The Big D - Day 2

Gotta roll with the punches! Got up this morning and it was raining. While eating breakfast at the hotel, we saw that there was severe weather in the forecast for today, along with tornado warnings. Didn't think those were ideal conditions under which to go to Six Flags. Plus, Hubby's neck has a huge kink in it, and Jack's eyes were bad this morning. Luckily, we hadn't yet bought tickets to go to Six Flags. We decided, instead, to go to the Dallas World Aquarium.

What a great place! We had a good time and saw lots of neat fish and birds... and a jaguar. Yeah, not quite sure how he fit in, but he was beautiful! We finished up there early afternoon and grabbed lunch at a local BBQ place in the West End Historic district. Keeper boy branched out and ordered fried okra as a side. We all tried it and decided it was pretty good (except J-Mav... he thought it was pretty gross). Then we decided to go ahead and walk over to Dealy Plaza and do the JFK stuff.

We went to the museum first because we knew it closed at 6, and we figured we could walk around outside after that if we needed to. The museum was really excellent. Everyone got an audio tour device and the self-paced tour was full of information. We all liked it, I think.

We paid an extra $2.50 for the cell phone walking tour of points outside, which was also cool. The boys stood in the middle of the road by the X that marks where JFK's car was when he was assassinated, and Hubby took their picture. Then told them to get out of the road because cars were coming. ;) We saw the memorial. We saw the jail where Oswald was killed. A somber day of history.

Then we walked over to Patriot Plaza to show the boys the sculpture of the cattle drive that we remembered from our visit here 17 years ago. We walked through it and took pictures. It was larger than we had remembered. But it's possible that we didn't walk all the way through it when we were hear before because I was very pregnant with Keeper Boy...

Quick pit stop at McDonald's so J-Mav could go to the bathroom, and we walked back to the car and headed back to the hotel. It was after 7 when we got back, so we just drove down the street to Chili's for dinner.

J-Mav's eyes looked awful today. He's got red, irritated patches under both of them, but particularly under the right one. Hopefully it'll be better tomorrow.

Since we were planning to do the downtown stuff tomorrow, and we've already done it, we are going to go to Fort Worth Stockyards tomorrow (instead of Wednesday). It's supposed to be very cool for here (not even 60 degrees), so I'm glad we all brought a pair of pants. At least I assume we did. I have no idea what Keeper Boy packed...