Sometimes we get together with the Sabins for an evening jog. Tonight we we decided to mobilize the entire family for the run. I’m not sure if it was our best idea, but it was worth a shot.
We typically run between three and five miles- too far for the kids to comfortably run. So we brought two bikes (that way the kids could run a bit and switch off when they got tired). We put the baby in a jogging stroller. It all worked okay. The kids took turns “dying” and anyone on a bike rode off into the event horizon. Maybe we’ll try it again sometime when the kids are all grown up!
After our run. Some of us are happy. Some of us are sad. But all of us know that mom is the toughest (she pushed the stroller most of the way)
So I’m going to give this blogging thing a shot- but I’m not totally committed to it yet. We’ll see how it goes (I’m going light on the text). 3:30am over here. Who needs sleep when you can share your memories with Internet strangers?
First a “thank you” to all our soldiers who have served and helped to shape this great country.
I decided it was important to spend the day with the family- moving tires and boxes to a storage unit could wait until another time. We started the day off with a trip to Fran’s favorite restaurant, The Sweet Tomato. It’s a buffet with salad, soups, pasta pizza and some desserts. The pasta is lackluster, but everything else is really good.
Lunch at The Sweet Tomato in Sandy
After lunch we visited the Living Planet Aquarium. What a cool place!
My wife and kids have been there before, but this was my first time. When I was on business in Georgia I visited the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. The Living Planet Aquarium is much smaller, but I thought it was just as fun.
The Jelly Fish are so weird, but they are mesmerizing:
The Lion-fish are beautiful but extremely poisonous:
All kinds of cool underwater life:
You can pet a Manta ray too:
And they even have penguins! These guys are adorable. You almost want to take one home with you:
And the otters. These guys were as cute as the penguins. I’d probably take one of each home. Wonder if they would fight?
There was a lot to see- I think we spent almost two hours at the aquarium!
The aquarium is absolutely worth visiting. In additions to fish, sharks, turtles, otters and penguins they have a spiders, snakes, frogs and other really cool underwater life. Now I’m excited to visit the zoo later this year.
One the way home we swung by REI to get the kids hiking shoes (kids grow- really aggravating). I’ve never seen the store that crowded. I should have taken a picture of the line we stood in.
I took the kids with me to run some errands (well, Gabe was asleep at this point) and they “helped” me wash the truck. I love my kids, but I got so sick of hearing “I want a turn” and “Let me try” every single time I switched the wash settings.
We used almost 15 mins of time washing the truck. Thanks kids!
After we got back Fran too the kids hiking with her sister. And I got those tires and boxed moved. A fun day, if ever there was one.
The other day Fran and the kids were playing with dominoes. I like the actual game okay but I think setting the dominoes up and knocking them down is way more fun. I used to spend hours doing it when I was a kid.
The kids and I did this for a bit until I got a bit too serious for them.
On Saturday (May 26th, 2012) Erin & Doug Atwood came to town! We had offered a game of laser tag last time they were in town so they took us up on our offer this time. The whole family went to Jack & Jill’s (in Lehi) and played a couple of games and then bummed around the arcade for a bit. I really like the Jack & Jill’s laser tag because the two story arena is fun and I like to see the laser beam when I shoot at people. I wish the facility was was run a bit better (one surly teen just doesn’t cut it).
The scores from our second game. No one checked to see who they were. We don't play to win. We just play.
