In an attempt to improve health, Ricky and I are going through some allergy elimination treatments. Kevin did the process a couple of years ago with great success. One of the top things on my list of “allergies” was pet dander. It was also on Kevin’s list yet he had never been treated for it because it requires you to avoid animals for 25 hours. Yeah. We live with 3 cats and, at the time, 2 dogs.
Since it was on my list and was borderline for Ricky, we planned a little trip away from our house. We got a hotel room in Ogden and spent 25 hours just playing.
Our first stop was the Children’s Treehouse Museum.
A little time on the fire truck …
A lot of noise in the music room …
A visit to the “oval office”…
An astronaut visit …
Some computer time …
Some drawing (shh, we didn’t know those weren’t white boards meant to be drawn on – they cleaned up well)…
A pony ride …
Yeah … um … I don’t know …
See how much fun we are all having at the museum?
Next we went to the local mall for a train ride. For a small fee, you can ride this train from one end of the mall to the other and back again. It was surprising how cool the boys thought this was! Ricky and Billy were riding at the front in the coal car.
Then we had another treat – lunch in the mall food court! It is truly the simple things that amaze my boys! We all had Chik-Fil-A. The boys were very well behaved and two very nice older ladies came over to compliment me on how cute and good my boys were. Gotta love that!
After lunch, we went for a drive over to Antelope Island. We didn’t know it was the day of the Buffalo Round-up. If we’d known that, we would have planned to stay longer and see the buffalo come into the pens, but this was just another stop on our day of fun.
The reason we couldn’t stay was that we had tickets to see “Hotel Transylvania” with Grandmama. It was Rusty and Tommy’s first visit to a movie theater and was totally priceless! Every time the dracula made a scary face or whenever someone kissed, Tommy giggled loudly! It was a very cute movie and Tommy ate popcorn straight for the entire 2 hours.
We ended our night at the hotel with pizza, some TV watching, and 4 very tired boys. Tommy had a rough night that included falling out of bed and getting a black eye.
The next morning we only had a few hours before we could head home. We ate breakfast at the hotel restaurant, where we were again complimented by an elderly couple on how well behaved our boys were. The waitress was Asian and congratulated Kevin on giving me four sons. She was quite taken with the boys and kept refilling their juice and trying to bring them more food!
Then we drove to Beus Pond and did a little hiking and bird watching. The ducks and geese came right up to us when we started down the trail, but once they realized we didn’t have any food for them, they lost interest. The boys did not! Ricky was particularly taken with the birds. He kept creeping closer and closer and we were afraid one of those geese was going to get him!
It was too cold to stay out very long, but the boys didn’t seem to notice…
When our time was up, we were all happy to be back home to our furry pets …
It was short and we were never far from home, but it was a lot of fun being able to just focus on our family. I like them.
