Texas History Museum

With Regan spending the rest of the week at Camp Doublecreek on her own, I decided it was time for some Mother/Son(s) bonding time so we headed to the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum. Yeah, you can imagine how thrilled the boys were! I was in hog heaven though, I just love history, and David thinks it's some plot of mine just to irritate him (he thinks history is totally pointless), but I would love nothing more than to be a history teacher.

Anyway...first stop, Cracker Barrel for breakfast, then off to the museum to brush the kids up on some book learnin' before school starts back. I think they were pretty fascinated, they liked the guns and swords the most, of course, but we did sit and watch a short film about the Alamo and they enjoyed that, and they asked some good questions and seemed genuinely interested in a few things.

Then we went to the Spirit of Texas Theater, it's a short film on the history of Texas, but the best part is the movie is kind of 4 dimensional, when it talks about the hurricane that wiped out Galveston, there is actually mist and wind and lightening in the theater, and the seats vibrate. There was a part in the movie that talked about rattlesnakes, and a part of the seat cushion pops up and hits the back of your thighs, and I swear, Riley and Tristan flew out of their seats, Tristan did a great Homer Simpson, "DOH!" and people were laughing hysterically. Fun times!

Then we went to the IMAX and saw a movie called Extreme, all about Extreme sports (right up their alley, right?) They showed rock climbers, snowboarders, wind surfers, extreme skiers, lots of incredible stunts and scenery. I think they enjoyed it and most of all learned that history doesn't have to be boring (David)!!