Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Gaylord Texan

The weekend after Christmas Ryan's sister, Jamie and her husband, Bruce came down. They were able to make it to Cole's bday party (which I'll do a post about as soon as I get the pictures on my computer) and then we headed down to Dallas to stay at the Gaylord Texan.  It. Was. Awesome.  We definitely need to go back with kiddos. The Christmas decorations were amazing!  We did quite a bit of walking around and eating and perusing the shops.  (sorry for the blurry pics)
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, January 20, 2014

Lubbock Science Spectrum

The weekend before Christmas we headed for Lubbock for a family reunion. While in town we took Cole to the Science Spectrum. We spent many hours exploring there as kids so it was fun to bring Cole. It was just as awesome as I had remembered it being! Cole loved it! Ryan loved it too!

Snow Day

A couple weeks before Christmas we got several inches of snow and basically the entire city shut down so we got to enjoy a couple extra days at home with Cole.  He enjoyed the snow and insisted on wearing Ryan's snowboarding goggles!
 
 
Things were great for about five minutes and then some snow got down his shirt and he was ready to go inside.

Salisbury

Part Three of our trip we headed to Salisbury for a day to check out Stonehenge!  The area surrounding Stonehenge was gorgeous and it is neat to be able to say we've been there! Here are a couple pics:
 
 
 
After Stonehenge we stopped by the Salisbury Cathedral. It was gorgeous! We also got to see an original of the Magna Carta (no pictures allowed) and read up a bit on the history of democracy.
We returned to London and tried to do some more sightseeing, tried being a key word. There were people everywhere and it was impossible to effectively sight see. We tried to hop on a bus but it was so stuffed with people they would only let one stroller on.  Ryan and I decided to wait for the next bus which never showed up,  so then we just started walking.  Traffic was so backed up we're petty sure we caught up to the original bus. We decided to hop on the tube just to get away from all the commotion. We actually ended up finding an over ground line that stopped about a block from our apartment. (That could've really come in handy had we realized its location earlier in the trip, oh well.)
 
 
 
Overall it was a great trip and I am so glad we went. I am so glad we brought Cole and that he got to experience this, however, the time change was VERY difficult to deal with for such a short time and Cole was unimpressed with such long flights and I would not call London a stroller friendly locale.