Hotel Fun

...and when we weren't out keeping the streets of Dallas hot...we were in our cute little suite (Marriott Towne Home Suites, Plano)...Corey recommended this hotel and we were all so glad she did!  It had 2 rooms and a living room and a kitchen! :)

Playing Cards!

Snuggling with Grandmom!

Texas-shaped waffles in the complimentary breakfast ;)

Gym

Even McKenna got her morning workout! ;)

...and who could resist riding on the luggage cart?

We all had a great time!! YAY for vacations!!!

Dallas World Aquarium

Paige was a little frightened by some of the animals...

Marci patiently waits for the toucan to eat the berry....

...and it came and ate it right out of her hand!

                  LOOK...it's A SLOTH...right out in the middle of the aquarium!

Taste of Dallas

Taste of Dallas was a real neat venue of many local restaurants, offering samples of food for sample prices...like $3 for a sample plate of Indian cuisine...so we could sample several things!  They had areas for the kids to play in...and prize drawings!

Ok...no the water wasn't coming out of the statues groin area...but it sure did look like it when you were at a certain angle! haha

Trace went zip-lining!

and Marci got to get in a bubble and roll around like a hamster inside a ball! 

Ice Skating/Stonebriar Mall

We finished up with the gang at KKITM and headed for the mall!!  We went ice-skating...and shopped a little...and went to Dave and Busters to eat and play! 

i love alli's expression in this picture...she was like "what do i do?"

...we fall down...

...and get back up....

Alli ventured out into the center...

and Jamie now gives Alli the same look that she originally gave... like "how do you do this?"  I don't think Jamie was ever brave enough to venture out in the middle ;)

YES...You're reading correctly...that IS a Nestle Toll House Cookie Company! YUM!

Paige tuckered out!  She has to have her blankie and baby with her...they're her 2 favorite things!
She is saying  just about anything she wants to say these days...but her new word on this trip was:

"ALLI"... 

and she would scream it through stores...and it was hilarious!  Even after hearing it 101 times! hehe

The APPLE store...such an amazing company!



DAVE and BUSTERS
Eat...and Play

Magic Time Machine

The Magic Time Machine restaurant was fun...we were served dinner by a PIRATE! AND Marci got to sing Karaoke!  She and 2 other girls sang "Taylor Swift"...and they did GREAT!!

American Girl Doll Store

This was on the top of Marci's "to-do" list...and it was our first stop on vacation!  It was pure bliss for  her...it was pure overwhelming craziness for me...hahaha!  One large, two-story, store...with tons of doll paraphanalia...it was like a major WOW!  It had a hair salon...and restaurant...and everything imaginable for a doll!  Marci got an American Girl Doll from Pawpaw and Grandmom at Christmas...and she also had some Christmas money, that she used to buy her another doll at this occassion! 

Marci and "Emma Grace"

Look Alli...they even have SPORTS gear!!

Trace was a good sport...hanging out in a doll store was NOT on his agenda! hehe But He helped with Paige!

Paige LOVED the Escalators...and the stairs on this vacation!

Meet the newest member of the family..."McKenna"