Another exhausting weekend! But it was
alot of fun. Spencer's birthday is this Thursday. This year when the other kids have had a birthday we have taken the family somewhere to do whatever the birthday kid wanted to do. It has been fun. Dean needed to haul a trailer to
Payson for the
UHS Marching Band.
They were in a competition out there. I thought that since Dean was having to go out their anyway, the rest of us might as well go with and do something for Spencer's birthday. (Kind of a 2 for 1 trip....gotta save on gas!!)
I asked Spencer what he wanted to do in Salt Lake. I thought he would choose to go to a haunted house. I was surprised and a bit relieved when he said he wanted to go to the "Body Worlds Exhibit". He had seen it advertised on T.V. I didn't know too much about what it was. We looked up the website and got tickets for Friday night. This exhibit is very interesting. It is learning about anatomy, health, and how the human body works by viewing real human bodies. I was a bit skeptical about going, but Spencer has always been interested in this kind of thing. He used to love looking at my old college anatomy book when he was little. These are real bodies
preserved through a process called "
plastination". They did not allow you to take cameras or even cell phones in the exhibit so I didn't get any pictures. But if you want to know about it you can click
here. At first I thought it was a little freaky, but it really was interesting. It was a good learning experience to be able to show the kids what healthy lungs look like, and what smoker's lungs look like. What a healthy liver looks like and liver from a person who drank
alot.
After that we went to dinner at Marie Calendars. Not Spencer's first choice for dinner, but most places were busy, and we were starving and did not want to wait. After that, we went to our motel room and the kids swam in the pool. Dean went with them and I enjoyed the peace and quiet all by myself!!
Saturday morning we had to get up and going and get down to
Payson with the trailer and meet up with the bus loads of kids. It was pouring rain. The band played in the rain.
We got completely soaked watching them.
After the competition a stop at
Cabela's (Can you
believe we went in and out of that store and didn't buy anything? And I had Dean and two boys with me. Amazing). We had passed a mall and I said "Who wants to go shopping at the mall?" Knowing the reaction I would get from the males in the car. But it was Caitlin who said "No way! I am not going into a mall!" When we got to
Cabela's, we were walking in and Caitlin turns to me and said "Now this is my kind of mall!" Could she really be
MY daughter? You gotta love her!!
On the way home I looked in the back and saw four exhausted, worn out kids. Isn't that how we like them?
We had a fun weekend. Sorry to family who live out in the Wasatch Front. We didn't have a minute to call or stop by to see anyone.
Maybe next time!