Houston Childrens Museum

We took the boys with us to Houston on Thursday, so they could have a chance to see where MD Anderson is and to have some sort of visual on where I'll be for the transplant. They were mostly just excited to get to the Houston Children's Museum, and didn't seem to care too much about seeing the hospital, but I still think it will be good for them to have some idea of where I am.
The Museum was great! It's not that big, and when we first went in, I was a little disappointed because I'd heard so many great things about it. But it turned out to be great. The boys loved it, and spent more than 5 hours, and would have happily stayed a couple more hours if they could have. It had tons of interactive stuff from making electrical circuits to make light bulbs go off and on, to seeing their voices on an oscilloscope, to putting together impossible puzzles (blocks in various configurations that you have to put together into a cube), to making "roller coasters" with nothing but pipe insulation, plastic cups, and masking tape. And a lot more!
We have very independent boys, none of whom were at all shy of simply leaving the area where we were, and going to another area they wanted to see. This made for a few different times wandering around the museum trying to track them all down.
I had my MRI at 5:00 and Ben took the boys on the light rail down to the downtown where they walked around, went into some of the tall buildings, ate french fries at Burger King, and otherwise killing time. I thought my MRI would be short, since the last one was only an hour or so. But it ended up being pretty long since they had to also do some sort of "spectroscopy" study where the MRI measures various chemical compounds in the brain (don't ask me how or why they do this). So I wasn't done until shortly before 8:00 PM (more than 2 1/2 hours in the machine!). But I won't have to have that particular study done again for 5 years, so that's good! Ben was starting to wonder where I was, and thought maybe my cell phone stopped working (I told him I'd call him when I was done, which I thought would be by 7:00 PM at the LATEST). So they came to the hospital, and were actually just coming down the hall when I came out of the waiting room! So it worked out.
We drove home that night and got in shortly before midnight. The boys and I are listening to "Eldest" (the sequel to "Eragon"), and that made the trip to and from Houston fly by.
Summer's going pretty well for the boys. We've been reasonably ok in keeping up with our goals of limiting computer play and doing school work every day. I get pretty sad when I think about how few days I have left with them. And a little freaked out when I think about how much stuff I need to get done in the next 11 days! I keep a notebook and pen by the bed because my mind races at night thinking about everything I need to do and pack to get ready for our adventures this summer, and writing them down helps me to actually be able to get to sleep.
I have some pictures from the museum, but I'll have to wait to post those until after I have a chance to open them and edit them first.