Field trippin...

I tried to be a good FUN mom by taking my kids on some short field trips to interesting places that are near to where we live. Can I just say that the kids LOVED it! So for at least a couple of days I was #1 Mom, the coolest that ever lived!, Nobody beats me with their coolness!

Oh yeah, that was me.

So Day one, we went to the Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden. Pretty cool place. It was a hot day and we didn't last long, but we still saw everything there was to see. It has GIANT dinosaur statues and the kids (especially Jonathan) loved checking out how big everything was and then posing for a picture. Good times.







On Day two went to Promontory Point to the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Such fuN!! If you are a Utahn and have a 4th grader, this is a must see place! During the course of their school year, they learn about how the railroads met up at Promontory Point and the Golden Spike that joined the two railroads to create one line across the country. We got there early enough in the morning that we got to watch as they brought the two trains out. That really was the best part! The tour guide would explain what the train was going to do and what whistles it would make and the kids listened so intently. I loved that part of it!!


Then as we were leaving, I noticed the sign to ATK (the rocket place) and it said to go 2 miles further and we could see the exhibit. So off we went on an impromptu additional field trip....

ATK was neat. No tour guides....just all the rockets there in cement and signs telling what they were. Kinda boring actually. But the kids stood in front of the Peacekeeper missile for me to take a picture of and that was neat, so it worked out.