Spring Break in Flower Mound

Here are some pictures from Andy, Caleb and Annika's visit to Texas during their spring break from my phone. There are a few problems. First, no one was very conscientious documenting the visit with pictures and so they are more random than planned. Second, they were taken with with my old HTC windows phone and its camera isn't among its best features, and third Caleb had firmly announced a no pictures rule

Annika having finally settled on her outfit and ready to go

On Monday Evie and I took Caleb and Annika to the Dallas Zoo. It was a great day. Not crowded since spring breaks for the local schools were over and a beautiful spring day, but we didn't take any pictures.

Andy, Caleb, Annika and I enjoyed a six hour visit to Legoland at Grapevine (yes, that is not an exaggeration, six straight hours). I did get Caleb to pose for a picture with a Lego ready mix concrete truck.

Caleb and I spent most of Wednesday at the new Perot Museum of Science and Industry near Downtown Dallas, with its "interesting" architecture (the glass rectangle at the angle on the side is an escalator)

Caleb in the weather and climate exhibit doing a TV weather forecast with the "blue screen" (he's a natural)

Caleb racing Jamaal Charles, running back for the Kansas City Chiefs (he's from Port Arthur, Texas),

and a tyrannosaurus rex (lessons learned: to beat Charles will require some practice, but you have a decent chance against the tyrannosaurus rex at least over a short distance. As to racing the cheetah, plan on  death.)

Caleb in the robotics exhibit. The object was to use the robots to clean the space by pushing the red balls out of the area, but Caleb learned how to use his robot to smash into Grandpa Mike's robot and push it up on to the ridge around the exhibit leaving high centered and stuck.

This the new Warren Park in downtown Dallas. The Perot Museum is up and to the left. The park is actually built over a freeway. It's hard to see, but on the upper left you can see cars on a freeway that goes underneath the park. Caleb and I walked over to it to get something to eat after the museum.

Pictures from Dave and Ale's house in the Woodlands just north of Houston (Annika, Diego and Caleb)

The Woodlands is a planned development (residential, shopping malls, and office buildings) north of Houston that is really quite nice (although sometimes with a too neat to be real Disneyland feel). Walking paths wind through the area along with some canals. This is from a boat in one of the canals.

This is Caleb walking along one of the trails along the canal with Grandma Evie and Annika further ahead. It was a very beautiful and pleasant walk, but as may be evident from the picture at this time everyone was pretty much tired of pleasantness and beauty.

One final picture of spring time in our Flower Mound neighborhood (actually the Pace's land on the south side of our subdivision)