Labor day weekend, Mary and I decided to check out Lubbock, a university (Texas Tech) town three hours north of Midland. Incidentally, I got my masters from Texas Tech.
First, we headed to the Science Spectrum, a very hands-on museum. By hands-on, I mean that every exhibit is either a puzzle requiring tenth grade reasoning skills, or a really cool visual activity that requires a full fifteen minutes of observation. Mary paid attention to every little thing, so it took us a few hours to make our way through.
Super-cool is their OMNI theater. Unfortunately, it was another 2 hour wait for the next showing of Ocean World so we opted for Rescue, an interesting mini documentary about rescue response to
natural disasters.
Mary's next priority (or first, if you paid attention to the whining on the way into the science museum), was to visit Joyland. Who knew Lubbock had a theme park?
Sunday, we took a trip out to Buffalo Springs Lake. I was pleasantly surprised and made a mental note to visit this place again with the popup and a couple of kayaks. There were many campers on this holiday weekend and the lake was busy with boats, jet skis, and swimmers.
Before heading home, we checked out the local orchard (by local, I mean the only orchard I could find on a web search within 4 hours of Midland, where water restrictions are still in full force, and the reservoirs still stand at 16% of capacity).
We spent some time picking various kinds of apples.
When we got home I realized three things:
a. picking apples at an orchard sounds very quaint and charming, but it was actually very hot and smelled like rotten fruit
b. nobody in our house actually likes eating apples
c. between us, we had returned with around 5 pounds of bruised apples
So, we baked an apple pie.
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