Fort Davis!

Sunday morning was our only chance to sleep in that week. Thankfully the kids slept great and got a little caught up although we were all still pretty tired when we woke up at our 6AM, Texas 8AM.

 

  

 

We met the family and headed out for a little side trip to Fort Davis. We were trying to get a picture of the kids but the sun was too bright. Haha.

 

  

 

 The whole week almost everywhere we went Peaches and Lou were holding hands with little J.

 

 

They have a lot of really neat displays at this fort. This was the old stables.

 

 

 

And the barracks. We noticed the beds were pretty short and learned that the Calvary men couldn't be more than 5 foot 8 because they thought it was too hard on the horses to carry bigger men out on patrol for miles and miles every day.

 

 

 

We also learned this fort was never actually attacked, but it was raided several times for its horses and supplies.

 

 

 Noni said she has a picture of me standing right here at about Lou's age so we got this one. :)

 

 

 

We walked the grounds and checked out all the old buildings.

 

 

 

 They built the fort twice because the original one was made of wood and all burned down at one point so they had to rebuild out of bricks.

 

 

 

 

Thankfully it wasn't too hot this year...mid 80's which was super nice for Texas in July!!

 

 

 

Sweet cousins!

 

 

 

I got this picture because I have one in the same place of Aunt Karen with the girls and M when we visited there years ago. 

 

 

J was pretty tired by the time we were ready to go and caught rides wherever he could. :)

 

 

 He loved the dress up station in the museum.

 

 

Peaches is wearing the same dress here that Boo wore the first time we went! Lou didn't want to dress up, but she was holding a gun at one point and little S walked by and said, "A girl with a gun?! That's disrespectful!" Haha.

 

Practicing Morse code.

 

 

Camping

 

 

We finished up at the Fort and then stopped for lunch at a grocery store/sandwich shop.

 

 

I found this gem and several others like it on my phone later. :P

 

 

 

Then it was back to camp for games...but not before we got Sonic! Lou is so funny...after she finishes her drink she goes around to other people's and begs a sip off them. She was going around to all the empty cups and testing each one to see if they had anything left.

 

 It had warmed up that afternoon so we pulled down the old kiddie pool and let the little ones splash around while we played a card game.

 

 

 

 It was a wonderful relaxing afternoon!

 

 

Next up the first official day of camp!