After a long night of Riley tossing and turning, we were up bright and early and ready to go. Around 7:30am, we left our hotel room and went down to eat at the hotel for breakfast. We were given free breakfast vouchers since our room wasn't ready when promised on Saturday. Nice perk because breakfast was awesome! We had to return to the room to change Riley's outfit because she was already a mess after just one meal, and then we were off for the day.
{I love these pictures....look at her hair!!}
First stop, The Stockyards. This was a really neat little area to walk around. We were there too early (since it was a Sunday) for everything to be open, but we still enjoyed it. Despite the petting zoo not being open yet, we were able to see some of the horses, ponies, and cattle, and even saw a camel walking down the street!
We realized Riley has a huge love of birds on this trip. While walking around The Stockyards, she wanted to just chase birds around and kept waving to them, saying 'Hi Birdie!'
We took a carriage ride around the area courtesy of Blondie the horse, and Gavin loved it!
Spent a lot of time just walking around the streets...
Stopped for impromptu photos, most of which didn't turn out!
And loved looking at the Longhorns!
We went into some of the cute shops, including a candy store and a boot shop.
And then we watched the cattle drive. It was so funny because everyone told us about this and there were a lot of people lining up to watch, and it was literally over in like 30 seconds... But, you'll never see this anywhere else, right???
Want to see what it was like? Check out this video...Sorry it's not the greatest quality. I was recording on my phone with my left hand and taking photos with my camera using my right.
We headed back to the car, stopped for a quick burger for lunch (kinda fitting, right??? Come from the cattle drive, eat a burger!) then went to the Museum of Science and History to hit up the children's area. Super cute area...I miss having a museum to visit with the kids. The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester spoiled me!
We took care of babies there...
Did some grocery shopping...
And dug for dinosaur bones!
We played with some manipulatives in the science area, too. The life-size Lite Brite was so cool! Makes me want to get the kids one to play with.
Whew! Our Day 2 was quite busy....I'm not even finished yet! I'm going to head to bed, and I'll try to finish it up tomorrow. :)
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