NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK

Finally, the NKOTB Cd is out.... yea I know.... but it was the only group I liked growing up. And it bring back many memories of the trip I took to spend a month with my friend in Maryland when I was 13ish. All those hrs looking at the poster of Jordan and Joey... all those hours watching MTV hoping their video would show.... AHhh Memories...
Actually, I really like one of the song (summertime) as you can tell from my playlist!!! Even Jody says it's not too bad (and that's good since he really doesn't like the NKOTB). He was even sweet enough to get me tickets to their tour in Oct. I will get to relive part of my childhood.

Houston Zoo

Spent Labor Day at the Zoo. We weren't too sure about going to the Zoo after going to San Diego zoo last time (all the animals were asleep or too far away to see), But to our surprise we had a really fun day. It was pretty cool and not to humid (on account of the hurricane almost here!) We got to see alot of the animals. The kids had the most fun feeding the squirrels!!! I think our favorite animals were the ZEBRA's ( got tons of pictures of them until my battery died... then took a ton with our phones!!!!) the meerkats were very fun to watch and then the orangutans. One was so funny.... missed taking the video when it peed in front of the whole crowd, and on her hand and then licked it... you should of heard the groans and laughs from the crowd!!!! The orangutan would hide under a piece of cardboard when it would start raining.. It was so cute!!! I picked up a shirt that has a row of animals and the zebra has painted them all with black and white stripes!!! At the end of the day... we still had some goldfish left from feeding the squirrel so we started feeding the monkeys.... talk about seeing the social order... we finally figured out how to trick the most dominate ones so that the others would get to eat too... it was so fun. The looks that those monkeys would give us....!!! Really fun day!!!!

Houston Space Center

We spent a day at the Houston Space Center. It was a really nice day (spent mostly indoors!!!) It was really fun to see the control centers. We saw the current day one, and the one that they used during all but one of the Apollo flights. It was interesting to see the old control room as they had the old rotary dial phones, no computer keyboard, etc... they used 5 guys to figure a calculation out and when 4 agreed they would go ahead with it.... the fifth guy either agreed or left!!!! Was really fun to see my mom's cousins flight picture and patch. (he is the guy on the top left (Don Lind))
Hayley was chosen out of the audience to participate in the show to show how life is like on the space shuttles. She did such a good job!!! Got the crowd laughing quite a few times.... especially when they showed her the toilet and had her hold onto a tube and then proceeded to tell her what it was used for..... (to suck the pee) The look on her face was priceless... she was quite happy when the lady took it back from her!!!! She is so good in front of crowds!!!
Before we left we stopped at the gift shop and picked up some Freeze dried Chocolate ice cream with choc. chips and some freeze dried apples with cinnamon to eat on the way home. They were actually really good!!!!

George Ranch Historical Park- Tx

We decided to do the tourist thing this weekend and bought the Houston City pass. The first stop was the Historical ranch in Houston. It has been here since 1824 and is a 23,000 acre working ranch. It was really fun to go inside the houses that they have set up with all the artifacts from each time period. The kids had a blast! I think they had the most fun with the cows that were by the parking lot!!! We made a reservation for lunch and had the traditional dinner that the share croppers would have cooked. Homemade venison and pork sausage, cornbread, greens, and dewberry cobbler..... YUM!!! The Victorian house was the neatest. I think I could have lived well during that time period. The blacksmith shop was really fun too. Chyanne got a J hook that the blacksmith made just for her. She wants to go back and volunteer there so she can learn how to blacksmith!!! Maybe if we volunteer, I could find an excuse to make my southern bell dress that I have wanted to make for yrs!!