Children's Discovery Museum in Salt Lake City

Last week we decided to have a family fun day together, so we started out window shopping at IKEA. Then we drove to Salt Lake City and had lunch at Tucanos. It was a beautiful day outside...the restaurant actually had their windows open and we got to sit by the window and enjoy the sunshine while we ate. After lunch, we walked over to the Children's Discovery Museum. The kids had so much fun. I know there are a lot of pictures here, but it was just one of those fun days where you end up taking a lot of pictures. I accidentally left my camera in the car in the parking garage, so instead of walking all that way back to get it, we used Jason's phone to take pictures instead...I think it actually took decent pictures.
This first picture is of a helicopter they have outside for the kids to sit in and play in. It makes real helicopter noises when you push the buttons and move the stick to "drive" it.





Inside, they had a news room where you could sit and read the teleprompter and have your picture show up on the cameras.
Here's Gavin's turn.

Here's Connor's turn.

Aidan loved the huge building blocks. With Daddy's help, he built it really tall and then knocked it over and laughed hysterically...typical for a two-year-old!

This is one of those things that has a fan at the bottom and you try to shape the papers so they'll "float" up and over the top of the glass...always a favorite for these boys.


This was on the third level of the Discovery Museum where you could send flags with messages on them back and forth across a rope. There's Jason all the way on the other side with Gavin.

Here's Connor sending a flag with a message on it over to them.

Here's Aidan making the balls "pop" in the air.

This was one of the kids' all time favorite things at the museum. You'd gather up these balls and then send them up the tubes and watch them suction up and around tubes and land back in another pile.
Here's Connor gathering up some balls.

Time to send them up.

Aidan really loved that part!

Up they go!

So much fun!

Water play!

Building time. This area was a big hit too.


Time to dig for some "artifacts" in the Utah sands.

This was our last stop at the museum and we had a hard time tearing the kids away from this fun "sand" box (I think it was actually some sort of foam made to look like little rocks). We tried to dust them off the best we could, but they all ended up with sand in places you don't want to get sand!