So with the kids back in town, Holly’s brother and his son, Noah, came down from Kansas City on Wednesday night. (Madysen left for SC on Wednesday morning; we received reports of her and her friends playing beach soccer–must be rough).
On Thursday, everyone (though not me) and Holly’s sister and her daughter Carli took a trip to Fossil Rim Wildlife Center and Dinosaur Valley State Park, both of which are a couple hours south of Dallas. Fossil Rim is a drive through wildlife preserve. Emma, who got a camera for her birthday, actually took some decent photos.
Dinosaur Valley “contains some of the best preserved dinosaur tracks in the world.” But due to all the recent rain we’ve received, the kids didn’t get to see too many tracks.
On Friday–again without me–Holly, the kids, Shawn, Noah, and cousins Brendon and Ashton went go-kart racing and played putt-putt. Speed claims to have beaten up the putt-putt course with a number of holes in one. I do believe that he beat up the go-kart track. The little ones started out on the kiddie track. Emma complained about how slow Carli drove.
Cousin Carli
Cousin Noah
Emma
The big kids (with Layla in a sidecar) took to the big track.
Cousin Brendon, Cousin Logan and Layla, and Speed
Cousin Logan and Layla with Shawn behind
Cousin Ashton
Logan blocking Speed
That evening, Layla, Speed, Shawn, Noah, Brendon, Ashton, and I went to the Rangers games against the Cleveland Indians. Speed wore his Indians t-shirt even though he couldn’t name a player on the roster and only really follows the Yankees. We sat in section 44, directly in the right field corner. Unless you can get in the first couple of rows, I would suggest a different section.
McCarthy pitched pretty well for the Rangers, holding the Indians to just a couple of hits over the first five innings (and scoreless). In the top of the 6th, he finally gave up a run, which was promptly followed by a Travis Hafner two-run homer hit just a few rows over and a few rows in front of us. While only giving up 3 runs, the Rangers managed nothing except hitting into a number of double plays. In the 9th, they finally showed some life. In the top of the inning, they got the final out on a great catch by Brad Wilkerson. In the bottom half, the Rangers mounted a rally with a couple hits and a couple of helpful errors by the Indians. With two out, the bases loaded, and down 3-2, Wilkerson struck out swinging. Rangers lost.
