Whitney had a long weekend off from High School and we had been trying to come up with a family vacation to take advantage of the time. It wasn't enough time to go very far and none of the ideas we came up with really appealed to us. We added up what 3 nights hotel and gas would cost us and decided to follow the national trend and take a "staycation." We invited everyone to pick one activity that they would like to do during the weekend, to make it fun, and took a vacation from the comfort of our own home.
Dad picked touring downtown Salt Lake City. What a great State we live in! We picked Dad up from the airport Friday morning (he was returning from a business trip to California) and we toured the Joseph Smith Memorial building. We enjoyed the view of the Temple from the 10th floor.
Then we toured the Church History and Art museum. This is one of Noreen's favorite paintings there.
From the roof top of the Conference Center. After touring we stopped at the Lion House Pantry for a great lunch.
Whitney picked going to a corn maze. We had never been to one before, and had fun finding all 10 markers (although not in order) in the maze.
Dad spent Saturday afternoon building our family a "Kubb" (rhymes with cube) lawn game. He had played it at the scout Jamboral and it's so fun to have our own set. I think of Kubb as a cross between lawn bowling, horse shoes and chess. We took our new game with us to Steve's parents' home where we spent the night and played lots of rounds. It was so nice to spend time with Grandparents and go to their ward the next day.
Daniel chose Discovery Gateway the Children's museum. Dad had never been, so it was fun to explore it with him on Monday.
Discovery Gateway was Ellie's choice too. Monday was her birthday and it was such a joy to spend the whole day together doing fun things.
Steve L. picked having a read-a-thon, so we stopped at the store for some mostly healthy snacks and the library for piles of books. Janey picked swimming, which we are going to do for Family Night on Monday, because we just ran out of time to do so many fun things.
Mom picked going to The Spaghetti Factory for dinner. It was a fun way to celebrate Ellie's birthday - with meatballs almost as big as her! We had a delightful and relaxing 4 days together and the "staycation" was declared a success!
2 comments:
So much FUN! holy cow though, noreen and Whitney, you look so much alike!!!
I got exhausted just reading about it. ...and the game was really fun. I think we will make one and teach it to our neighbors.
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