And Again.....

Well, it wouldn't be a Sat. if it didn't rain a ton and was was just yucky all around! So Carter's games were cancelled and we thought we are so sick of this and not being able to do all the yard stuff we are trying desperately to do, so we thought well what else could be do? Get out of the house and do something fun, which we haven't done for awhile- well not all of us. Matt did take Carter is Supercross last weekend, but the rest of us didn't go. Sooo.. we decided to go downtown to the Discovery Center!! Matt had taken the kids there once before, but I didn't go- who knows now what I was doing. We rode trax downtown and ate lunch out and then headed on over.

The kids were thrilled about taking Trax and besides getting drenched while running from the car to get on the train, it was great! Definitely not cheaper, or quicker, going that way, but we were in it for the experience I suppose. We just at Applebee's at the Gateway and practically ran full speed to the Discovery Center to finally get out of the rain for awhile.

Once you get over the sticker shock of how much it cost, it was awesome!!! what was kinda funny about it however, was that it felt like we were there for forever, but we were only there for a little over 1.5 hours. I had a lot of fun and usually time flies when you are having a great time, right? so I don't know what exactly our problem was, but what felt like 3 hours was about half that. Maybe cause we had been gone from home for so long anyways.....?

Each kid had favorite parts, of course, unfortunately none were in the same place. Lincoln of course LOVED the huge ball area. What is so exciting about putting plastic balls into tubes, is only known to a 22 month-old. Ella loved the kids sized kitchen in the house! It was really fun. She also loved the market, but was unable to play very long in there because Carter was eager to leave that area. It was a kid sized town with a construction site, market, farm, water play area. They had several cars to ride in and one that you could put gas into and fill the tires with air. So cute and fun! Carter's favorite area was probably the news station. Although I don't really know, he said he liked all of it when asked and seemed to bounce from one thing to the next pretty quickly! But nonetheless we all had a wonderful time. Oh, my favorite part was seeing how much fun my kids were having! Can't beat that!

We were ultimately there for only about 1 hour and 40 minutes. It felt much, much longer than that. After we left the center we went and got some candy from a candy store! What family day would be complete without a trip to the candy store? Of course after we left the candy store it started to rain again! Urg.... But we shortly hopped back on the trax and headed home. The kids were more subdued this time. Ella even fell asleep on the trip back to the car and then everyone else fell asleep on the car ride home. It was a good day. We haven't done something like that for awhile and it was good for us! Days like that are what makes it really fun to be a parent!