Two weekends ago the kids had a few days off from school. We had been wanting to take them to the Dinosaur Museum in Vernal so we thought this would be a good time to go. Then we thought it might be fun to stay a night out there. We found a hotel with an indoor pool and off we went! We left Sunday around noon, the kids were so excited, more excited to swim than to see dinousaurs. I was just excited to be getting them out of the house!! We took our time driving down, it took us 5 hours! We stopped at Wingers in Price for lunch and had to stop a couple times for Makenna to go potty. When we got to Vernal Danny took us out to the school that he had worked on last summer. He also showed us the apartment he lived in. He showed us the bench he sat on when he talked to us on the phone each night. The kids liked seeing that. We finally made it to our hotel around 5:00, I'm glad we decided to stay overnight.
The kids let Dad rest for a little while and then they were ready to hit the pool!!
The kids let Dad rest for a little while and then they were ready to hit the pool!!
We had the whole pool to ourselves, and it was so warm!!
We spent almost two hours swimming.
Makenna loved every second of it.
So did Natalie. Austin loved it until he got hungry, then he got out and wanted the rest of us to get out too! I called for a pizza and then he was happy again.
The next morning we headed to the Dinosaur Museum. It has been totally re-done and has moved to a new building.
It is a lot bigger and has a big children's area with lots of fun activities.
Here are the kids digging for fossils.
I love this picture, it looks like the pole is going right through Austin.
They had an art exhibit with lots of paintings of Dinosaurs.
They also had an exhibit of Indian artifacts, Austin loved that part. His favorite was the display of arrowheads.
Makenna liked the Indian petroglyphs.We spent a couple of hours at the museum and then started for home. We stopped at a saddle shop in Roosevelt and the kids got to see where the man made all of the saddles and chaps. We let Austin pick out a pair of chaps and he was so excited. He thought it was cool that he saw where his chaps were made. Makenna picked out a pair of pink cowgirl boots and was not leaving the store without them on her feet. Then Danny found some workboots on clearance for half price. We paid the man and got the heck out of there! We stopped for lunch and a few more potty breaks and finally made it home around 4:00. It was a fun little trip and I'm glad we went. Who knew you could have so much fun in Vernal???
