Our Trip to Brenham and Back

This last Wednesday through Monday trip was to Brenham and back, as you've already surmised from the post title.

We stopped first at Waco and went to a Heritage museum and got to see a real-working water wheel, blacksmith shop, and woodworking station! We also went to a natural history museum and their "Emergence of Man" Exhibit just had tools and dates! No missing link fossils or anything! Wow! Really good proof of evolution don't you think?

Me at the Natural History Museum wearing my shirt I got at Mardel

We went to a Dr. Pepper museum and a Texas Ranger Museum after that. It was cool to see all those different glasses that they used before soda cans!

Before we left Waco, we made one last stop. Mardel. It was SOOO cool! Alyssa almost got a new CD, but it would have used all her money. She even got to listen to some Andrew Peterson CDs! I got an awesome shirt (Not that almost ALL their shirts aren't awesome!) that says "American by birth, Christian by choice." It was true. I have the right to choose, and NO ONE can take that away from me, my family, or any one else in this country. 

Then we went to Brenham, and they had one of the COOLEST Wal-marts on the planet. They had a Beyblade named Ray Gil, one of the few I don't have, and they had Team Packs. Right now, Beyblade Metal Masters has each of the best Beybladers from around the world compete to be the world's best Blader, and they had Team USA's beyblades all in one package! We got those and they rule! But enough about that.

We also got to see the Lorax in a theater (before Mustang! Whoooo!) and it's a pretty good, (and funny) movie.

On Sunday, we went to the Renaissance festival which, almost surprisingly, was pretty decent. It was more Family oriented and most of them had decent costumes. There was even a really cool faun (Think Narnia) costume!  I even got a lucky Dragon Scale necklace and an archer-type hat! 

Me at a knife-throwing game at the Renaissance Festival. I didn't hit the target, but I stuck a knife in a wooden wall behind the target! 

This vacation was well needed, but by the end of the LOOOOOOOOOOOONG drive home I was ready to crash. And that's what I did.

I hope any of you reading this have great vacations, whether you're on them now or planning them. Have a great week!