With Tammy's 20+ years at the bank, she gets a bunch of vacation days. She always sets aside some of those for hanging out with the kids each summer. The fun started with a sleepover and pool party on June 18-19th. She buys a little three ring blow-up pool each year for the occasion and gifted them with new beach towels!
Later that day I had to get a better shot of Faith's mindblowingly neon bright shirt. My mom got her this cute outfit at Justice in Park City and the camera can not even come close to capturing the true color. Fluorescent colors take me back to the 80's!
On the 22nd, we decided to head to Thanksgiving Point and check out the Museum of Ancient History for the first time. WOW! It was so much fun that we spent nearly all day there.
Shortly after we got there, Tony stopped by in his work truck. Since he delivers in the Provo/Spanish Fork area, the kids hadn't seen his "big truck" in years. They loved seeing the cab and Christian even blew the air horn!
Tony was, as usual, hauling doubles (two trailers) that day.
Back to the museum--the kids loved all the dino bone replicas.
The favorite activity was the sand and water table that showed the effects of erosion. The kids built dams and islands and played with the little plastic dinosaurs and palm trees. We had to promise them more time here to get them to leave for the 3D movie!
We saw "Sea Rex" which was a really interesting film about sea reptiles during the time of dinosaurs. Christian got a little bored with it because it was more informative than "fun" and I told Tammy not to get snacks since we were going to lunch right afterward. Now I've learned, kids + movie = snacks are a necessity. Another fun activity was this buildable dino. It had velcro parts that you could interchange.
This head almost ate Buddy!
They also had a great sand area where you could excavate dinosaur bones.
The kids couldn't leave without a trip to the gift shop, and Grandpa Braegger had given them each $6 to spend there. I tried to talk them into scorpian suckers and chocolate covered insects, but they got stretchy glow-in-the-dark dinos instead.
Next, we visited the Farm Country center there at Thanksgiving Point. They had a few interesting things like a chick hatching out of it's egge in an incubator, some goats that you could feed through a fence, and pony rides, but overall we weren't very impressed with it.
I thought the neatest thing was that the kids each got to milk a goat. They usually have a cow to milk, but she had mostly dried up due to expecting a baby in a few weeks. Both Faith & Christian did really well!
The kids went with Tammy, Lana and Zach to the zoo the next day. Thanks Tam for all the fun!
On the 26th we went to Lagoon again and Tony even talked the kids into going on the Terroride on our way out. Christian told me afterward, "Mom, you know the spooky guys in there really are spooky!"
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