"Stay-cation"

Our kids were off track this month and instead of taking a vacation, we decided to save a few bucks and stick around town and have a "stay-cation." On Thursday our first stop was Kangaroo Zoo. The kids had a great time bouncing and running and jumping to their heart's content. My favorite part was that there were separate activities for the younger kids to do so they didn't get knocked over by the big kids. We ended up having the place to ourselves until after lunch time, it was great!!


Next stop was The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It wasn't as big as I thought it would be, but their exhibits were great. The kids really enjoyed it! They even had a stingray exhibit where you could actually touch them. Les and Cody were the only ones to brave that, but Kenzie tried it with the help/coercion of her dad!!

We went to The Mayan that night for dinner where we enjoyed a great show and yummy food, it was way fun!!

Unfortunately, Thursday night 4/6 of us ended up with a stomach bug and Friday was spent laying around the house getting better. Les made us some wonderful chicken noodle soup and we watched Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one) that night and had about as good of time as we could hope for.


By Saturday morning all was well with the stomachs again, so we headed down to Thanksgiving Point and went to the dinosaur museum. We had never been there before and I was pretty impressed. The kids had a great time. I think the favorite was the sand/water table. We also watched a 3D movie about dinosaurs that was pretty cool. Also, while in Lehi we checked out Cabela's and ran into my mom and dad. The kids thought that was great and they actually wanted to head home with them, but we talked them out of it so we could take them out to dinner. We went to Tucano's at Gateway and had an excellent dinner! That night we watched the second Pirate's movie and called it a day!



Next up was the Hogle Zoo. The weather was perfect and there was hardly anybody there, it was wonderful!! Of course we got the traditional pose with the gorilla photos, gotta love them!! We had a great time. After a very long day there, we went to PF Chang's for dinner and had some excellent food, although one of the dishes suggested by our waiter was a bit spicy for our taste! We ended the day with the final Pirate's movie and that ended our weekend of fun!!

I'm so glad we decided to do this. It's funny how you can completely ignore all of the fun things to do around your house and take expensive vacations elsewhere. I'm sure we could do this kind of "vacation" several more times and still not run out of things to do.