We love summer. Not only is school out and the days are warmer (ok, much hotter!), but one of our favorite things about the summer is the fact that we get together with the cousins, aunts, and Nana and Papa to do a day trip somewhere once a week. We had a slow start the first few weeks to due to conflicts, so we just got together at Nana and Papas those weeks to play - although the kids had just as much fun doing that.
Finally, on the 19th of June, we headed out for our first day "trip." We had heard that in downtown Salt Lake, Radio Disney was hosting a "Disney Days" celebration. It sounded like fun and since almost all of the kids love anything disney, we decided to head down and check it out. We decided to ride Frontrunner (the commuter train) and Trax (the light rail system) to get to the Gallivan Center. The kids love riding the trains and had a blast riding them all.
Here's Zach with an "I Love You" sign - yeah, he's loving the ride.
Here are Hailey and Branson - those two are inseparable!
Tate absolutely loved the trains and had such a great time riding them - in fact, even 3 weeks later he's still talking about riding the trains.
Disney Days wasn't as exciting as we though it would be, but the kids had a blast. There were a dozen booths where they got a bunch of free stuff. The milk booth was by far my favorite - they gave the kids mustache stickers, cow signs, and some string cheese. They even got to take their picture with the cow there.
The Humana booth gave out sunglasses, hand sanitizer, chapstick, and stress balls. Tate is really into the color green, so he was thrilled with his green squishy ball.
There were a few other random booths where they got a book, backpack, and candy. But by far the favorite was the face painting booth. The kids were so excited to get their faces painted. Zach got a skull ...
and Hailey got a butterfly.
After leaving the Gallivan Center, we headed over to the Gateway (a shopping plaza) for lunch. Here we all are waiting for the Trax train to pick us up.
Once we finished with lunch, we rode Trax back to the train station to catch the Frontrunner train back to Bountiful. Tate was loving sitting with Nana and Papa on this cement wall - he really thought he was a big boy!
And here are some pictures of us riding Frontrunner home. The train has doubledecker cars, so the kids love to sit on the top level to see everything as we are going. Here's Ashton, Michelle, Kylie, and Libby.
Tate sat with Nana most of the way home - he kept saying cheese, then I see it, then oh, so cute. Funny boy!
Zach hung out with Papa.
And of course our two unseparable buddies were together.
We decided to take a few fun pictures while we were waiting for the train to leave.
We sure had a fun day - trains, prizes, and lunch - it doesn't get any better than that!
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