Dallas Arboretum - Part Two

This is a continuation of last week's post about our trip to the Dallas Arboretum. Here's the first post in case you missed it.



Here's Rominal and me, and this was his first choice of poses.



I made him turn around though.



Here's some more pictures from our trip.





This time of year all of the walkways were lined with pumpkins.

 Everyone loved this.





This was one of the knockers on a door on the property.











I handed over my camera to another visitor and she got this picture. Very nice!



We saw this little critter on the walkway. We waited and made sure he got into the safety of the flower beds before we left him.

Dallas Arboretum

This weekend we went to the Dallas Arboretum. I've been wanting to go since Spring because they have a Chihuly exhibit that Mom and I wanted to see. However, the thing with living in Texas is that you have to wait until it not so hot outside. We tend to do a lot of indoor things during the summer.

This weekend was hot still, but not flaming hot.

We got there right when the gates opened and had a lovely walk. I've got tons of pictures and here's the first half.



I love how you can see the fuzz on this flower.





Here's some of Chihuly's work, surrounded by the flowers.



My mom was with us, and she took this picture of the three of us.





It's hard to see how tall this really is, but it was huge.









This little cutie was getting her picture taken in the gardens. Lots of people go there to do that, we even saw a wedding! I couldn't help but sneak a picture too.



And the last one for today - my Mom and me.



We had such a great time.  I'll post more pictures next week. 

Girl Scouts and the State Fair of Texas

2012 is the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts.  This remarkable accomplishment is being celebrated at the State Fair of Texas this year and my troop got to participate.

Each night at the fair there is a parade that goes all around the fair grounds.  The Girl Scouts have a float in this year's parade and my girls got to be on the float the other night.  It was a ton of fun!

I have so many pictures to share, so, sit back and enjoy.

Here's Elizabeth and Bailey in front of the building where the Girl Scout exhibit is being held.



Here's Tiffany, Bailey and Elizabeth.





This is how they planned to waive from the float. I didn't actually walk around the route with them, so not sure if they did this the whole time or not.









This is another float. I just liked the colors in it.



Unfortunately, we didn't have time to wait for the wheel to go around so that "Texas Star" was right-side up.



Some fair eats - that we didn't have time to stop at. Maybe next time.



So, after the parade took off, we took a short cut through the fair and met back up with the parade as it was nearing the end.

Here comes our girls!


The girls had a great time.


Too bad you can't tell.


Updated - we went back another night and we found a picture of Bailey from about five years ago in the display for the 100 year celebration of Girl Scouts. How cool is that?



And we almost didn't recognize her picture, because the picture was taken when she was at camp. She's the one in the yellow life vest on the right.