Summer Adventures in Fair Park

This is another MUST DO!!  Today we headed to Summer Adventures in Fair Park.  The best way to describe it is the State Fair in the Summer with no lines!!

There were so many attractions and rides and we got to do all of them as many times as we wanted!  I cannot put into words just how fantastic today was.  This was the Bubble House, which is a fun house full of bubbles.

Stetson and Cassidy on the motorcycles...

Uh oh!  Cassidy found swings!  How many times do you think she rode this?  MANY!

She even got to go on her very first roller coaster.  We all went with her!

To take a break from the heat, we headed inside to build sandcastles.  They also got to search for buried treasure (coins) in the sand.

More rides!  Even I have a smile on my face.

We all rode the huge Ferris Wheel too!  Remember the world record book Stetson got?  This Ferris Wheel is in it and he was SO excited to go on it.

I had to conquer my fear of heights on this.  Just don't look down!

Time for a lunch break!  Fair food is so bad for you but so yummy!

Stetson also loves BMX bikes and riders.  Lucky for him, there was a BMX show!

They even gave him a poster and signed it for him.

He is SUPER proud of this!  These guys made his day!

It was time to cool off!  There were little areas to get wet all over the park and we took advantage.

Another way to get wet is to hop on the log ride!  This was another one we did multiple times.

Our admission also included admission to the aquarium and museums at Fair Park.  We got to feel the stingrays at the aquarium!

As well as discover all kinds of underwater creatures.

That's one big turtle!

Paddle boats!  Hard work and hot, but fun at the same time.

I had a pretty cute co-captain!

We enjoyed the butterfly house too.  There are so many beautiful butterflies!  I tried to get some pictures but they wouldn't stay still long enough to get any good ones.

Next stop...a puppet show!  The kids really enjoyed this.

To rest our legs, we took a ten minute gondola ride over Fair Park.

As soon as we were back on the ground, we headed for more rides!

Look what we found again!  Remember the mall?

Stetson and Cassidy were the best of buds all day riding all the rides together.

Until this one.  The boys went on this roller coaster.

While the girls headed to the boat rides.

Then we hit up the midway!  Both kiddos won little bears, which they immediately named Mini Papa Bear (Stetson's) and Mini Mama Bear (Cassidy's).

I think this was Stetson's favorite ride!  This is the first car of any sort that he got to drive by himself!  In fact, he got to drive his sister around.  Bumper cars are awesome!  I lost count on how many times we did this.

Another fear of heights conquered!  Look at the view, though!  This was a rotating tower that went HIGH into the air so you could get a panoramic view of the city.

We also got in a little putting practice.

And some chill time!  This was the kids' first time in a hammock.  

More water!

And our last ride was spinning hot air balloons.  The kids loved it but J and I felt sick just watching them.

We literally shut the place down!  This was, by far, our favorite day!!