Return to Idaho and "finish" the entertainment center

The Grand Finale, Friday, June 22

Children's Museum and Build a Bear

Kenyon is playing with a huge water display that has shutes, waterfalls, toys and gadgets to let water run through and do things with.

Downtown Salt Lake at the Gateway, there is a Children's Museum.  It is awesome.  Lots of hands on stuff to do and visit.  There is a huge ball pit, with air hoses that the kids put colored balls in the hoses and they go all over the room.  There is a grocery store, with plastic food, cash registers and everything to simulate shopping and groceries.

Cowabunga Wednesday, June 20th

Zoey, Parker and Mariah went to Cowabunga with us.  It's a water park, not far from the house, in Draper.  There are huge water slides, a lazy river and a beach type pool for the kids to play in.  The lazy river and the pool have heated water.  The huge water slides do not have heated water.  It was only about 75 degrees this day, so the kids spent the majority of time in the lazy river and pool.

Myka and Kyra played with Zoey.

Kenyon, Myles and Parker had a ball playing together.  The kids had fun playing with cousins all day.

Shop Time

The kids love to spend time in the shop when they come to visit.  I have several kits from Lowe's that the kids can put together.  This time they did a red school house that holds school pictures.  They all have their own shop kids with goggles, aprons, hammers and a few other tools. 

Myles is holding the finished project.

Snowbird Ski Resort

Monday, June 18th we went to Snowbird.  It was hot in the valley, but at Snowbird, it was atleast 10 degrees cooler.  They have all kinds of activities for kids to do.  One of the favorites was the trampolines with bungy cords and belts so the kids could jump as high as they wanted and do flips without worrying about falling off.

  We rode the ski lift to the top of the Alpine Slide and then rode the Alpine Slide cars down the hill.  We went on that several times  Kenny even crashed off his car.  No major damage, just some scratches.

There was also rock walls to climb.  The kids really did well on that.  Myles was like Spider Man.  He went right up the wall.  Myka went to the top of every rock wall she climbed.  They had fun there too.

We also rode the quad lift to the top of the mountain and found some snow!!  It was chlly up there.  The boys could have stayed up there forever playing in the water and streams, but it was chilly.  The view was incredible and we had a great day.

Chalk Art Festival

 On Saturday, June 16th, after the railroad museum in Ogden, we went downtown SLC to the Gateway to see the Chalk Art Festival.  I had heard this was the 10th year of the festival.  Some of the pictures were incredible.  One lady said she had spent 30+ hours working on her picture.

Of course the splash pad was there at the Gateway and the kids could not resist playing in the water for a bit.  It was pretty hot that day.