Road Trip 2010--Day 6

After spending the weekend with Kara's family, we were ready to get going on Monday morning.  Unfortunately, Kai's tummy had other ideas.  He woke up feeling quite sick (and, well, tossing his cookies).  So, we let him lay down and watch TV while I visited with Kara some more and slowly packed up all of our stuff.  We weren't sure if we would be able to move on or if we were going to spend another night.  While visiting with Kara that morning I also discovered that Finn had finally cut his first top tooth.  The poor kid had been close for quite awhile, but there it was, tooth number 3!

Around noon Kai woke up and was looking very pale, but asking for food.  I rummaged up some food for him and his color quickly returned.  He kept his food down and said he was ready to play, and he was almost enthusiastic about it.  So, we loaded up the car and decided to press on.  Our next stop:  The Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point (aka The Dinosaur Museum).  This was what Kai had most been looking forward to on our entire trip.

We arrived later in the afternoon and knew we didn't have too much time, but we still were able to enjoy most of the museum.  Kai's excitement level varied during our walk through the museum.  At first he was excited (especially when we were in the general science area), and then he was apprehensive and "scared".  He definitely did not like the dinosaur soundtrack playing and the lighting that casted large dinosaur shadows throughout the museum.  But he loved the hands-on exhibits, especially the large sand and water table and the fossil dig.  On our way out there was a table set up for the kids to make witch hats for Halloween.  Kai enjoyed all of that quite a bit.

Kai next to a dinosaur leg

 

Playing with toy dinosaurs

The HUGE sand and water (and dinosaur) table

 

See Kai covering his ears?  He did not like the roaring dinosaurs!

Compare Kai to Finn.  Finn couldn't be happier.  Such different boys!

 

The BYU dinosaur

From the museum we made our way down to Springville where we had dinner at Hogi Yogi (yes, more ice cream!) and then went to Amy's house for the evening.  It was good to visit with Amy, Dan, and the girls again and it was so nice to be with friends.  Kai and Finn loved their toy room and seeing other kids their size.  I think all of the kids were excited to play together.

With two days left of our vacation, it was at this point that we made the decision to begin the journey home a day early.  We decided that cutting the car ride in half would be easier on everyone and I knew just where we could stay on the way back--Glenwood Springs!