Thursday we woke up and got ready ( a little later than we'd originally planned on ). Hyrum wanted to go swimming again. We told him we couldn't. I think he's addicted now.
Today we started at
The first bird we came across was the Great Horned Owl.
Hyrum looked at the sign and said "He looks like this!"
I think he's right! :) Every time we asked him what a Great Horned Owl looked like this is the face he'd make. So funny.
We checked out all kinds of birds and watched another bird show where a King Vulture nearly landed on our heads
Then we saw a type of falcon up close after the show.
After the Aviary we headed downtown to the Lion house Pantry where we ate a ten dollar lunch each for FREE!!!
Then there was the rocket ride back to the car
Derek is my hero. It was so hot and he was so tired but not only did he rocket Hyrum around but he continued to do it so I could get a picture.
From there we headed to
This place was amazing. Seriously so fun.
Hyrum got stuck here forever
It had these pressurized tubes that sent balls flying around. Hyrum loved it...but was so serious about doing his job of putting the balls in the tubes. :)
Then we made it back here and he didn't want to leave
There was a GIGANTIC water table that he spent the most time at.
and got COMPLETELY soaked at
But we were ultimately able to tear him away to go to the construction section
Even Noah loved Discovery Gateway. There was an area for tiny kids and he LOVED playing with all the texture toys in there.
After that we went upstairs where they had a real helicopter (Hyrum wouldn't get anywhere near it) that Noah and I got in. It wasn't really going of course but it sounded and felt real.
They had some really cool experiments that were a bit over Hyrum's head but regardless of the science of terminal velocity and lift he really liked this
After this we headed to the Planetarium. We were going to watch a movie on their IMAX screen (for free!) but they weren't playing anything that we thought Hyrum would watch so we looked around a bit and left.
We had planned to go home after this but we were sad that it felt like our vacation was over (even though we still had another day of fun) so we decided to try this again
I love botanical gardens
Our main reason for going here was the childrens garden. Among other things they have fountains that kids could run in but Hyrum had no interest in them but he liked the waterfall
There were a few weddings going on at the gardens that night. Many of the guests were wandering the gardens and there were quite a few in the children's garden taking pictures and enjoying the scenery. Hyrum and Derek went to a part of the gardens I couldn't get to with the stroller and I wandered around. I finally just found my way back to the fountains to find Hyrum running through them with two little girls from the wedding party.
They were all soaked
and having a BALL
This one particular girl would not get out of the water and no one from the wedding party could go in after her unless they came out soaked as well. So she and Hyrum ran and played until they finally convinced her to come out to go get some cake.
Those wedding pictures will be priceless.
And for the second time in one day Hyrum was soaked.
I guess he got to swim after all.
1 comments:
Jenn J. said...
Wow, with vacations, family in town, and a new baby I have really fallen behind on my blog checking. I've missed so much here! SO fun to have your sister in town for the 4th, the camping = hilarious... totally things we'd do if we went camping I'm sure, and I'm loving your staycation posts! You guys have been so busy! Call us next time you're hanging out in SLC and we'll come meet you! We have passes to the zoo that we have only taken advantage of once. :) We need to go again. Anyway, I miss you guys! And I LOVE all the posts!