Thursday, August 9, 2012

A Trip to Vernal

I was lucky enough to have time to drive and visit my sweet sister Whitney in Vernal.  We had a fabulous time catching up and letting the kids play.

The first day we arrived late in the afternoon and headed straight to the dinasour museum.  The kids enjoyed seeing the dinasours and bones, but mainly they loved climbing around in the play area and rearranging the cushions.  Good times!

On day two of the trip we headed to Dinasour National Park.  We enjoyed seeing the bones at the quarry and then headed to the river to let the kids splash and play.  I forgot Everett's cast cover, so I tied a grocery bag around his arm to help keep the splashes off the cast.  It only took Everett about 5 minutes to stumble and fall into the river.  The grocery bag helped, but the cast was still pretty wet - oops!  I should know better.  I'm pretty sure that I am going to be more excited than Everett when the cast comes off. 

Since the lake was a little to hard for Everett and his cast we packed up the kids and headed to the caves.  They had a great time running in and out of the cave and yelling different sayings into the canyon waiting for their echo to return.  Thank you so much Whitney for hosting us.  What a lovely home you have.

 My big sister asked if her son could tag along on the trip with us.  It was so fun to spend some quality time together. Sage checking out the fossils!

 Digging for bones.

 Lola and Ev.

 Playing on the cushions...they played here for nearly an hour. 

 Aaah...Dinasour!

 Taking a break at the museum.  This is the longest they all held still the whole trip!

 I'm sad this picture is blurry, but I'll post it because it's the only one of me and my sis!

 Sherm hangin out in the river!

    The cave and sandy goldfish!

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