Brenham

Mitchel randomly asked me when we were going to go to that ice cream place.  And by "that ice cream place" he meant the Blue Bell Ice Cream Creamery.  I'm pretty sure he did not want to go on the tour but while we were out there might as well.  Anyway, being the excellent mother that I am want to be I planned our trip.  I also recruited Gramps and Bahbah to join us.  The big kids and I did the tour and I think they even found it a little interesting.  Although they kept saying "I just want some ice cream" and that does not come until the end of the tour.  I was a little surprised when they both only finished half of their scoops of ice cream.  That is not normal for my kids.  It could have been the package of mamba candy they devoured on the 1 hour drive out.

Mitchel and Dustin semi-enjoying their ice cream.

Bryce just enjoyed the hats.

 

After ice cream we went to lunch (our timing didn't quite work out well).  We went to the Brenham Municipal Airport where they have a diner that is pretty good.  On the way in we saw some "army guys" inside eating and I pointed out their helicopter to the boys.  Mitchel is into everything army.  He got camo shorts, pants, back pack, and tshirt for school this year.  We borrowed 2 seasons of GI Joe from the library and he watches it every second I will let him.  We sat down and I saw the "army guys" get up and leave and Mitchel and Dustin are lucky to have the best Gramps ever.  Gramps jumped up and chased said "army guys" down to see if the boys could check out the helicopter.  They said yes and Gramps took them out to see it but sadly my boys are too shy and nervous around strangers that they would not get in it or even stand on the skids.  They probably would've done better had I been there instead of Gramps but I was busy mopping up one of Bryce's messes which is a whole other story.  I think they still enjoyed it.  We then watched the helicopter take off along with another 15 people that had gathered.  I thought it was pretty darn cool but my kids still said the ice cream was their favorite part of the day.

 

 



We waited and waited for that helicopter to take off.

 

 And finally it did.