On our way back to Houston after visiting the G-Parents in Dallas this weekend, Number One had just fallen asleep (an hour and a half past her naptime) when she woke up abruptly and very upset. We needed to make a pit stop, so we pulled into a rest station just north of Huntsville.
Amazingly, it had a playground, which gave Number One a chance to stretch her legs and play long enough to tide her over for the remaining part of the trip. But more importantly, it had a photogenic patch of Bluebonnets.
I'd seen them all the way to Dallas and back - Texas in April, once you get past the urban sprawl, is really one of the most beautiful places on Earth - but I didn't want to be "that dad" that pulls over and shoots some pics of his kid on the shoulder of I-45. This, though, was my chance.
And so, I present to you, the Obligatory Kid in the Bluebonnets Photo.