End of Summer Fun

Summer is coming to an end (though you wouldn't think that with this heat!) as there's only one weekend left before school starts.  I've already blogged about the first half of our summer adventures, so the pictures below consist of the recent fun activities we've done before the new school year starts.  Now it's time to prepare for football and tailgating!
1st half of the summer: Austin Steam Train, Deutschen Pfest festival, Express Baseball Game, South Padre Island (see past posts).
2nd half of the summer:  Quarry Splash Pad, RABB park, Rock'N River Family Aquatic Center, jumpstreet, Lake Austin boating time and of course random construction vehicles (Mighty Machines!)!

Lake Austin 6/29/2013

Lake Austin 6/29/2013

Quarry Splash Pad 7/7/2013

sand pit at Quarry Splash Pad

Play for All Ability Park 7/20/2013

dig dig dig

swinging with sissy

Rock'N River Water Park 8/1/2013

Ry is quite the water baby

Ry loves mighty machines!  8/4/2013

Adult time on Lake Austin! 8/10/2013

8/10/2013 - Party Cove

jumpstreet fun 8/18/2013

boing, boing

foam pit with sissy

Run Ry Run!

inflatable obstacle course

When you play hard, you crash hard.  :) 8/18/2013

Austin Steam Train

This past weekend the Austin Spartans rented the entire Santa Fe car on the Austin Steam Train for a discounted price!  We couldn't pass that up, plus we've never ridden the train.  It was a quaint train ride from Cedar Park to Burnet, they even provided snacks!  Once in Burnet we ate at the Highlander restaurant and wandered around the town.  Emma and I volunteered to star in the Wild West Shoot out as town folk, we even had speaking roles!  Everyone had a great time and Ry was in a great mood despite only taking a 15 min cat nap in the car ride back home at the end of the day.

Come join the Austin Spartans for a historic train ride into the Texas Hill Country. We have booked the Santa Fe 1343 car aboard the Hill Country Flyer for a great trip on Saturday, April 27th, 2013. This popular train ride departs Cedar Park at 10:00am (arrive by 9:30) for a two hour journey through the Texas Hill Country to Burnet. Passengers can enjoy lunch and shopping at their own leisure during stopover. The Burnet Gunfighters present their wild west gunfight, weather permitting, at the train station in Burnet before the trains leaves at approximately 2:15 pm to return to Cedar Park.

At the train station 4/27/2013

all aboard!

Ready for our journey to begin

We're moving!

Mommy and Ry

Waiting for the show at the Wild West Shootout town

We're proper town folk

Having a spat with a saloon girl

Relaxing before the shootout

Picture with the sheriff

Ry on the engine

Touch A Truck

This weekend at Old Settlers Park was the Touch A Truck event sponsored by the Round Rock Parks and Rec Department.  This made for a perfect outing as Ry's all about trucks right now.  He loves watching the CAT and other construction vehicles in our neighborhood and will yell at us if we move him before he's had his fill.  The Touch A Truck event allows children the opportunity to explore vehicles of all types - public service, emergency, utility, construction, transportation, etc.  We arrived around 11am and worked our way to most of the vehicles.  Ry's favorite thing was to play with the giant wheels and lug-nuts and watch the excavator in action.  Those big trucks really wore the little guy out, he crashed once we got in the car.

Driving the big wheels 11/3/2012

RR incident management vehicle

  

mini excavator 

Army Humvee

Military transport vehicle

roaming the moving truck

I'm not ready to leave yet!

Firetruck!

Everyone's DL picture looks horrible 11/3/2012

  

tuckered out