Monday

Monday the thermometer at my parents' house read 105 degrees!

In the morning after breakfast, Sammy and Jordan took turns making phone calls on the "old timey" telephone.




After that, Sammy went out to the backyard and caught a toad!

Then my parents took Sammy and Jordan swimming while Jamie and I took Claudia to the LBJ Library/Museum.

After lunch we went to a very cool little toy store called Atomic City down near the UT campus.

It's described on the internet as:

"You’ll find hundreds of Tin Toys… Robots and Spacemen… Spaceships and oddities… Betty Boop beaded curtains, inflatable pink flamingos, clocks with scary cat eyes and tails that swing, not just the typical ones either… but Otto Mesmer designed ones… There are shoes, shoes imported from special insane shoe makers from far off distant lands… T-shirts with the coolest of cult film creations upon them… Hawaiian shirts made seemingly for this store alone… where else can you get Sid Vicious Hawaiian shirts… Button up shirts with Sailor Jerry Tattoos with Zoot Suit Suspenders… all lit by Pulp Art Adorned Lanterns, which also happen to be for sale!
There are wallets and purses made from Japan, created of lenticular material that create cross dressing images of HAMMER HORROR monsters, watches with Roy Rogers and King Kong and G.I. Joe upon them… Universal monsters cufflinks and bracelets and button covers…
Petty and Vargas girl ties, science fiction jeweled Christmas ornaments… Oversized bugs and frogs and lizards and Platypus puppets… Posters from Japan of Kurosawa flicks and Barbarella…
This is a shop that Tim Burton would love, that Tarantino does love and where John Waters would feel strangely at ease."

Claudia bought a Gama-Go tshirt, which is a brand Amy and Marinda introduced her to. Sammy got a tiger bobble head and a unicorn.

Then we went for water and ice cream and headed to MF to go to the Slab with Claudia and Jordan's dad and cousin. The slab is a section of the Llano River that is usually shallow enough that you can walk across it. The water runs over sand and granite outcropings so there are rapids and varying depts to swim in.

After that it was home for pizza and sleep!