OK, I Like My City

I was a pretty cool mom yesterday, I must admit. Even though the employee at Tom Thumb had to tell my boys to "Please stop playing kickball in the store", I wanted to treat them with a surprise trip to the city waterpark. So while they played Lego Batman on Wii for the 37th time this week, I quietly made 4 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and stuffed them into our cooler along with various other snacks. Then, stealthily packed another bag with towels, bathing suits, sunblock, etc. With the swift covert action that only a ninja mom, like myself, can deliver, I got all the goods in the back of the van without the kickballers having a clue. Wuh huh huh!!

When we pulled into the parking lot and they realized where we were, Ethan asks "Why did we go here?" I explained to them that everything we needed was behind their seats. They were stunned into silence for a whole 4 seconds! Then Dominic kept repeating "Well this is surprising!" "This is really surprising!" "Mom, your surprising us!". They immediately became gentlemen. Dominic even offered to carry a bag! Dominic!!

Besides the fact that my kids had a great time at the Lewisville Old Town Waterpark yesterday, I have to say that I'm very impressed with the amount of awesomeness that my city offers for such a small amount of cash. For only $6 (Ragu was free) I was able to take my boys to the waterpark and have a really great time. And it was super clean. With lots of shade. And I got a chair!

One of the highlights was when one of the kids pooped in the pool. Everyone had to exit the water until they got all the poop out. Then I'm sure there was some code they had to abide by for cleaning poop reminants and making sure all the poop germs were gone. We had to wait for at least 20-30 minutes. I didn't care. It wasn't one of my boys who pooped in the pool. They might have poop on their underwear but at least they go in a toilet. Well, 2 out of 3 anyway.

Besides the 2 awesome waterparks that my city, Lewisville, has for it's citizens, look at this...

EEEEEK! Isn't that cool? Hey, we're no sleepy town. Check out the names on that poster. Excuse me! Led Zeppelin? B.B. King? Janis? Santana? Incredible String Band? (OK, I don't really know who the Incredible String Band is. But they sound incredible, right?) I just wanted to let everyone know that just 2 weeks after Woodstock all these performers were in Lewisville (then a raging population of a little over 9,000) performing at the Texas International Pop Festival (Yeeee-haw ya'll!) Because when I think international pop festival, Lewisville is the first place I think of. Totally.

Another cool thing about my city is that back in 1934 The First National Bank was robbed by The Barrow Gang. That's Bonnie & Clyde people. OK, so Bonnie and Clyde weren't actually at the robbery itself, but they were here earlier that year scoping it out. My point is... I'm not real sure. But we're pretty darn special. I tip my hat to you Lewisville.