Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Discovery Gateway & The Fountains

On Monday we went to Salt Lake and went to the Discovery Gateway. The supervising adults: Myself & Sara (Ryan's cousin) and the pretty good, somewhat-out-of-control kids: Dallon, Erin, Phoenix & Madison (Sara's niece). Madison is visiting from Idaho/Montana and Dallon & her have become best friends over the last month. So I thought we should go and do some fun things while she was down here.


{Erin & Dallon}

The Discovery Gateway is a lot of fun. There are a lot of interactive things for the kids to do. They had a blast. The balls that get sucked up into the air hoses were definitely a highlight! As for Phoenix, she could have stayed in the "house" the entire time. But she was a good sport and when it was time to move on to the next floor she went without even throwing a fit! For the most part I think we escaped without any "major melt downs" - and that has to be a historic moment for our group!


{Madison & Dallon}

Erin, well, I think she liked everything - she was just running back and forth to EVERYTHING, she wanted to make sure she didn't miss anything! Madison & Dallon really liked the helicopter on the second floor. However, there was a school that came while we were there and they kind of took over the museum! So unfortunately the kids didn't get to do as much on the second floor as they would have liked to, but they still had a good time!


{Erin, Madison & Dallon in the helicopter}

After the museum we went to the fountains. Anytime we go to the Gateway Dallon loves to go run through the water. Not that it was warm! I think it might have been in the upper 60's, with NO sun and a slight breeze - and later on we all got rained on as we headed back to the car. Phoenix doesn't like to run through the water, not that I can blame her! But Erin, Madison & Dallon did run through the water, the girls were good about not getting TOO WET - however, Dallon (to every one's surprise, I'm sure...) was not so careful. He got very wet. But he didn't ever complain that he was cold.


{Erin, Dallon & Madison at the fountains}

We had a good time and thanks to Sara & Madison for coming with us!


{Sara & Madison at the fountains}


1 comment:

Jess said...

What a blast! The pictures make it look like it was a TON of fun. :) I wanna go! Glad you all had a fun time.