With no neighbors to play with and nothing else to do, Saturday afternoon was going to be totally lame. Matt suggested going downtown. The boys were unimpressed. They whined. They complained. We persisted. We loaded up the van and--what do you know--had lots of fun. The best part of the day is that we didn't have any schedule to keep.
Riding the train is a really good time. We hopped on and off enough times that the kids became experts at mass transit.
Our first stop was Temple Square. We'd never brought the boys to the Church History Museum.
One look at this ship prompted Ben to run (he probably should have walked) back to thank me for bringing him here. We'd only been there for 5 minutes and he was already impressed.
The ship bunks had beans (or something bean-like) in the mattresses. The kids decided they could never sleep on them, especially not for 2 months.
I told the boys I'd take a picture of anything they wanted. Ben liked this stained glass.
Angel Moroni is big and super cool.
Noah practicing for future conference talks.
Zack would have stayed at this pulpit forever. He had a whole thing going here-mouthing who knows what, waving arms, dramatic expressions. Fortunately, he wasn't in silly bathroom words mode.
There is an I am a Child of God exhibit that was really entertaining. They have a bunch of hands- on things especially for kids.The boys built temples:
did CTR rubbings and colored and built stain glass designs.
At the boys' insistence we stopped at the museum store. I would have bought this hat for Noah but he didn't want it.
We walked around the temple grounds. Zack was happy to see that we have some "temple flowers" growing at our house too. The boys are lovers of fountains.
All this water was making them anxious to get to the Gateway. I was getting a little worried that because they were already in swimwear they'd just jump (or fall) into one of the fountains.
We don't go to the Gateway very often, but often enough that the boys remember Ben & Jerry's is right by the water.
A big rain storm was coming and it was cooling off so they didn't get to play for very long.
This is the first year Zack has wanted to get wet. He had a blast and got blasted in the face a few times too.
A little yummy pizza to finish off the day.
I don't know how many times the boys used the words fun and thank you yesterday. We all had a really good time. Hopefully now they'll stop wasting time complaining so we can spend more time having fun.
