Hogle Zoo

Last weekend we made a last minute and quick trip to Utah. We stopped by Cabelas for a few hours. The kids love to look at the fish, animals, airplane, and Madi likes to push the button to make the man talk. We never seem to buy much, if anything at all. I guess you could call it cheap entertainment. Madi always wants to eat at the Cabelas cafeteria, but never eats the hot dog she orders. I don't blame her, the hot dogs are nasty. Unfortunately she won't order anything else. Luckily, Gabe picks up the slack and will finish it off for her.

We then went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point for a few hours. The kids had a great time digging up dinosaur bones and making sand castles at the sand/water table. What stands out in their memory is the cracked dinosaur egg, computer games and the huge shark. Next time we venture there, we will make it a point to see the movie after strolling the museum.

Next, we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa Great Johnson. We were there for a couple hours as well. It was nice to visit. Mike really enjoys hearing his Grandpa tell stories of WWII. He's trying to gather as much information as he can to compile a book of stories. It is proving to be difficult. Grandpa doesn't share war stories with everyone. I can only imagine how difficult some of those memories are to recall.

The next day we spent several hours at Hogle Zoo. We saw the three-day old baby giraffe and many other new arrivals. We rode the zoo train and Madi and I took a spin on the carousel.

It was a fun filled trip and we came back exhausted.