Trains, Planes, and Cars 2

On Day 8 of our vacation to Utah, we spent the entire day in Ogden. It was the museum day; we went to 5 musems!

We started off in the morning at the Treehouse Childrens Museum. I'd heard so much about it, and have thought about taking the boys there for years. They had a great time, and we spent several hours looking at all they had and playing with all the toys!

Jonah and Micah as firemen on the firetruck:

Jonah and Kanyon as Indians by the Tipi:

Ammon trying to pull the sword out of the stone;

Micah riding a horse in a rodeo:

Kanyon, Micah, and Jonah playing on computers in the heroes/book area:

Ammon playing along with an electronic trivia game on the giant state of Utah map:

After we saw all there was to see at the Childrens Museum, we ate a picnic at a nearby park, and then headed for Union Station. We walked through the entire train museum first.

Ammon and Kanyon on a historic train bench:

Micah and Jonah in an engine cab:

All four of the boys on a caboose:

Ammon playing with the "Candy Dancer":

There were several model trains running through miniature towns in glass displays on both sides of a hallway. We watched all the little trains for a while. It was fascinating!

After the train museum, we walked through the car museum and then the guns museum. Then we walked through the old waiting room in the center of the Union Railroad Station. I LOVE the floor!

And then we went outside to climb all over and in and around the historic rail cars.

This was the Elephant Ears Engine!

This was the last engine they climbed on before we left:

Our next stop was the Air Force Museum. We walked through the indoor museum section first. The boys loved looking at all the cool airplanes and helicopters and the neat paint jobs on them, too!

Then we walked outside around all the ginormous aircrafts!

It was very cool to see the large planes up close! It was also very hot, and we got some snow cones to cool down! We were still hungry after that, so I took the boys to a McDonalds with an indoor (and air-conditioned) playground, and we ate dinner and played for a while. Our next stop was to go miniature golfing. The boys were so excited! It's been a few years since they'd all been miniature golfing together!

Kanyon especially loved it! He was so excited! He wanted to go first on every hole:

There was one particular hole where the 3 older boys each got a hole in one. They were elated! Ammon's face shows his excitement after just seeing his ball go in the hole:

Micah cheering after his ball went in on the first shot:

Jonah celebrating when his ball got the right shortcut to get in the hole:

This photo was taken right before the 18th (and last) hole. It was also right before Kanyon started screaming and crying and throwing a very long fit after realizing the ball wasn't coming back and he had to stop golfing!

Then we drove across town to go to Sam's Club to get a few treats to take to the Drive-In Move Theater, which was just down the street. I'd been looking forward to that all day! My boys have never gone to a Drive-In, and I haven't gone since I was a teenager. We arrived a half hour before the movie began, and the boys started off by sitting by the car and snacking on the food we'd bought:

The theater is somewhat close to Hill Air Force Base, and the entire time we waited for the movie to begin, large jets flew low overhead on their way to land at the base. They were noisy and there was about 20 planes continually following each other! Thankfully, when it got dark and the movie began, they were no longer flying above us!

The boys began wandering around the area, and played in the gravel and found sticks to play with until the movie began. Boys will be boys!

We had pretty good seats, and since it was a weekday night, it wasn't overly busy, either.

We were so excited when the movies finally began! We watched Cars 2 and Zookeeper.

The first movie didn't start until 9:20, and the last movie didn't end until 1:00. I thought all the boys would be asleep by then, but only Kanyon was! I had such a great time watching the movies with my kids! Going to the Drive-In was one of my ultimate favorite activities this summer, and I want to do it again every summer now! I drove home to Tremonton after the movies ended, and the boys slept the whole drive back. It had been a very long day, and we got a lot accomplished! And other than Kanyon's screaming fits in the car, we had a great time, too!