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Hey, it's Ryan.

Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Dad podcast. I was telling, I think I told you about this. I was just doing a little talk up in Wichita, Kansas, and a couple fun things from this. Anyways, my kids, we asked them recently, like, what do they really

want to do? What are they looking forward to? And they said, we want to go to a hotel and order

room service. It's the little things, right? And so we ended up taking them with us. We drove

from Austin to Dallas, where we stopped at this thing. My son has been so excited to see.

There's a thing called the Dinosaur Valley State Park.

And you can walk out in this little river and see these footprints left by these dinosaurs,

like 110 million years ago.

And he loves dinosaurs.

And so the idea that you could see a real dinosaur footprint, like not in a museum,

but just like out in the world, he just could not comprehend.

And he was so excited about.

So we ordered some sandwiches, took him with us in the car, stopped there, and it was funny.

We'd been telling them about this for weeks.

And when we finally got there, the night before, sorry, I scrambled a little bit on my story, but I forgot to tell you.

So the night before, we had this little fountain in our backyard, and I was explaining to my son that you can throw a coin in the fountain and you make a wish.

And we found a quarter, he threw it in there, and he made his wish. He didn't tell me what it was. And then as we're at this

dinosaur park, which cost zero dollars to get in because I have a Texas State Park pass, he goes, it's exactly what my wish dreamed of. And I was, you know, just hit me in a very special place. So anyways, we got back in the car, drove from Dallas to Wichita. The whole drive took about nine hours. And then we got in the hotel, took the elevator, which they were so excited to do. And then they got in the hotel room. And because it's Wichita, it was not super expensive. So we did two rooms, you know, where you open the two adjoining rooms and our kids just lost their mind.

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