All Good Things .......

We have really enjoyed being in Houston. Yesterday, we took the kids to the Children's Museum for a couple of hours. Bonus that the museum was in the mall so I got to run into the Texas store and Wendy bought each of the kids a souvenir. We came home in time for the kids to change into suits and jump in the pool for about 3.5 hours. For the second day in a row Dane staggered out and said he was tired and wanted to go to bed. Will wonders never cease?

Today, we hit Splashtown for 5 hours and mom was not as vigilant about getting the sunscreen on every 1/2 hour and we are all fried like catfish. Of course that didn't stop the kids from jumping back into the pool for an hour after dinner. They have loved Aunt Wendy's pool and would gladly take it home with us. We may need to rethink and buy a house with a pool.

Splashtown is the greatest water park I have ever been to. They have lots of slides for kids of all ages and the best play areas for the little kids that I have ever seen. The biggest slide is called the Texas Freefall and you literally climb 5 stories up and then drop straight down. Spencer, the kids' 14 year old cousin, was challenging them to do it and and would you believe that Reagan and Kale both did? Not this momma. Dane and I went on some slides his size about 30 times. Despite him running for all those hours at the water park and swimming tonight, we could not get 3 out of 3 nights with him falling asleep on his own. I had to drag him out of the pool at 8:30pm to get into the shower. I gave him Tylenol for his sunburn and Melatonin and even then it took another 1/2 hour for him to drift off.

The next couple of days are going to be long driving days. We will spend the night in Hattiesburg, Mississippi tomorrow night and then bust the rest of the way home on Friday. Originally, I had planned to spend a day in New Orleans but I have repeatedly heard that it is still less than completely safe and I have never been there and know nothing about what to do and where to go on a good day. So just decided my route today and am more in the mood to get home than find something interesting in Beaumont, LaFayette, Baton Rouge, or Hattiesburg. Does that make me a lame boring mother?