Summer Fun Week #2

This past week was pretty busy but also really fun! On Tuesday, June 25, we went to CuriOdyssey up in San Mateo, CA. It's this little museum with several science-type hands on activities for the kids to do as well as a small zoo with some birds, snakes, frogs, bobcat and most fun of all...otters!! They were a riot and loved putting on a show for everyone, we even watched them eat their lunch!! The boys loved it. We met up with several other mom's and their kids from our ward as well as the other ward in Milpitas. There were a lot of us, which just made it that much more fun! Tyler only got lost like 3 times, the first time he got really lost and when I finally found him he was holding a nice lady's hand looking for me with a sad, tear stained face. My heart broke when I saw that face, and he wouldn't let me put him down for a good 5 minutes at least and after that he was a lot better at trying to stay with us. The other two times he was just standing behind bushes or something where I didn't have a great view of him. Let me tell ya, that place was fun but not very open or easy to keep watch over your kids, lots of trees, bushes, flowers, or some other obstruction.

This was the favorite station of the whole place! They played at it forever!

 Watching for the otters...this was pure coincidence that I got Parker smiling! I would tell them to look at the camera which they would but for only like 1 second!!!

 So playful! They did flips off the window, try to climb up the window and just swim all around...pretty cute!

 Watching the otters from a cave window looking under the water with their friend, Joshy.

 Another pure coincidence...he loved that little cave!

 This was inside, he and Parker are helping the balls travel around the track but turning levers, and wheels.

 If you spin the pedals fast enough it starts to play music!! 

 PVC Pipe Building...

 View from inside the building. It was right on the bay looking towards San Francisco! The weather was perfect, not hot at all, it even rained some. We will definitely have to come back and maybe even explore the rest of the park around the museum a little more. There are paths that go along the water and a big play ground also. Pretty fun and long day sure makes for some tired kiddos!!

 On Wednesday we just hung out at the pool for a couple hours, invited a couple friends over and just swam a little. Nothing too major, but pretty much the week is incomplete without some swimming in one form or another!! Thursday saw us at Lake Elizabeth park in Fremont, CA, where they mainly just played in the little creek walking around and throwing rocks...you know, every little boy's favorite activity!! They played a little bit on the playground, but it was just so hot that they didn't last very long. We met up with some of the other moms in the play group and had lunch also.

Friday was spent grocery shopping, relaxing and going to see Monster's University! It was really cute and the boys loved it too!! And then once again, we headed to Raging Waters on Saturday for a couple hours and then went out to eat at Texas Roadhouse...it's been too long since we've gone there and boy was it delicious!!