Snake Farm Zoo

I was able to be a chaperone on Grant's kindergarten field trip to the Animal Snake Farm Zoo here in New Braunfels followed by picnic and play at Landa Park. It was so fun to have this time with him. I'm so glad that the twins were able to spend the day with Danny at Texas State University while I was able to go be with him. Danny wasn't able to get as much work done as he would have liked but the nice thing was that he had already given his class their final exams and so it was just inputing their grades. Thank you Danny! Seriously thank you. It meant a lot to me and Grant and it meant a lot to Rylee and Quinn.

This was the same place that I was able to chaperone last year with Hudson's kindergarten class. Now we just need to get Danny and the girls there to experience it.

We thought it was so awesome that they had a komodo dragon. I don't remember seeing this last year and believe it might be my first time ever.

These monkeys were LOUD. I only got a small glimpse of them on video.

Grant asked to go back and look at the komodo dragon again.

There's a possibility that we might move to Australia for a job so Grant really liked seeing this Australian bird at the zoo.

Landa Park

These girls thought it was so awesome to be with their Daddy at his work today.

Score!

 Grant scored! It was for the wrong team, but he scored!

NASA 🚀

We got to check off something from our Texas bucketlist! NASA! 🚀 With Grandma and Grandpa here this past week we decided to take a little adventure into Houston to explore the space station. We headed out after the kids got out of school on Thursday and skipped school on Friday. I had already packed everyone's bags and was hoping we could head out right away. My plan was that if we got there early enough we could walk the boardwalk or explore a nearby pier. I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing the beach. The only problem was that we didn't have a place to stay booked and everyone else wanted to get that sorted before we left the house. I had a list of very cheap options that I was ready to do but I'm glad things worked out the way that they did. We didn't go with my plan which canceled my plan for how the evening would go, but we did stay in a much nicer place that fit all of us comfortably. The house that we ended up booking was so nice. I wish we could have stayed longer. Especially because it was so close to the beach, we definitely could have spent a whole day at the beach. It would have been fun. We decided to get back for everyone's soccer games on Saturday though so it was a quick 24 hours. Every time we go to Houston I leave wanting to go back. I even told Danny that I could see us living there. Maybe I need to remind myself of how hot and humid it gets in the summer. But then again that's not a bad problem when you're close to the beach right? Anyway it was a quick trip and I'm glad we did it.

I love city skylines.

Donuts for breakfast. 👍

Rylee's Song. She sang this all morning.

Pictures from online

Now on to the space center.

'One of only eight lunar rocks in the world available to be touched by the public.'

(Rylee in green, Quinn in yellow)

We told the kids that while in Houston we can stop at the McDonald's near NASA because it's a themed one. It wasn't as cool as the themed one we went to in Roswell but it was still cool, and honestly the kids would probably say it was the highlight of their trip. Unfortunately while trying to get all the kids in the car to leave NASA Rylee got her finger stuck in the sliding van door. Poor girl cried so hard. Thankfully she was able to move it so we knew it wasn't broken. It was also nice to have Grandma Donna there with her EMT training. She was able to get her bandaged up and feeling back to normal.