Adventure Review
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Kura Revolving Sushi Retaurant
Recently we discovered a revolving sushi restaurant in Houston, TX and had a really fun time trying it out: You can also see the review on Houston Food Finders: The Cartoon Review: Watch This Family Eat All The Things at Kura Sushi
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South Padre Island- Two days on the best beach in Texas
For our summer getaway this year we decided to spend a couple days on South Padre Island. We found a good deal on a condo that is right on the beach and booked a trip for a Sunday afternoon through Tuesday morning. Having never been to South Padre before, we were really looking…
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Everyday Adventures: Hiking the Big Bend Rim Trail
Our Night on the Rim, aka How My Backpack Almost Killed Me This past year my family decided to celebrate Christmas by spending a week at Big Bend National Park. Our home for the week would be a motel we reserved in the nearby town of Study Butte. However; one night my 11 year old…
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Everyday Adventures: Rosenberg Railroad Museum
This past weekend we paid a visit to the Rosenberg Railroad Museum. Despite it’s small appearance I had a good time and learned quite a lot there. They have a small indoor exhibit and then when you are ready to see the several outdoor exhibits they assign you a tour guide who takes you around and…
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Everyday Adventures: Muddy Waters; A Canoe Story
This past weekend I decided my family should have ourselves a little canoeing adventure. My wife and I woke the kids up and told them about our awesome plans for the day. They were less than thrilled and I won’t bore you with the details but it involved a lot of moaning and groaning and…
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5 simple, cheap and fun things to do with your kids aboard a cruise ship
My family and I just returned from our first Carnival Cruise (The Breeze out of Galveston) and here are a few fun things we did on the cruise that I thought I would share with you: Go swimming This is a given, I’m sure just about any kid will want to go swimming but don’t just…
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Everyday Adventures: Rocky Creek Corn Maze!
This year my son’s first grade field trip was to the Rocky Creek Corn Maze in Moulton, Texas. I went along and took the ice chests carrying the classrooms’ lunches and helped chaperone; but who cares about that: here’s all the fun stuff we did; Warning: lots of pictures of Rylan coming up: First up…
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Everyday Adventures: It’s Carnival Time!
Every year during the local 4-H Fair and Livestock Show the Heart of America Carnival comes to our town. My kids really look forward to riding the rides. For me it’s basically a long night of standing around watching the kids ride those rides. It is still fun watching them though and I always enjoy talking…
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Everyday Adventures: Ariana’s First Dove Hunt
Dove Hunting- or as I like to call it: Cloud Shooting Shooting at clouds and if a dove happens to get in the way then so be it. My Dad invited my brother, myself and my daughter Ariana to a dove hunt hosted South of Alice, Texas. A local group in that area puts on…
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Everyday Adventures: Visiting the Stanzel Model Aircraft Museum
Did you know up until the late 90’s there was a toy factory in Schulenburg, Texas? Yeah, me neither! It may not sound that exciting or novel, but Schulenburg is a sleepy little central Texas town with about 3,000 people. I would never have thought of it as a place that had a toy factory.…
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Everyday Adventures: Summer fun on the Slip ‘n Slide
It’s that time of year again: summer! Camping, swimming, TV, games, watermelon, no bedtimes and sleeping in! My kids take full advantage of all the above but their favorite activity is swimming. They would swim everyday, all day if they could. I’m surprised they haven’t sprouted gills and joined a pod of dolphins out in…
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Everyday Adventures: The Tunnel of Doom
OK, I admit it; I like inspirational quotes, truisms and sayings. I have several cheesy mottos I repeatedly use like; “make every day count” and “why not eat a pound of Kit Kats?” But one of my favorites is “adventure is where you find it” and I try my best to show this to my…
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The Great Camping Trip of 2016: The Extras
In May my family took a camping trip. It was our first camping trip in two years and I was quite stoked. Needless to say the only thing that went according to plan was the camp stove. That baby worked perfectly; everything else…well, you’ll have to read the article. My take on our trip has…
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Everyday Adventures: Hiking Oneonta Gorge, Oregon
Oneonta Gorge is located East of Multnomah Falls, just off the Columbia River Highway; several miles East of Portland, Oregon. The hiking trail is actually the creek and only a short half mile at that but it ends at a beautiful waterfall and the hike there is arguably even more fun and beautiful than the…
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Everyday Adventures: Now for something stupid…but fun
So the other day at work my coworker and I had a fight. Maybe battle is the proper word. Yep, we had a battle; a good old fashioned rubber band battle. It started with an occasional flinging of your standard small size rubber bands and then escalated into mass chaos, run for cover, cry for…