competitive, Rich and I had a race to see who could finish all the mazes and word searches on the kids' menu first.

We had to wait for the longhorns to make their way down Exchange Avenue before we could get in our car to head home.

The Next day we headed down to Austin because A) Austin is awesome, and B) To spring Rich' s Nana out of the assisted living facility for the afternoon. Her first request was for some spicy enchiladas because as she said, "They feed us boring bland food like we are old people." This cracked me up! Then she said she'd like to drive around the UT campus a bit. We obliged and she did some reminiscing about her college days and asked if the boys would consider attending school there. I tried to explain to her that this is impossible since Texas has the oh-so-freaking-stupid 10% rule (post about this in the near future), but the Alzheimer's was not helping her to understand. And, I should have known better than to try to have that kind of discussion with her. After that she went to Barton Springs with us and we all took the train-obsessed Grant for a ride on the Zilker Zephyr around the park.

We let the boys go for a dip in the springs (crazy fools - its freaking COLD!) We headed back north to Fort Worth after smuggling a Wendy's Single, fries, and coke back into the care facility with Nana.

SIDE NOTE: Here is something I think about everytime we are on the road: What would Laura Ingalls say if she could see this? Seriously, from her perspective...Not only can we drive 80mph down a paved interstate, but we can watch movies and have cold drinks and snacks while we do it. It would blow her mind. Do any of you ever have weird thoughts like this about how far we've come?

We also took the kids to Six Flags (ugh!) I'm not a theme park kind of girl. But, they had a blast and even I had some fun. Grant was seriously pissed that they kept telling him he was too short to ride the roller coasters.

I was sad for the boys to go back to school, and for life to go back to our normal routine. Only 8 more full weeks of school before summer vacation though!!!