Kerr Christian Homeschool Academy

In the afternoon, we drove up the road to Amarillo and visited the American Quarter Horse Museum and then we drove by Cadillac Ranch before visiting Academy for a new pair of shoes and a Fazoli's for dinner!  We have friends who ride their bikes to eat - we've decided that we're the family who travels to eat.  Have a Fazoli's?  We'll be in your area before too long. The Quarter Horse Museum had an art exhibit and then we came to the children's area.  It's one of the nicest children's area we've seen.  You could stand behind cowboys/girls, you could answer questions on a computer about horses, you could "scan" a horse and see all the insides via interactive computer screen that lets you hear the heart and see the muscles, and you can listen to a talking horse discuss with this vet why he thinks he should be allowed to eat all he wants.  Upstairs, there is also several rooms which have a timeline of the quarter horse in America and highlig...

This year, instead of heading west to Prude Ranch, we decided to give the Okie Tex Star Party a try.  It's location is in the very tip of the Oklahoma panhandle.  Overall, the skies were darker.  However, to do anything besides sit in your tent/RV/bunk house all day, you had to drive 40 miles.  So, the extra things to do were much more limited.  Also, the lighting restrictions weren't as strict and the talks didn't sound as interesting.  Unfortunately, we didn't attend any evening talks due to unexpected RV problems. Our campground The Star Party itself

We started our 2016 star party trip with a stop at the Grand Canyon of Texas We left town after lunch and then got lost on the back road highways cutting across from US287 to IH27.  So, we arrived in the park after dark and most of the kids were asleep.  They awoke to these views from our campsite inside the canyon. We started our day by visiting the Ranger station to officially check in since we drove up as they were leaving the night before.  And then, we visited the visitor's center. After the visitor center, we had lunch with a few visitors..... ....and then we hiked one of the shorter trails through the canyon. We discovered a cowboy underground "house" and decided it was way too small for our family. In the evening, we drove the canyon.