Mini-Va-ca

A few weeks ago (OK by the time I'm getting around to posting this is probably been at least a month)

we made the trip up north to go to Dewey's nephews wedding. They had a lovely outdoors ceremony in the spectacular Provo canyon. Congratulations Jarome and Niki!!

The wedding was a little delayed so we had some time to try and take some pics.  

We have lots of wonderful family in Salt Lake that we normally stay with when we make the trip up there. But this time we thought it would be fun for us to be tourists. So we stayed at a hotel in the heart of the city right next door to the Gateway center. We started our adventure by swimming in the hotel pool. I lost track of how many times Luke jumped off the side of the pool. He varied it up by being a "frog" every couple of jumps. Not many pics since we were all in the water splashing and having fun.

We then walked next door to the Gateway center.

We started at the Children's museum. Tt was the first time the boys had been there, they loved every minute.

A favorite of all THREE boys was the helicopter on the roof.

I had to drag all three of them back into the building kicking and screaming :)

I was pretty impressed with how well the Children's museum was set up. They an area donated by a local TV station which was pretty realistic and enthralled Kolby.

He thought it was pretty cool playing news anchor.

By the time we left it was time for a late dinner. We had a yummy dinner at Z Tejas. Luke claims that the corn bread was the very best thing we has ever eaten in his life. Our plan was to eat and then go to a short science movie at the Planetarium. We sort of didn't take into account that our 5 and 7 year old had been up and running at full tilt all day long. Kolby curled up and fell asleep at the restaurant. So we decided we would head back to our room and relax. However at the exact time we were done eating it started to rain, not a soft sprinkling but a hard downpour. Everybody else was standing by the door waiting, when it occurred to us that the last time we checked we don't melt in the rain. So we grabbed hands and took off running. We made it to a candy/chocolate store dripping wet so we could each pick out our desert. My brilliant hubby asked if we could have two extra bags. In no time at all he MacGyvered (pretty sure that's a word) little rain ponchos for the boys that went over their  heads. And back out we went to continue walking, we got a few strange looks but just smiled. Hey we live in the country we know how to improvise.

The next day on the way home we drove up Spanish Fork canyon to meet up with some friends that were camping. One of Dewey's oldest friends Mike and his wife Michelle have a darling son Kolbys age. The kids always have so much fun when they get together. This time it was a water balloon fight where they all ended up soaking wet. As we drove down the canyon talking about what a fun weekend it had been Dewey says "Somethings wrong" and pulls over.

A very flat tire. Did you get the timing, we say what a fun weekend and them blam a flat time..... anywho Dew hops out to change it which should take no time at all. Kolby helped by sitting in the spare and I "helped" by saying fudge and making countless references to the Christmas story movie. I like to do my part. As it turned out the tire iron bent and the tire would not come off. Luckily on the 3 1/2 hour stretch of road between Salt Lake City and Cedar City where the tire could have blown it happened to be in Spanish Fork Dewey's home turf. After a few calls his wonderful Aunt Vickie and cousin Bert came to our rescue. They took the boys to Grandma Warner's for water and snacks and brought back a bunch of tools. Between Dew and Bert they soon had the tire off and changed. So just a few hours later then we planned we were on our way home.

A very fun weekend, good memories full of laughs and adventure.