Warm Texas!

We had an awesome time visiting grandparents in Dallas not long ago. Besides all the fun we had with Grandmerr and Grandpa (which was considerable) we enjoyed the chance to dust off our light jackets and venture outside without gloves! Nathan spent a lot of the time we were there making casseroles out of 30-year-old Fisher-Price people (someday we'll show him Soylent Green, but not for a while) and serving them to us--they were delicious, 1979 F-P being a fine vintage! Rachel's favorite pastime was arranging throw pillows into long dining tables and assigning seats to various dolls and toys.

And, of course, we got to sample some real Tex-Mex food, which is hard to find at home. Nathan and Rachel liked it--they are their father's children!


One highlight of our visit was a trip to the Dallas World Aquarium (If you're ever in the Big D, make sure to stop by--it is unlike any aquarium I've ever visited--there were as many monkeys and birds as there were fish, and it all felt very organic and ecosystem-based.) where Rachel and Nathan learned to "Do the Flamingo."


Rachel wanted to take this photo of a lizard for Uncle Dan.


Nathan, in his current fashion, demanded to spend a lot of the time "Uppah!" In fairness, most things were probably easier to see this way than from his usual vantage point.


Our little world travelers did a great job on the plane. They also displayed a remarkable talent for finding big open spaces in airports in which to run around being airplanes themselves, which is a very useful skill.

Thanks, Grandpa and Grandmerr, for a terrific visit! (And happy birthday!)