We began our day EARLY by catching the 7:30 am Southwest flight out of Houston bound for Dallas, where we were to arrive by 8:30. Here are the kids on the van heading from the parking garage to the airport. Don't they look excited?
Once arriving in Dallas and Lynn picking the clan up at the airport, we stopped and had a wonderful breakfast at Mama's Daughter's Diner. All I can say is the service is beyond excellend and the food was delicious! Two thumbs up for this place and would reccomend it to anyone in the Dallas area! Anyway, once we finished stuffing ourselves full of the fabulous food, we headed back to Lynn's where he opened his Christmas presents early, as you can see by the picture!
Now it was time to work off our yummy breakfast. We all took off on foot from Lynn's place and headed to the bus stop so we could catch the 31 or 51 to the train station. Now, anyone who knows me, knows I am not a great public transportation rider, but...I was up for the adventure....for awhile! Once we reached the bus stop, several blocks later, we waited...and waited...and waited......until we finally called and it would be another 15 minutes or so until the next bus. I voted we walk back to Lynn's and get the car and just drive to the train station. And we did. So back we went and in the car we got and off we were...train station bound. Finally, we are on the train. Here are Byron and James enjoying the ride!
We now have arrived to Fair Park and it looks deserted!!! I'm thinking, "Oh no, now what. The kids are going to be so bored!" But, we took off on foot and looked around and Lynn found that the museums were open so it wasn't a loss...just not crowed, which was great! We took the time to go to the planetarium, which was not impressive at all, but the kids seemed to enjoy it enough to make it worth the time. We kinda just walked and looked and took a few snap shots here and there. Here is one of me and the kids with an elephant statue (I LOVE elephants).
After Fair Park, we rode the train back to the car and went and had a nice lunch at Cafe Express. From there we were off the bowl! Ok, now we haven't bowled in a bowling alley in YEARS! We usually only bowl on our Wii and we are Pros on that thing, so we are thinking we will kick some butt, right? Oh how wrong we were! It was hilarious! And the poor employees at the alley had to keep getting James' ball unstuck from the center of the lane because it just didn't have enough momentum to get to the pins. But, it was great fun. Here are a couple of pictures, one of the ONLY ball Lynn threw and one of James rolling the ball down the lane.
Once the bowling was done...and I won the game...we had to head back to Lynn's, gather our stuff, and head back to the airport to catch our 7:00 pm Southwest flight back to Houston. We got to the airport at 6:00 and managed to catch the 6:30 flight and arrive back to our house by 8:00! It was a wonderfully exhausting day and we all enjoyed to its fullest. We love Lynn and always enjoy the time we get to spend with him!
