A Week of Staycations

Ron is required to take a 2 week block off work due to banking rules.  Since we still had a week left of his vacation after St. George, we decided to do a bunch of staycations. 

We started off the week by heading to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point.  This is one of the places that we have wanted to head to since Lucas has become obsessed with dinosaurs.

The kids had a lot of fun with the activities and looking at all of the dinosaur skeletons.  One my my favorite parts was when the kids got on the scale to see how much they weighed compared to a dinosaur.  Combined, they only weighted barely over 100 lbs.

 On Thursday, Ron, Lucas and I went to see Brave.  We left the girls at my parents house while we were gone.  When we were leaving, they were looking out the window at us.  I don't think that they seem very sad that we were going.

We enjoyed watching the movie and munching on some popcorn.  It wasn't my favorite Disney movie, by far, but it was cute enough and the main character is adorable.

After the movie, we headed up to Park City with my parents.  We stopped and did some shopping at the Tanger Outlets.  There were some pretty good deals.  While Ron and I were finishing up a little bit of shopping, my parents took the kids to the playground.  They were so happy to play.  Every time we go up there, they ask to stop and play on that playground.

After the outlets, we headed to Baja Cantina for dinner.  There was a bit of wait, so the kids had fun playing on the stairs outside.  Lucas had fun making friends with the hostess.  After a yummy dinner, we went over to Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and my parents bought the kids each a chocolate covered Oreo.  Mmmm!

We bought the Pass of all Passes this year that gets us into Seven Peaks Salt Lake for free.  On Friday we headed that way.  It was pretty packed, so we only stayed for a few hours.  It seemed like a great amount of time though.  The kids had so much fun in the kiddie area, lazy river and wave pool.

 

 To end our week, we headed out to Copperton Township and went to the park there.  It was so much fun.  For quite a while, we were the only ones there.  The kids loved the swings.  I am so happy that Emrie is no longer afraid.  After the park, we went to Chili's at Jordan Landing.  It was not a good experience.  The service was horrible and extremely slow!  On top of that, the girls were definitely not being angels.  :(

What a wonderful week of staycations.  Each year when Ron is off for his 2 weeks, we get very used to having him around.  I was really sad to see him go back to work on Monday.