Sorry, I don’t know that Christmas posts are going to turn out in chronological order because there is just SOOO much to say. Rob had the day off after Christmas, so we decided to go on a lot of random and fun adventures as a family.
1st: The Train. The Roy frontrunner station is literally just a few blocks east of our house, so we decided to take the kids for a little train ride. We rode from Roy to Woods Cross and back. The kids thought it was awesome! They loved looking out the window at the world rushing by. The rest of the day Mason begged to go ride a train again. (Sorry, I did not get any pictures of this part).
2nd: The Pond. Next we went to a little park/trail system just south of our house a few miles. There were soooo many ducks and geese! Neither boys could take their eyes off of them. We walked around the lake and let Morgan do some walking too. Rob and Mason also chased some ducks.
3rd: Cabelas. As we were driving away from the pond, Rob all the sudden pipes up with, “Hey, lets hop on the freeway and drive down to Cabelas and let the boys see the fish and all the animals”. So, we did. It was fun to be able to just spontaneously hop on the road and leave like that. Upon entrance in to the store, we first went to the big mountain with the little stream going around it. The boys were giddy about the giant trout swimming around just beneath them.
We also took them to the aquarium. Morgan was laughing and babbling at the fish the whole time! And Mason was talking up a storm about all the big fish.
Next we went into the trophy room and saw all the different animals. For some reason Morgan couldn’t take his eyes off a little stuffed skunk. He thought it was pretty cool. He also thought the quail were of note and fun to talk to.
We walked around the loop in there several times.
Then we ventured around to other parts of the store, and ended up in front of the African animals. Again the boys were delighted, and ended up spending a good 15 minutes or more sitting in these big sleds they had in front of the exhibit. They were perfectly content to stay in there and play and look at the animals.
4th: Thanksgiving Pointe. After spending almost 1.5 hours in Cabelas we decided to venture on over to Thanksgiving Pointe. We had every intention of going through the big dinosaur museum and driving around to see all the Christmas lights. But upon assessing the costs and our hunger, we decided to stick with doing a few children’s games out in the front lobby. Mason won some smarties tossing some rings on to a dinosaur, and also made a very nice rattle out of a paper plate and some beans. This was enough. We then walked across the street to the deli and had some delicious dinner and an ice cream cone.
The last thing to do was grab ourselves our favorite drinks and head back home again. It was a fun, jam-packed day, and we have decided to do this more often. Just take days off together and do whatever random thing comes to mind. It was the most fun we’ve had together as a family since who knows when :) (Well, since Christmas- haha!)
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