Day 6

Friday we went out to breakfast with Matt's Gram and Uncle Mike.  We went to a very nice French cafe type place.  Yummy, yummy food!

 Grace decided that she wanted to wash the chairs with baby wipes.  We were willing to let her do it.  While she was doing it, Matt decided that she looked a bit like....

 

Cossette from Les Mis.  I must agree I do think there are some similarities there.

 Matt got a lot of group shots since this would be the last time we would be together for awhile.

 Glen just wanted to explore.

 Make sure to read the signs that were displayed.  This is my kind of place!
"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand"
"Remember stressed spelled backwards is desserts"

Chris, Katie, and Ellie left right after breakfast.  So after saying good bye, and naps, we headed off for....

 The Zoo!
We had to drop Steve and Sue off at the airport so we decided to go early and swing by the zoo.  Grace was determined that she was going to see dinosaurs at the zoo.  I told her no we will not see them.  This went on for weeks.  We walk in the zoo and the first thing that I see is a carousel with a dinosaur on it...
Well, Grace, I guess I was wrong.  There are dinosaurs at the zoo.

But there are also penguins,

And sleepy brothers,

And Grandpas,

And mommies,

And elephants,

And Grandmas (trying to beat the heat on a very, very hot TX day),

And giraffes,

There is so much more than just Dinosaurs.  Grace loved the elephant statue.

So much that we got a family picture on it. 

There was a stage at the bird location that Grace decided just had to be danced on.

Yes,  Grace you are "BIG"

"G" for Grace.

It was a fun, tiring, and hot day.  But I think that we all had a good time.

Day 5

At Matt's Gram's apartment, she had a lot of decorations hanging on her walls.  Glen loved to point them out to anyone who would listen.  He especially loved this chicken timer.  He is one boy who will notice, and talk (grunt) about anything!

 Today we went to Legoland.  I think that Matt and Chris had just as much fun (if not more) than the girls.  But as you can see in the picture below, the girls were pretty excited too.

 Yes, those are actual Legos that Grace is walking through, and yes, you can build with them.

 In fact, that is where Glen spent most of his time.  He also liked the giraffes that were made out of Legos.

 Here Grace is building with the big, big Legos.  There was a slide that went into this Lego pit, which she was too afraid to do, but it was a neat idea still.

 Right outside of Legoland there was an aquarium.  Glen liked looking at the fish tank.

 Back at Legoland, the girls discovered more different types of Legos.

While the fathers built Lego cars and raced them down the race track.

 On your mark, get set, GO!!!

 I do not know who won.  I do know that many times the cars came apart at the end.

 Back to Glen's favorite part of Legoland...the BIG blocks.

 There were lots of them!

 There was also an earthquake plate.

 You build a structure on the plate, then turn a dial which would make the plate shake.  Finally you can watch to see your structure crumble if it is not sturdy, or remain straight and tall.

 It did not take the girls long to find the pink princess karaoke room.  They loved singing and dancing up on the stage.  They even got a few of the adults to come up and dance with them.

There was so much more to this Legoland place.  I would highly recommend going if you ever have a chance.

Day 4

On Wednesday we went to the park, then to Matt's Gram's house to do some laundry.  We were afraid that we might have to do our laundry at Gram's and dry them at David's because Gram has a working washer but a broken dryer, and David has a working dryer but a broken washer.  Matt somehow fixed the dryer though so we got to do it all at his Gram's place.

After naps we headed out to a mall that has an indoor play area.  Lucky for us it also had a butterfly exhibit.

 We went in and there were hundreds of butterflies.  We were supplied with a Q-tip soaked in Kool-Aid, so that the butterflies would come and land on our Q-tips to eat.

 Grace loved it, till one of the butterflies landed on her....Oh, well it was good while it lasted.

 Glen was just happy to read the newspaper,

 And take yet another nap on Grandpa.

 The mall had this really neat item.  The tiles were touch sensitive so it would register where you stepped.  There was a projection screen from above that would change the picture.  So you would play games on the screen by running, jumping, dancing, etc.  There were about 8 different games that you could cycle through.  They loved it!

Back at the apartment, while waiting for all of our laundry to be done, we decided to play pool.  Matt's Gram needed to be with us while we played.  We had a great time, but I do not think she was too amused....it was a good time still.