We went to the Museum at Texas Tech tonight for a special program for kids, Bedtime at the Museum. It was light outside tough. We even wore our pajama's to the Museum. That was sort of funny.

We really like the museum. Upstairs there were lots of paintings about baseball. My baby brother just kept saying base-ball whenever he would see a ball in the picture. That was funny. My sister told the man at the desk that he sure had "some amazing paintings." He thought that was kind of funny.

They thought it was sort of funny too when we asked them if they played fetch with the big dinosaurs after the museum closed like in Night at the Museum. They said sure, but I don't think that they really do. maybe

We walked around the museum while we waited and looked at all the neat cool stuff. My sister liked the old dresses, but that part wasn't totally open yet.


When it was time we went back to explore-a-tarium and we played with trains and looked at bones and eggs... then it was time to sit and listen to the story. There were a bunch of kids there and we all sat on nap mats to listen to the story. It was a story about baseball (by Alex Rodriguez). A boy practices a lot to be really good at baseball and his team won the championship. It was a good story. 

After that we went into the room and made a pennant with our names on it. We got to decorate them however we wanted. Then we got a stick to put them on so that we could wave them around. My brother waved his too much outside and my dad had to run fast to chase it down before the wind blew it across the street. My brother was screaming, almost crying and my dad took off running... he caught it though.

When we were almost done decorating the pennants, they brought us cookies and juice as a bedtime snack. We ate cookies and hadn't even had supper yet. That was fun.

Waiting for Addison's class to start for our first Summer Activity of the summer, we decided to go over to the new park to check out the new equipment. It was so cool. I really liked that there was a whole area for little kids and a whole area for bigger kids. The new kinds of playgrounds like this are pretty cool with some many different things to do - even drums and chimes over in the little kids area!

I can't wait to go back!

- Preston

More Information
Lubbock Parks and Rec http://parks.ci.lubbock.tx.us/default.aspx
New Playground http://parks.ci.lubbock.tx.us/newsPage.aspx?ID=3243
Summer Activity Guide http://parks.ci.lubbock.tx.us/newsPage.aspx?ID=3234

Plagued by that ago old question, Where to Go Eat after Church?, we landed on Lujans. Located at 101st and Slide Road, Lujan's serves a "Texican" Feast and will soon be open on Mondays too! On Modays they will be serving free margaritas all day long our waiter told us.

Even though they were busy and there were other people waiting, because there are so many of us, we got to go sit at the big round table right when we walked inside.

Atmosphere
It's a fun, friendly place. It looked awesome. I really liked the statues and vases on the divider. The vase looked like a crocodile bit it or something - really cool.
We like the music too. Our baby brother kept dancing to it.

Entertainment
They ran out of colorsheet/kids menus, but they gave us some crayons and white paper so that we could draw our own pictures, but as soon as the chips and salsa arrived, we were sort of done coloring. Then we got some queso too - yummy!
After we ordered our food, it didn't take long at all for our food to come out. There wasn't a lot of time to wait.

Menu
There were so many choices on the kids menu, everything from chicken bits to tamales to choose from. It was great to choose from so many different things. We ordered an enchilada, a tamale, burrito and Addison just had rice and beans because that's her favorite.

Food
The chips were warm and wonderful. We really liked the salsa, but the queso was our definite favorite. We always like the cheese sauce.

Preston loves tamales. "They were so yummy," he said. Our baby brother ate all of his beans and then all of our moms too! He really liked those beans.

The best part about the food was what came last - fried icream with carmel and chocolate. It came with 4 forks and we kept pasing it in a circle until it was all gone. We all said how much we loved tht ice cream. It was a big treat and really exciting to get to have it.

Price
We saw the Kids Eat Free sign on the way in the door and it sort of made our parents want to come back for dinner too.

Prices range from about $3 for kids meals to about $15 for a steak meal.

Service
Lujan's has been in Lubbock for 20 years and our waiter, Noel, has been at Lujans for 14 of those. He knows the menu by heart - that was cool when he told us eveything on the kids menu. He kept moving so fast and helping a lot of other people too. Other people helped us too by bring more chips, extra napkins, and that kind of thing.

Overall
Clayton loved the fried ice cream so much he said, "This place gets an A+ from me for sure! wow" and the other kids agreed too!

- Clayton (8), Preston (6), Addison (5) and Trenton (2)

Today, like we've done before a few times, we loaded up all the bicycles and took them to bridge at 4th and Flint, northeast of the Ranching Heritage Center. Parking in the large lot at the Texas Tech Administrative Support Center, we unloaded the bikes and headed for the entrance to the bridge. There were a few other people walking and riding along, but mostly it was wide open for us to play.

It was so steep to get up, that made it really hard. The turns on the steep part, make it easy for you to fall down. My brother and sister crashed twice today, but so did I last time we rode over the bridge. There are barrels on the bottom of the turns that look like they are made out of concrete. They are pointy on top too, just watch out for them.

Whenever you get to the top, just go straight, but not too fast because the big ramp is coming up on the otherside. Whenever you see a car coming, it's a little wierd - it feels like you might get smashed. It looks like the big trucks touch the bottom of the bridge. You can even feel it on your feet!

Going down it's really easy for you to fall off your bike. Don't pull the breaks too hard or you could go flying like a monkey. If you don't go too fast down, you won't get hurt. Going as fast as you can, but still being safe is the best part. It's super fun!

- by Clayton

For the price, we had a lot of fun. We were on our bikes and we were outside - and going fast! I can't wait until we go again. With the rest of the summer left to play, I bet we'll get to go again soon.

On the lower floor of the church, we listened to stories and we did a craft. Learning about the ocean, how God made it, was really interesting. For the craft we all got to make sand art by filling a bottle shaped like sea animals with colored sand.

After the craft time we all had a snack - fish, but not a real fish. It looked like sushi, a little. It had a green chocolate chip, cream icing and a pretzel - it looked like a fish! I don't know how, but it did.

Preston said, "The best part of Story Hour was the craft because we got to play with all of the glittery sand."

For more information about the next Kidsplace Story Hour go to the News and Events page at TrinityToday.com

- by Addison