ON THE ROAD

I've had the whole week off from school, so I decided to take the kiddos on an impromptu trip to Sat Lake City. They'd never been to the Planetarium, so I decided to take them there. (Mostly cause I was trying to find something cheap and fun) Believe me, the planetarium is much more of a "Dad" thing. He could definitely have explained the exhibits better than I could (he's kind of a science geek LOL) but oh well!!
We started out at the cloud exhibit. The kids thought it was pretty dang cool! You'd have thought they'd never seen fog before LOL

 Next was the telescopes.

 Preston was convinced he was getting struck by lightening.... there was no convincing him otherwise.

 The Black Hole exhibit was pretty funny! You insert coins and they spin down into the "Black Hole". Of course, the kids had to give it a try... after his quarter disappeared, he said (VERY LOUDLY) "Wait, did that thing just waste my quarter?" Everyone around us just busted up laughing! Too bad he didn't figure that out BEFORE he wasted the quarter HA!

Racing to see who could turn the light on the fastest.

 Making the pendulum swing

 Who know a globe could be so fascinating?

 I thought boys were from Jupiter....

 Um... it's the moon that doesn't have gravity, baby girl!

 After the planetarium, we went to dinner and then went to ZooLights at the Hogle Zoo. It's really not that great, but the kids thought it was pretty fun! Basically, they just put thousands of Christmas lights up and turn off the other lights. I have to admit, the zoo is CREEPY in the dark. Here they are trying to see the monkeys. It was pretty funny watching them freak out when they discovered that the little eyes staring back at them WERE NOT theirs! HAHA!

 Preston LOVES the giant Elephant at the Zoo. He always has to climb on it and make it "scream"

It was a FUN trip!