Museum of Natural Curiosity

My original idea was that we would head to a corn maze for Monday afternoon, but none of them opened early enough to match our time frame so we headed to Thanksgiving Point in Lehi and went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity. It turned out to be a perfect place for four little people and the 7 big people chasing them around.  If you are looking for something to do with young grandchildren in Utah County, I would suggest it.  It was too cold to enjoy the Discovery Gardens but we had fun at the inside activities.

 Scott jumping to see how high he could jump at "Leap Frog."  I think it was about 18 inches,

Jena trying on some of the fabrics from the jungles.....

Scott squeezing to see if he could squeeze as hard as a python.  The answer is NO, but he did better than anyone else in our group.

 This is a water table with built-in seats.  Liam and Zander thought that was fun.....

 as did James.

Here Gary, Jena and I are standing in the hurricane tunnel with winds of over 85 miles per hour.  (Those weathermen who stand in those windy weather shots are nuts.  It is not comfortable when the wind is that hard.  Of course, the 34-40 miles per hour winds felt like the daily breezes I grew up with in Richland, Washington, and Amarillo, Texas.)

The Health clinic inside the "Kidotopolis" area.

Jena and Scott did a puppet show for us inside the theatre.

 Doing a line dance with Chantel, Jena, Scarlett, Liam with James and Zander crawling around.

The huge bubble machine.  Scarlett loved pulling it up and down and popping the bubbles.  Here she let Jena blow on it to make weird patterns.

When the y stepped on the round buttons with animal pictures on them, it made a loud noise like the animal.  They thought that was quite fun and spend some time running from spot to spot to ehar the noises.

One last look at the grandchildren enjoying their day at Thanksgiving Point---

James  (8 1/2 months)

 Liam (2 1/2 years old)

 Zander (almost 11 months)

Scarlett  (3 years and 3 months)

On the way out, we noticed the child-size door so Scarlett exited out that door.  Jena was just a bit too tall so we made her go out the regular door.

We all headed in different directions and our outing was done.  They all headed home and Jena, Gary and I headed to Provo to visit Ben and to drop Jena off at her apartment in time for her Halloween party.

One last fall picture from the parking lot at Thanksgiving Point.   Notice the colors of this tree--yellow, orange and red with a little bit of green still at the bottom.  It was quite beautiful to see.  The picture doesn't do it justice. Isn't nature amazing?