Foster Family Vacation 2013

Quite a few years ago Tony and I had decided to try and do a family vacation every other summer.  We've managed to pull off 3 in the last 10 years.  Our first was to South Carolina when Carson was about 20 months old.  The second was to the Oregon Coast when Alaina was about 10 months old.  This year we went to Utah.  

Day 1:  Lagoon

We stayed with Tony's brother Davin and his family.  We arrived at Lagoon right at opening.  We split up and spent the morning riding amusement rides.  The afternoon was spent at Lagoon-A-Beach with a nap for Charlie.  Then Davin and his family joined us for the evening.  The kids loved going on the rides with their cousins.  The highlight of the night was Rattlesnake Rapids.  Between the 4 adults the kids went down the ride a total of 7 times.  They were soaked from top to bottom! Carson is tall enough to ride all the rides and believe me that he did, and loved them.   Alaina got her face painted (which for the amount of time it lasted was not worth the $10, but Alaina used her own money, what could I say?)  Charlie even loved the rides.  By the end of the night he would put his hands up during the rides and then come to me afterwards and say, "That fun!"  with a big grin on his face.  Each of the kids got to play a game and win a prize.  The boys each got a snake and Alaina got a mouse.  By the end of the night we were all exhausted, but had had lots of fun.  Sorry no pictures.  It's a pain to carry a camera and ride the rides.  You'll have to take my word for the fact the kids had a blast.  

Day 2:  Temple Square 

We took the kids down to temple square to see the cool stuff there.  The afternoon included lots of walking but we saw some neat things.  

 Entrance to temple square

 In the visitor's center there was a really cool model of the Salt Lake Temple.  It shows you everything inside the temple.  It was really neat to see everything. I never knew there was a big chapel type place in the top levels of the temple.  

 Outside the tabernacle

 Inside

 Salt Lake Temple

 The family

The kids

We also saw the Beehive house and the new mall by temple square.  The mall was pretty cool.  A lot of it's outside with a creek running through it.  Most of the stores were a bit too ritzy for us, but it was cool to see anyway.