Thanksgiving 2022

 Happy Belated Thanksgiving!  We took our crew to Houston, TX for a week to visit with my parents.  They are on a mission for our church right now preserving family history records by scanning them and making them searchable by computer.  They literally spend all day scanning page after page of books.  It's boring work, but if you can find your ancestors through these books, it's worth it.

Anyway, I will just tell about each picture as it popped up since I have no desire to try and organize our week.  


On the train at the Houston Zoo. That was Wednesday,  November 23rd. 

Houston's Wall of Water.  Basically a very tall manmade waterfall.  That was Thanksgiving Day.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston Zoo. Wednesday.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Sunday, November 20th.  Jaydon came out super angry that he couldn't get his buttons done up.  We couldn't convince him that it was because his shirt was inside out.  

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston Space Center, Monday, November 21st.

Houston Zoo.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Isaac really likes monkeys.  Houston Zoo, Wednesday.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Tuesday, before the museum.  This is the little "closet" that my parents scan books in.  That is the very expensive scanner behind them.  They let the kids help scan a book to show them what they are doing for their mission.

Esther and the T-rex, Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Esther in the capsule at the Space Center on Monday.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd. That is a Megalodon jaw--the largest shark that ever lived.  

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd. Those are wax statues of Native American Code talkers from WWI.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Houston's Museum of Natural History. Tuesday, November 22nd.

Esther, Jaydon, and Soft Bear with a statue of Buckee, from the famous roadside stop in Texas.  

Our Thanksgiving meal was small and I took no pictures of it.  It was good, though.  And Esther's birthday was the Friday after Thanksgiving, and we went to the children's museum that day for her birthday.  

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