Family Fun: Day One

  Our first stop on our Family Fun weekend was actually the InstaCare.  It turned out that Titus vomiting at the graduation was only the beginning of his illness over the weekend.  After a worrisome and sleepless night, Titus and I headed off to the InstaCare first thing in the morning while Jeff and the rest of the circus occupied the hotel pool.

  After a breathing treatment at the InstaCare, Titus was good to go so we were off to the Hill Airforce Base Aerospace Museum, which none of us had ever been to before.

 The kids loved it!  It was free and we could have spent even more time there.  There were two huge hangers full of all sorts of aircraft from all different eras.  We especially liked the Uniform room, the information about Vietnam...

 ...and the F16.

 The weather was beautiful and the kids loved running around and checking out the planes outside.

 They each got a "pressed penny" in the gift shop, and Levi and Isaac bought small toy replica planes.  They pretended to bomb each other in the back seat for the rest of the weekend.

 After lunch at Famous Dave's, our next stop was the Clark Planetarium at The Gateway, which was also a first for all of us.  This museum is also free!  The kids loved this plasma globe and the cloud simulator.

 I was a huge fan of this to-scale model of our solar system with info about each planet.

 While we were waiting for the movie to start (which was not free) we could not get enough of this fun scale that told you how much you would weigh at other places in our solar system.  Levi was fascinated with the concept that he would only weigh 11 pounds on the moon.

 We all loved the sky inside the dome theater.  It made us excited for warm summer nights so we can spend more time watching the stars.  The gift shop at the Planetarium was super cool, and since the merchandise was reasonably priced, it will certainly be a future shopping destination for me.  I loved the selection of cool stuff they had.  Daisy bought a "Newton's Swing" and Levi got a gyroscope.  And yes, I have thoroughly enjoyed playing with them.

Our next stop was City Creek, which we hadn't seen before.  We got there by riding Trax, which is a favorite for the kids.

 The trout pool was a big hit.  Jeff was all sorts of stressed out about keeping our circus from falling in, or worse, peeing in, the water.  He found himself wondering why we chose to celebrate his graduation as a family by spending a weekend in a public place where other people could see how crazy we are.

 The Apple Store was, of course, a huge hit.

After doing a little shopping, we were headed back to the hotel.  All Isaac wanted all day long was "all-white (vanilla) ice cream."  His day was complete when we finally spotted a Dairy Queen and made the stop.  It was a long, busy, wonderful family day full of new experiences, new places, and fond memories.