State Science Fair Trip

Parker and his buddy, Tyler, placed well in the Fort Worth Regional Science Fair, so they qualified to compete at the State Science Fair in San Antonio. We made a weekend of it and had a great time with Tyler and his mom and the boys' teacher, Mr. Fuchs. A big group of other students and parents from our school were there, too, as our school had a pretty good contingency there between middle and upper school students.

The whole crew at dinner. These Mariachi guys were so incredible!

The boys with their project, Quantum Clouds. They had to stand here and be judged for a few hours. Meanwhile, the rest of us wandered around the Riverwalk.

Always have to see The Alamo!

We had perfect weather. San Antonio is so lovely!

The boys were totally done when it was time to be done. We checked out of our hotel, ditched the awards ceremony and headed north to Austin to blow off some steam on the river. 

 

The boys' boat.

Girls' boat!

Fun trip!

Baseball is back.

Miles and Matthew M., looking like little twins. Neal is the coach! :)

Bahamas Trip: At the resort

Our townhouse at the Grand Isle was super posh and way nicer than we expected it to be. Somehow, we totally lucked out and got a pretty good deal on this place. This was the upstairs living area.

The views were pretty great! Would have been even better if we were golfers.

We had lots of fun at the pool and ate a lot of yummy things at the restaurant. There weren't a whole lot of dining options, but we didn't complain. The food was great!

The walk down to the beach.

Playing games on the patio.

And games by the pool.

Cozy quarters for the kids.

Daytime shadey time.

Our condo was on the right. Deluxe!

Miles really liked how Bear looked with the mini jams.

We had a longish layover in Nassau, so we went to the Straw Market and saw some historical sites. We were dressed for Texas, so we were kind of hot.

One of four flights home. Phew!

Residual freckles.

Bahamas Spring Break 2015

We had so much fun in the Bahamas! It was far, far away and it took a long time to get there because of multiple flights, airports and airlines, but we made it to the Grand Isle Resort on Great Exuma and had a lovely time. Oh that we could be back there in a snap.

We took a boat tour one day and visited a bunch of little islands, including the one that is inhabited solely by iguanas. They were super friendly (and loved the bread we brought them).

This island was super cool; waves were coming in on both sides.

Before the tour.

A cool blowhole would shoot out water every few seconds when the waves came in.

We tried swimming in this Blue Hole during our boat trip, but the water was super choppy and kept going down the snorkels, so we didn't last long.

The best part of this post is the vlog series the kids made every night. See below.

Bahamas Trip Vlogs March 2015 from lesliehorn on Vimeo.

I forgot one. Here it is:

I guess I had forgotten two. Here is the last one!