WERE HOME!!

ok we actually got back VERY late Suday night (around 2am) it was a VERY LONG travel day but we got home with out having to spend the night somewhere along the way.. here are the pictures of our trip to Arkansas..

These are pic's of the kids swimming with Grandpa Jack at the pool at Grandma Merry's condo in Hot Springs.. KayLea's big news was that she finally trusts the arm floaties and she's a little fish she spent most of the 2nd time we swam in the deep end and she even got a little too confident and jumped in (luckely in the shallow end) when she didn't have the floaties on.. i was afraid she would be scard to get back in after kind of almost drownding but she wasn't fazed a bit and went right back in.. GO KAYLEA!

Ok the next big thing we did was the Little Rock Zoo, now i have to say the Zoo in Little Rock is tiny and it has had some very rough press (not at all un-deserved) they have tried to do allot to pull the zoo up out of the mess they made so hopefully in a few years it will all be "done" but we were very dissopointed with the Zoo, it only took about an hour to go through everything and we went early to try to beat the heat so pretty much none of the special displays (the petting zoo, the bird sanctuary where you can walk in and have the birds land on your finger etc.) were all closed.. but the kids still loved seeing the animals and we had a good time!

KayLea's favorite were the Elephants, she also liked getting a face to face moment with the Lion, the boys loved the Gorilla and the Monkey's..

Our final fun outing was the Museum of Discovery also in Little Rock, we did this the same day we did the Zoo (also showing how little time the Zoo took!) this was a total Hit!!! we'll skip the zoo next time and just do this one.. they had a ton of exhibits and hands on stuff for the kids to do including "the big electricity show" where Brad got to be the main helper.. it was very fun!!!

First picture, is of Brad during the "big electric show" presentation.. you can't see it but there was a very bright lightening bolt going from the florescent bulb he's holding, he didn't feel a shock or anything it just freaked him out a bit, the 2nd one of Hunter is also during the same show, i can't remember the name of the thing he was touching but it makes your hair stand up due to static electricity, poor Hunter has such short hair he didn't get nearly the reaction some did (KayLea wouldn't get at all close to the thing).. the rest are of the kids in various displays..

we had a good time.. it will probably be Christmas before we get down to AR again so we had to pack as much fun as possiable.. and i think we succeeded!

ta ta for now!