Saturday, June 25, 2011

Mini-vacay with the Viavattenes!

At the end of June, we took a mini-vacation to Dallas with Dana, Joey and Reid!  We left Parker with my mom and they left Maren with Dana's mom.  Hayden and Reid were in heaven to be only-children again.. haha  We started off our day at the Dallas World Aquarium.  It was a lot of fun and nice to be indoors. 
Hayden's favorite was the penguins... we even got to see them eat fish!

We were all amazed at how big the manatees were
 We ended our day by taking the boys to a Rangers game.  David hooked us up with some great tickets on the 3rd base line.  Everyone was having a good time until the 3rd inning when the boys decided they were bored and wanted to go home... haha  But, they stuck it out with the help of peanuts, sugary drinks and souvenir 18-wheeler trucks from the gift kiosk.  (-:
Waiting for the rickshaw ride to the stadium

Dirk Nowitzki threw out the first pitch

Our family (plus Hayden's souvenir truck)

The Viavattenes
Our mini-vacation was great until we woke up the next day at the hotel and walked downstairs to our vehicles.  Someone decided that my leather bag laying in the floor board was too tempting and smashed out my drivers side rear window.  Argh!  Luckily, I had taken my wallet and everything important out of it and up to the game with us, just didn't take the bag because it was too big to carry into the game.  It was a long hot ride back to Wichita Falls.  Luckily, we stopped in Denton and let Jeff tape and cardboard it up so it wasn't as bad as it could've been.  He did a ghetto-fabulous job!  Thank Jeff!  Thanks also to the Viavattenes for staying with us while we filed a police report and cleaned up the glass and to Yoshi at Patterson's for getting my glass fixed so quickly.  I could've gone with out the break-in but we still had a great time! 

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