Utah trip day 1 - Clark Planetarium & Discovery Gateway Children's Museum

One of the things I wanted to do while we were in Utah was visit some of the places we used to enjoy when we lived there. And since we have a (somewhat sneaky) membership to the Boonshoft Museum that gets us into members of the ASTC (science & technology centers) & AZA (zoos), we got to visit the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum and see a movie at the Clark Planetarium for FREE!
We watched a movie about space pirates. It was silly, but the kids enjoyed it, and there was plenty of learning squeezed in. Also, I don't know when David started doing thumbs up in pictures, but you'll see it a lot in the coming days.

The Morrill children on the moon. You gotta take a picture on the moon. We have the same picture from almost 2 years ago when we went right before moving. Although it didn't have the same girl walking on the footprints in the background...

And here they are on Mars. See Ryan looking like he's gonna snap? I think this is the last picture I have of him smiling all day. In fact, I have a couple pictures of his back from him spotting me and running away.

After the movie and a brief look around the planetarium we made our way over to the children's museum. Here we, once again, were reminded that gender differences are natural and very real. Katy spent a lot of time playing with the housekeeping, while the boys built with giant foam blocks. None of this I bothered getting a picture of, you'll just have to believe me. Then we went over to another area, and David climbed the rock wall...

...while Katy went "shopping"...

...and Ryan worked as a cashier.

Then we went upstairs and outside to check out the helicopter. Tried to get a cute picture of Ryan. He did this instead. Lovely.

We found a way to keep David contained! Unfortunately, it was uncomfortably hot out on that deck, so we couldn't use it long.

Then we went back inside and played with these cool magnet shapes. Dan built this cool helmet, but David was the only willing model. Katy was busy playing, and Ryan was, well, you know.

So, that took up most of our first full day in Utah. It was kind of silly to not spend the time with family, but the boating activity the big cousins desperately wanted seemed unlikely to be fun with the forecasted thunder storms. Then it ended up being hot & sunny all day. Oh well, we had a fun day. And most of the Morrill family grownups went out to dinner that night, so we got to spend some quality time there. And our kids got to hang out with Aunt Nadine & co., which they really enjoyed. So all in all, a pretty good day.