Bringing the Outdoors IN!

Mike was off work yesterday, so we took a mini vacation to Grapevine.  We found places to experience things you usually see outside (like sea life, camping, hunting, etc) in the great indoors!  Temperatures have still been in the 100's, so it's not very pleasant to do outdoor activities!

The first stop was Sea Life at the Grapevine Mills Mall.  It was fun looking at all the very unique fish/creatures that God made! 

(Disclaimer:  All pictures in this post were taken with my iPhone.)

 

These were some of the most intriguing ones I saw....

 

We walked through one room where you could see shark swimming in a huge tank below you.  There were big sections of the floor that were clear.  Barrett didn't trust the clear floor.  He did NOT want to fall through into the tank with the shark, so he scooted across the floor on his bottom!!

 

After we walked through Sea Life, we took the boys to lunch at Rain Forest Cafe (another place full of things you usually see outside....but can see inside with air conditioning and food! lol)  Then it was off to Bass Pro where the boys tested out all the tents...

 

tried on clothes for hunting season (you have to admit Barrett slightly resembles Elmer Fudd here! lol)...

 

and tried to escape being eaten by a shark....

We got home just in time to change clothes and make it to our Snap Fitness softball game.  After the game we went to On the Border with some of the other families and didn't get home until 11:30 pm!  Thankfully our boys are old enough to sleep in and we were able to sleep until 9:00 this morning!  I don't remember the last time I slept that late!  I think the only reason Mike was able to sleep that late is because his body is still on Alaska time.  Us going to bed at 1 am and getting up at 9 am is like him going to bed at 10 pm and getting up at 6 am in Alaska...Monday morning is gonna be hard for him!!