Monday Fun Day in SETX

You may have noticed that I've been a little absent from social media and the blog this past weekend. I'm trying to do a better job on being more present in my adventures with people. This weekend gave me a few opportunities for that, such as seeing the One Direction film with my bestie, and spending my day off Monday with the boyfriend.

I'm trying to use my days off to explore everything that Southeast Texas has to offer. My boyfriend and I hit up the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur for the first time on Monday. I never realized just how many famous people were from this area before hitting up this museum! Also, getting to see the history of the area was really interesting. There was also a cool exhibit about postcards that had a dress up station (which I took full advantage of). 

I had big plans to take the boyfriend to the old fashioned soda shop in Port Neches, but we found out the hard way that it was closed on Mondays. Instead, I took him to one of kiddo's favorite seafood restaurants before we headed on to the Art Museum in Beaumont, 

I love the Art Museum, and not just because it's free. It always has cool exhibits that have made me come to love art and not just appreciate it. Before we went inside though, we saw that the Energy Museum next door (sadly, not open on Mondays) was gearing up for Dinosaur Day! I had to take a few pictures, even in the downpour. 

Once the downpour started again, we bolted to the Art Museum of SETX to see the new exhibits, I liked this a lot more than the last ones. I'm never sure if pictures are ok in art museums because different ones have different rules, so enjoy these pictures of the handouts that I took home.

This one was AMAZING! It's art based off of the xrays of seeds and plants. How much cooler can you get?!

This one didn't strike my fancy as much, but I greatly enjoyed the food made out of old newsprint. I think I need to go back and spend more time looking at it, because I don't think I truly "got" this exhibit. 

Thursday will be another day off that I get to do some exploring with kiddo. She LOVES to see the scarecrows at the local botanical garden, so we plan to hit that up if the weather is nice. Also, it seems like the perfect time to head out to a pumpkin patch and get our pumpkin for the season. 

Also, I have next Monday and Thursday off too, so I'm going to scour the internet to see what else I can see and do around here that I haven't seen yet to check off my list.