What a whirlwind trip we had this week to Odesssa, Midland, Marfa, and Balmorhea, I am pretty sure we put about 1500 miles in total on our trip and let me say the girls did great!! We left San Antonio Tuesday night and drove to Odessa after a stop at Dairy Queen. This was a funny stop because there was about 7 cars in the parking lot, but nobody inside eating. It was a little freaky i guess :). We got to Odessa at about midnight and we were exhausted. Driving those roads at night we had to drive slow after getting off I-10 and saw about 30+ deer on the side of the roads just waiting to jump out in front of us LOL.
Once we arrived safely we all went to bed, Kristi's mom even got up to help us get situated, the new room on their house is awesome. It stays cool and has a 73inch HDTV, great for football and we watched Cars on it and it was sweeeeeeeeeeeet!! On Wednesday we went to visit the nursing home where her mom, tia and Stacy work, I'm pretty sure that all of the residents, employees and anyone else who will listen know everything about Kallison and Aida LOL. They made lots of new friends at the home and even tried to escape a few times. They got to play with the big dogs at the home and walked around the back for a while also. A great time was had by all. I even got to meet the head gardener and saw all the tomatoes and other veggies he was growing.
That evening we got to have some awesome chicken fried steak!! and Pibb Zero which we can't find in san antonio for some reason, we like Pibb Zero.
Thursday we headed over to Midland for a full day. We went to the duck pond (Duck Pond Pictures) and the girls had a blast feeding the ducks, the geese were pretty mean though. Kallison and Aida liked the ducks until they surrounded them and then they were not too happy about them. One of the ducks stole a cookie from Kallison!! The pics on flickr are hilarious! Next we went to the MARC park in Midland also called Opportunity park and spent some time playing on the slides, swings, etc. They love to be outside but it got pretty hot so we headed over to the children's museum, they traveled the U.S. U.S. Video, played at the beach, were on TV, went to a bank, etc at the museum it was great, but mostly it was nice to be indoors in the A/C.
After we left the museum we went to Sonic (never again, except for sodas at happy hour) and for some reason the sonic in midland is 20% more expensive then the one in Odessa. Not to mention Kristi's burger looked like it went through a tornado before it came out :). Everytime we go to sonic anywhere it seems like they 1. Mess up an order and 2. are way overpriced. I think we are done with that place.
Next we went to Hospice of Midland (forgot to add this earlier) and spent some time there showing off the girls and chatting. They did not like the puppets, maybe too young for that, but we had a great visit. They do some amazing work there and are a great group of people.
In the evening we went to Sam and Angie's house for some family, food and fun (lots of fun). I think they were surprised about how big Kallison and Aida are and that they can walk LOL. Sydney and Shelby had fun playing with their cousins and then we all hopped on the trampoline for a while. Ok I am pretty sure i had the most fun with that, we were playing keep away, soccer tag (Sydney invented that game), and then more keep away. I think we all played for about 2 hours on the trampoline LOL. These girls are getting big and we had a blast! Thanks to Angie for taking some great pics: Seeing Double. Lori and her girls stopped by to visit also and Payton came out to play on the trampoline also, Sam and Angie had a full house LOL, good times were had by all.
(next post will be about the rest of our trip...)
1 comments:
Those are some beautiful girls of all ages on the "Seeing Double" pics.
Ducks are everywhere in Midland!
Looks like a good time was had by all!
Wes
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