Family Fun Friday: Fair Park

Until today, I had not been to Fair Park in Dallas except to visit the State Fair of Texas. It didn't even seem like the same place without thousands of people and the smell of some kind of food being fried. We had fun strolling around the gardens, watching paddle boaters, and munching on some shaved ice. Brooke liked looking at the fish at the aquarium. Most of all we just enjoyed being together. 

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Family Fun Friday, er Thursday

We are trying to take advantage of Fridays this summer because David is only working Monday through Thursday mornings. I thought we could plan something fun to do together as a family every Friday. 

Well we are off to a rough start. Family Fun Fridays were supposed to start last Friday with the Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco, which we could have dropped by on the way to NB. We were all set to go until we remembered that we were taking the dog with us and we simply could not leave her in the car. Doh!

This week we were determined to have a fun family Friday. Then our Friday started filling up with other things. Before we realized it, we were booked! So we decided to have it the day before and still count it.

We packed a lunch and headed to the Heard Natural Science Museum & Nature Center in McKinney.

We saw several exotic animals including a wallaby and this lemur trying to beat the heat (and boy was it hot)!

Slightly disturbing...

Blue skies smiling at me, nothing but blue skies do I see.

Stopping for lunch on the trail. Brooke is munching on a strawberry, her favorite!

Note: If you decide to go here DO NOT attempt to take a stroller on the trails as we did. Live and learn! Something cool they do have though is free baby backpack rental. Next time we will definitely utilize that option!

Yay for nature!

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