411 The Walters Bunch

My beautiful family sans our eldest son and myself As normal, when the temp starts topping 100 almost daily, we start back to school. I figure if the kids are stuck inside every afternoon (which is really anytime after 10:30am) then they might as well be learning something and not just be comatose in front of the TV. We have been doing school for the past two weeks and so far it has been fairly painless to get back in the routine of things, though we are taking off this week to get ready for their birthday parties next weekend. We finally had our unusual cool front come through. It was too late for us to go to Six Flags so we headed to the Dallas Arboretum for the day. The high was only 73 and it felt so great....almost cold in the water. This was our first time to visit the children's gardens. It was really neat. We spent pretty much the whole day in the childrens garden and only did about 2/3 of the activities. My kids are older, but there were a ton of activities f

T build a fire pit on the beach. This is the first time in the past 3 years that we haven't been able to go to Six Flags during an unusual  cold front during the hot Texas summer. I really kept hoping it was coming, but with our tickets expiring and no cold spell in the forecast we had no other option than to brave the heat. Since we go every year we did not need to spend the entire day there so we decided to get there around 2pm and stay until 10pm. As it turns out not very many people wanted to brave the 104 day. The longest ride wait was about 25 minutes and most had almost no wait. Since we came after lunch, we only needed one meal to buy which was nice and Six Flags will give you free ice cold tap water if you ask. We had no idea it was that hot until we saw the news the next day. The park did a great job with fans, misters, and ice cold waters.      This was the first time ALL my kids were finally tall enough AND wanted to ride the big roller coasters. My oldest still