A Spring Break GetAway!

We took a quick trip down to Utah for the last part of spring break (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday). We got a hotel and it had an indoor pool...any parent knows that swimming at the hotel pool is usually the BEST part of any vacation for the kids - we could've stayed in Boise and got a room and they would've loved it! Our room had a fully stocked kitchen, which was great because we could eat everything in house . We weren't quite that good, but we did pretty good - what's a vacation without a few fast food stops? On Friday, after we got there we settled in for a minute and then went to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It was super fun...they had bat rays (they look similar to sting rays) that you could feel, shrimp that had to be behind bullet proof glass because they punch so hard they could break regular glass, and all kinds of other very cool sea / water life. My personal favorite were the teeney tiny sea horses - they were probably the size of 1/2 of a dime. They were very cool to look at. The kids enjoyed this very much! On Saturday I went for a quick visit to my grandparents in Orem. I try to do that if I'm anywhere in the vicinity. Anyway, after I got back we went up to the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake. It was fun and the kids loved watching the gorilla eat rolls and rolls of paper. We had a heck of a time keeping the Texas by us - he would look at something and he was off to see the next thing (he did the same thing at the Aquarium) he loved every minute. The water at the pool was too deep for the little boys, so they hung out on the stairs most of the time...and for the most part they got along. Hunter and Gwennie had jumping contests and just loved being in the water. They were sure wiped out by the time we hit night #2.