OK I'll come back and finish this another day. I gotta get ready for Girl Scouts tonight.
It's been... busy. haha
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
A mini road trip to see friends
Our good friends the B family invited us to visit them in Lubbock (about an hour or so away from us) and we decided it would be tons of fun to see them again. We took a day trip to see them and hang out with their family and see their campus. Dr B is a professor there at Texas Tech, and he and his team revamped the outdoor areas by the museum complex to turn the space into a nature preserve of sorts, with all local plants from a nearby ranch, a rocky water path for an eco-friendly complement to their low water plant selection, a design that makes use of soil, light, and plant arrangement in the best way ...etc. It is a very impressive space, even when in dormancy! And the museums nearby were also tons of fun to visit. We had lunch with them afterwards, and after lunch, we took the kids to a nearby park.
The museums- with a couple pictures of lunch in between:
My crazy children! I was careful not to tell them I was freaking out about the heights, in case it's contagious, but goodness- they were happy as could be, all those feet up from the floor. Haha! They had fun.
The Grandparents
Here are some pictures of the grandparents' last visit! There's been two visits this Spring, thanks to vaccination and good luck with scheduling. The kids have really enjoyed it. We're planning to visit them in OK in early May! Woot woot!
Now that I look at pictures from this second visit- I think we did a lot of "juegos de mesa" with them this visit! So much fun- learned a new version of mah-jongg (apparently there are many! not surprised, with how complicated that game is!) and even had an international game of Scrabble. Since we're into Risk of late, we also played that once. Good times.
Miss E has been using some Spanish in her games! I am so proud.
The next pictures (and I'll have to come back to insert a video or two) are from their spy game. One of those days, the grandparents and I took the kids to the book store. My in-laws got the kids some really cool books (a dinosaur book for Mr E and a Harry Potter Unofficial Cook Book) and also got them a set of walkie talkies (you can kind of see one in Mr E's hand in the picture below), which were immediately put to good use. The next morning, the kids followed me around for hours, reporting on my every movement to each other as I cleaned and gardened all day. It was hilarious. They were trying to do it without my noticing,though it was obvious to all that it was all big game, so at first I tried to play along and avoid eye contact, but later it turned into a hide and seek of sorts, with them following me until I acknowledged them and them calling retreat through their walkie talkies all the time. So then I had to go out of my way every once in a while to scare them back. Haha!
Mr E hiding from Grandpa.
Miss E hiding in the linen closet..
Ah! Here is the game of Risk. It was risky indeed. LoL.
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