Flight

Today I took the kids to Camp Mabry to visit the Texas Military Forces Museum. It had been awhile since our last visit, so Jackson and Olivia were eager to get their flight on.

Dinner was a crockpot soup with chickpeas, red lentils and smoked paprika that I found on Pinterest. I doubled the amount of smoked paprika because duh, it's awesome.

"Dessert" was a couple glasses of Buddha's Brew basil-honey-ginger kombucha. The new Whole Foods in our hood sells these growlers which are a good deal compared to buying individual bottles. 

I am still experimenting with making my own kombucha. Initial batches turned out too vinegary and not bubbly enough, but not long ago I learned about double fermentation and that makes it a lot better. Now I am working on adding different flavors. So far I have only done lemon-ginger, but I will post more about it after I try some different flavors and can offer some tips.

Avocados and Tanks

We recently had a pleasant brunch at Zandunga in East Austin. I was impressed by both the bountiful herb garden out front, and the unique wooden menus. That's right, they are made out of wood. 

We started out with chips and tasty salsa.

I ordered the Aguacate Relleno -- an avocado stuffed with corn and zucchini and topped with red sauce. I misread the menu and thought I would get a chile relleno filled with avocado. So when this whole avocado showed up on my plate, I was like, "Whoa? What's this? Well...OK, this is kinda awesome, actually!" I do love my avocado. So it all worked out. The cilantro rice was remarkably good, too.

After a nap, Tony took Jackson to a special World War II battle re-eneactment at Camp Mabry. We thought that Jackson, being a 3-year-old boy, would really dig the tanks and explosions, and we were correct.

According to Jackson, the man gave a talk...

...and the tanks blew stuff up!

After the demonstration, the kids got to climb in the vehicles...

Little feet barely reach the pedals, but he doesn't let that stop him.

In summary, a tasty brunch, and a fun daddy/son outing. (Olivia and I went grocery shopping during this time, but that's not really blog-worthy, is it?)