The first day we got there we got to go see the new Ice Age movie. It was cute and we enjoyed doing that activity with grandma. The movie was really cute. We all wanted to go and see Brave but missed the time it was playing.
The next day we decided that we would go and see The Ape Caves. Papa rode his Harley and we followed him. The kids enjoyed watching Papa.
Ryker was very excited to use his head light that he got for Christmas last year. He wore it the whole way there. It took us about 1 1/2 hours to get there.
Once we finally got into the caves Papa reminded us of when the it was dark for three days in the scriptures. The kids enjoyed having this story told to them and for them to realize how scary that might have been to be in complete darkness. Papa didn't get to stay with us for very long. He had to get back to work. We enjoyed spending the little time we had with him.
The kids in front of one of the signs. After we got done with the caves we went out for lunch. It was really yummy. We upgraded all of our meals and had shakes. By far it was the most expensive fast food experience we had gone to. It ended up over $50.
That night we got to go see Great Grandma Nielson. It was great spending time with her. She got out her little cat. The kids enjoyed playing with it.
While we were at Great Grandma's Reese thought that she needed to climb through this table. She did it over and over again. I thought it was funny.
Shane thought that Reese should do some exercises. She held on for about 2 minutes with his help.
The next day we went over to the OMSI. We have never been there before. The kids enjoyed looking around and discovering. In the picture above Brianna is holding a Australian Walking Stick. All of us held it. It was very interesting, on it's legs were little claws to grip with and when you blew on it, it would sway back and forth to look like a dead leaf.
This ended up being on of their favorite things. Playing in the water changing how the water would go down and building little banks with the sand. I think they could have stayed there for an hour. They were pulled away after about 30 minutes. We missed going to the physics portion of the museum. Grandma said that she wished that we would have made it for that. Maybe next time. Grandma was able to attend OMSI with us and we also went and watched a movie there called Tornado Ally.( I think that is what is was called.) We all decided that we should have gone to see a different one. It wasn't that exciting.
The next day I took the kids to do some school shopping and then when we got back Shane took them for a little walk. Most of them enjoyed it. Brianna didn't want to go but I think she ended up being ok with it.
Grandma got these foam noodles and some balloons out and they got to hit them around. Unfortunately they kept getting popped by Ryker. The grass wasn't super soft so it made it easy for them to get popped. The game only lasted a few minutes. It was really nice of grandma to think of them.
On our last night there Grandma got out the ice-cream trough. We filled it up with six different kinds of Ice-cream and got out all different kinds of toppings and let the kids dive in. The guys didn't want to have anything to do with it. Shane finally came out when the kids were done and ate some. I think this would be fun to do at a summer birthday party. The kids thought this was heaven.
We had a great time with Grandma and Papa. The time went to fast and we look forward to seeing them again. The kids cried as we drove away. I sure do wish that we had family that lived closer. We love you all and hope that we will see you soon.
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My kids love OMSI! That's one place we need to make sure and visit next time we're up there.
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