We took a very short trip to Dallas last weekend. It's been hard to take weekend trips for the past year since Nicholas started working at our church. He works on Sundays; I work on Fridays. That leaves us with Saturdays, and traffic on Friday afternoons is always awful. Despite our best efforts to leave earlier in the day, we ended up leaving Friday afternoon at 3:45. It took us 6 hours to get to Dallas, with a stop in Waco for dinner and to feed Lil' Bro. Saturday morning we went to breakfast with my brother, Logan and niece A. Then we proceeded to wrangle everyone to do something together. We settled on visiting The Children's Garden at the Dallas Arboretum. It was the last weekend of August Dollar Days where general admission was $1 and the Children's Garden was $1. We wrangled 3 of my 4 younger siblings and all the nieces for our adventure. It took several hours for everyone to gather together, though. Once they did, we stopped for lunch at Torchy's Tacos. 7 adults and 7 kids!
After lunch we headed to the Children's Garden. I did the calculations, for 7 adults, 7 kids and parking 3 cars, it would have cost $212. Instead, we paid $27 thanks to dollar days, discount parking, and our reciprocal membership benefits from our Wildflower Center membership.
The kids had a great time, and Aunt Kendall got a new picture with all her nieces and nephews.
Lots of cousin fun!
We didn't make it to the Children's Garden until 2:45, so we stayed until closing at 5. It was hot. I wish someone had taken a picture of the sunscreen application on the kids and adults!
Before ending our short short trip, we grabbed dinner on the way out of town where Jeffery and Jackie met us. It was Jeffery's first time to meet Lil' Bro.
Then we drove back to Austin 18 hours after we arrived. It was a lovely trip, but a little rough on our little travelers. Nicholas had to work Sunday morning, and I had a meeting at 9:30, so we had to get up and out Sunday morning after getting home around 11:30pm Saturday night. Big Bro was a little cranky on Sunday.
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