Exploring Texas: Mother's Day At The Amarillo Botanical Gardens

When I was looking for things to do around Amarillo, my Google search suggested The Amarillo Botanical Gardens and I knew that, at some point during our stay here, we'd have to check it out.  As much as I love nature and florals, I have never had the opportunity to go the a botanical garden.  The closer it got to Mother's Day, I kept trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my day and I kept coming up empty.  My mind simply kept drawing a blank and I couldn't decide. So a couple days before, we decided it would be the perfect time to check out Cadillac Ranch (there will be a pt. 2 to this post) and the botanical gardens.

So that morning, I heated up the breakfast that I had prepped the day before and then we headed out. We first went to Cadillac Ranch and then drove around for a little bit trying to figure out where we wanted to go for lunch. I'm a great day planner, can't you tell? ;) So we ended up at Panda Express, which is always delicious and one of my faves, and then we went in search of our main destination.  We started to get a little worried when my husband realized that Google said it was closed on that day and I was bummed. I really wanted to go there. It was pretty much the main attraction for the day and if it had been closed, I would've had no idea what to do with the rest of our day.  Being optimistic, we decided to check it out anyway and were super happy to find that it was open! The guy said that it was just too much trouble for them to do all the necessary stuff to get Google to change all the information, considering their hours change multiple times a year, so they just left it the way it was. My lesson for you?  Call and see, even if Google tells you the place is closed! You might end up surprised!  So anyway, it was open and it was even more awesome because Bella got in for free and it was almost like we were the only people there. There was an older couple there and towards the end another family showed up. So we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves, which was amazing.

So, yeah! That's my long-winded introduction. :)  Now on to the pictures!  You'll also find a video of our little adventure at the bottom of this post. 

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Exploring Texas: Palo Duro Canyon!

My husband and I decided that, since we're in Texas, we're going to take advantage of it. There's so much here that we've never seen or ever had the chance to see so we're going to use his weekends off to their fullest extent. We already have a few outings planned (Cadillac Ranch, botanical gardens, weekend trip to Colorado, etc.) so we're excited to adventure out and see what Texas has to offer!

This past weekend got derailed a little because I ended up coming down with a cold on Friday afternoon. Instead of venturing out on Saturday morning like planned, we ended up hanging around the hotel room all day, only leaving to grab a couple groceries we forgot to get and getting our mega load of laundry done. Thankfully, as soon as I started feeling under the weather, my husband ran out and got some cold medicine and I spent all of Saturday morning in bed. That night we had a fend-for-yourself dinner and after the little one was asleep, my husband and I ate ice cream and binge watched Gilmore Girls.

By Sunday morning I was feeling a little more like myself. I wasn't 100% but definitely better. Instead of feeling like death, I only felt a little stuffed up and sneezy. No way was I going to let this random cold ruin our entire weekend, so I suggested we take a short trip to Cadillac Ranch. While Googling it up, I happened to see a link for Palo Duro Canyon, something that we would definitely be interested in seeing. So we decided to save Cadillac Ranch for a different day and head out to Palo Duro State Park instead.  Best decision ever. We naively thought that, at some point during our time here, we could take a weekend trip to see the Grand Canyon. But... it's almost ten hours away. So, yeah. That's not gonna happen.  lol. Palo Duro Canyon was super awesome though, so it'll do for now. :) 

Video of our adventure at the end of the post!

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