Downtown Fort Worth {Making August Count}

Today's Making August Count post features our family morning in downtown Fort Worth. Fort Worth is an interesting concept to me...even though I've lived near it for over a decade I haven't actually spent that much time exploring all it has to offer. Our home now is technically in Fort Worth, although we are also considered Roanoke. We had vouchers for free circus tickets {which we get to use next week!!!!} but in order to use them we had to visit the Fort Worth Convention center box office. We figured this would be a bit of a drive so to make it worth the while we looked up fun, FREE things to do in the downtown area. PS If you haven't bought circus tickets yet and can go to the Fort Worth show next WEDNESDAY night (opening night), tickets are only $10 if you can go get them at the box office! Or if you need to go another day you can get a 20% off coupon from Carter's stores. 

After picking up our tickets, we let Eva play and run around in the Fort Worth Water Gardens. They have several pretty water fountains, although it did seem that some were turned off. Maybe to converse water right now? Even though it was a million degrees outside there was a breeze and some shade so it wasn't too hot. This would be a great picnic spot to visit again in the fall.

Hello down there! How creative was the person who designed this? 

We were able to leave our car parked at one meter spot for the whole time we were there. I think we parked for about 3 hours for about $2 in quarters we found at home before we left. To get from place to place we enjoyed riding Molly the Trolley. This is a FREE little trolley that takes you around downtown. I may have had to chase the trolley down for us to jump on initially - I think I ran more and faster in that minute than I have in the last year. Whew! After that it was smooth sailing riding. We ended up getting on and off the trolley at several places. Eva said riding the trolley was her favorite part of the day.  

One of our stops was for some Starbucks. I may be raising a child who enjoys the finer things. Vanilla box milk, anyone? She really likes to go to Starbucks. Really.

Cooling down our toes! We walked a bit around the Sundance Square area and visited the museum at Fire Station No. 1. Note: this is an interesting museum with old artifacts and photos. It does NOT have much to do with being a fire station. Glad I hadn't tried to pump up that part. I just told her we were walking around looking at things. 

Yee-haw! I married this cowboy because he always makes me laugh! This was part of the First Station museum. Definitely not a fire truck, but still silly. For a great list of FREE family (or date) ideas in Fort Worth click here.