You know that scene in Harry Potter where they are working with the bogarts and one of them turns into a huge spider on roller skates? Well, that's kind of what Andrew looks on roller skates. Yup, that's right, Andrew and Alexis went roller skating for the first time last Saturday. If there hadn't been arcade games there to distract Andrew, skating with him may have been more successful, but overall for a first time it wasn't too bad. Sorry no pictures, hard enough keeping the kids on there feet, i didn't even try to get my phone at the same time. Some funny notes for the day..
On the way to the rink, I was telling Grant that the fugitive that had been on the loose here had been killed in a standoff with the police and that I guess he got his wish about not going back to jail and Andrew pipes up and says "we can't go to jail." Alexis said "Jail's bad" and Andrew says "we never going to jailhouse, No jailhouse" just funny to hear a 2 yr old talking about a jailhouse as if he knew what it was. Then we get in the rink and he sees the skates and says "I need my skateboards" he got his skates and says "look mommy, skateboards on my boots" the whole day he never shortened skateboards to skates. Alexis did well when she wasn't thinking about what she was doing or telling me that I would make her go too fast.
Anyway, it was something new to try, hopefully more to come.
February 16, 2013
February 3, 2013
Dublin trip & Hopper - summer catch up
This past weekend (June 23) we decided to head down to Dublin, TX to use the Groupon that I bought for the Dr. Pepper Museum & Old Docs Soda Shop. Unfortunately, I bought the Groupon about a week before all of the lawsuit mess with Dr. Pepper Corporation, so no Dublin DP for us at the end of the tour.
On our way, we decided to stop in Glen Rose at Hammond's BBQ (story from menu pictured below). The kids were fairly well behaved especially for having been strapped down in the car for a while. Andrew ate grilled cheese and Alexis ate chicken strips and Grant and I enjoyed BBQ. Both kids had their pic taken with a life size cardboard cut out of John Wayne. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to go to the Glen Rose square so that will have to happen on another trip.
After leaving Glen Rose, we headed the rest of the way to Dublin through the northern section of an area known as the Texas Hill Country. It was a beautiful drive! (unfortunately, no pics of that). We arrived at Dublin Bottling Works shortly after the kids fell asleep in the car (of course) and about 15 minutes before a tour. So we took a few pictures of the Sand Sculpture, the traditional sign, and the Bronze sculpture. In doing this, I had my first true encounter with a Texas-sized grasshopper as he leapt at my face and landed on a plant on the window. The thing was huge and looked exactly like Hopper from A Bug's Life
The tour began with a taste of a couple of their sodas. Andrew kept begging for it but was riding on Daddy's shoulders so he wasn't trusted with too many sips. Pictures were only allowed at the very beginning. We saw how they judge a "perfect root beer". It used to be done by candle light but now they have a little lit up box they sit them in. I missed a little of the next part because children need to go to the bathroom at the most inopportune times as a general rule. But we essentially saw the bottling line, how the syrup gets mixed with the carbonation to keep the bottles from cracking and then mixing for the perfect consistency. After this we got a bit more history on the family and those that have run Dublin Bottling Works as well as Peggy Pepper and the marketing of DP as an energy drink. Andrew wanted to take home every piece of memorobilia that was a car or truck with an old logo.
After that we got our treats. They make Frosties which are kind of like an ice cream float but a lot more ice cream and it's just the syrup used to mix their sodas. Andrew was only allowed ice cream since we have learned that he is a hyped up crazy monkey when he has sugar (I'll get to that in a post about Father's Day), Grant had the "Dublin Original Soda Frostie" i.e. Part of the last of the Dublin DP syrup with his ice cream and Alexis and I had our Blue Bell Original Ice Cream mixed with the Orange Cream Soda syrup. They were delicious to say the least.
We picked up a few souvenirs and left happy to have taken another 1 day excursion to a place we had never been. On the way back, we stopped and met some friends that we had not seen in a few years just to catch up and let the kids run off some energy.
Monday night, while making a quick run to Target, my car was attacked by one of Hopper's relatives. Seriously, these grasshoppers are probably as big as my index finger and are not afraid of anything. Sheesh!
On our way, we decided to stop in Glen Rose at Hammond's BBQ (story from menu pictured below). The kids were fairly well behaved especially for having been strapped down in the car for a while. Andrew ate grilled cheese and Alexis ate chicken strips and Grant and I enjoyed BBQ. Both kids had their pic taken with a life size cardboard cut out of John Wayne. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to go to the Glen Rose square so that will have to happen on another trip.
After leaving Glen Rose, we headed the rest of the way to Dublin through the northern section of an area known as the Texas Hill Country. It was a beautiful drive! (unfortunately, no pics of that). We arrived at Dublin Bottling Works shortly after the kids fell asleep in the car (of course) and about 15 minutes before a tour. So we took a few pictures of the Sand Sculpture, the traditional sign, and the Bronze sculpture. In doing this, I had my first true encounter with a Texas-sized grasshopper as he leapt at my face and landed on a plant on the window. The thing was huge and looked exactly like Hopper from A Bug's Life
The tour began with a taste of a couple of their sodas. Andrew kept begging for it but was riding on Daddy's shoulders so he wasn't trusted with too many sips. Pictures were only allowed at the very beginning. We saw how they judge a "perfect root beer". It used to be done by candle light but now they have a little lit up box they sit them in. I missed a little of the next part because children need to go to the bathroom at the most inopportune times as a general rule. But we essentially saw the bottling line, how the syrup gets mixed with the carbonation to keep the bottles from cracking and then mixing for the perfect consistency. After this we got a bit more history on the family and those that have run Dublin Bottling Works as well as Peggy Pepper and the marketing of DP as an energy drink. Andrew wanted to take home every piece of memorobilia that was a car or truck with an old logo.
After that we got our treats. They make Frosties which are kind of like an ice cream float but a lot more ice cream and it's just the syrup used to mix their sodas. Andrew was only allowed ice cream since we have learned that he is a hyped up crazy monkey when he has sugar (I'll get to that in a post about Father's Day), Grant had the "Dublin Original Soda Frostie" i.e. Part of the last of the Dublin DP syrup with his ice cream and Alexis and I had our Blue Bell Original Ice Cream mixed with the Orange Cream Soda syrup. They were delicious to say the least.
We picked up a few souvenirs and left happy to have taken another 1 day excursion to a place we had never been. On the way back, we stopped and met some friends that we had not seen in a few years just to catch up and let the kids run off some energy.
Monday night, while making a quick run to Target, my car was attacked by one of Hopper's relatives. Seriously, these grasshoppers are probably as big as my index finger and are not afraid of anything. Sheesh!
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