!We have found some time to enjoy a few park days...but not many. Hopefully with the cooler weather coming, we can figure out how to do more of that! We had a great Museum Day this month. One of Cameron's classes was on "The Food of the Ancient Civilizations" ( the other class was on the eye, complete with dissection). Cameron got to make and taste some of the foods we had read about in our history lessons (he said the cheese was gross
). Then our IMAX (in 3D this time) was Ancient Egyptian Mummies. Again, tying in with our history class very nicely! (I like it when that happens...)We had a small field trip to the zoo to observe bears. They mostly slept. Grizzly bears have very long claws! Isaac especially enjoyed the "spectacled bears". He love saying "spectacled bears"!
This past weekend we went on something called the Texas Outdoor Family Event. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department puts on these events at various State Parks. It is basically "camping 101" for either beginners, people like us who haven't camped in a long time, or just as a refresher course. Since each State Park is unique, each event is unique. We camped at Inks Lake State Park in Burnet, Texas. Since it had been about 7 or 8 years since we had been camping, which meant Cameron was too young to remember it, and Isaac had never been, we felt this was an excellent way to introduce the boys to outdoor adventures. The boys really enjoyed the weekend! Cameron learned how to set up camp, cook, kayak, fish and geocache. They also learned about night time sounds they might hear when the went to sleep. They got to see the Milky Way for the first time (we live in Houston....not a lot of stars can get through the "light noise" of the big city). The night sky looked like someone had thrown sparkles all over!
Isaac got very nervous around dark...asking every 5 minutes when we were going to go "home". He spent the night clutching my hand, but he did eventually fall asleep.
This week, Xavier is off in florida till Saturday evening. Next week, we'll go as a family to the Texas Rennaissance Festival "school days". This has become a favorite event for us. We meet my parents and my sister and her family there and spend the day in medieval times!
