The Discovery Museum

Last Thursday we drove up to Salt Lake to go to the Discovery Museum at the Gateway. We met up with Megan, Mindy, Sara and all the Staker cousins. This time Aria was big enough to join in the fun. The kids loved playing with all the cool toys and contraptions.
There is this giant metal beehive when you first walk in the museum. The kids always get stuck there for quite some time because there are all these balls that you can put in different holes, tubes and mechanisms. Chase loved dumping the balls into this bucket that when you turned the handle it dropped the balls into this tube that had a pulley system that lifted the balls up into a tube and sent them across the beehive to anothe location.

Weston and Aria played together putting the balls in the holes and watching them go down the tubes. Hunter liked watching the balls go through all the different devices. I kept hearing, "Mom, Mom look at this!"

Michela and Aria were making some sweet music together. I love this picture of Aria, she was barely tall enough to see what she was whacking with the mallets.


The girls loved the construction zone. They were great at taking turns using the crane, unloading the bricks and constructing the buildings. Aria loved all the little cars around. The only problem is that she can get a little possesive and screams at any other kids who try to ride in "her" car.



Hunter loves playing with all the different contraptions in the water play area. It's fun to watch him tinkering with all of the different parts trying to get it to work exactly how it wants it to.

Michela and Chase loved climbing the rock wall.

Jaida helped Aria ring up her purchases at the little store. Aria was in heaven pushing all the buttons on the cash register. She was so cute walking around pulling things off the shelves and putting them in her basket. Michela and Alyssa were starving so they helped themselves to the fixings at the deli.

Michela couldn't wait to dig in to her super sized sandwich.

Hunter spent almost the entire time upstairs at the wind tunnels. He loved sending the papers and cups soaring up in the air through the tunnel. It was so fun to watch him, you could practically see the wheels turning in his head as he figured out which one would fly the highest. Trevan loved the building toys, here he is working on one of his creations.

Daynen plays with a puzzle while Michela tests her building skills on the earthquake machine.



There was this cool magnetic wall that had all these pipes you could move around and connect to try to make a path for the balls to go through. Kaden and Michela were cheering when their ball made it all the way through. Chase had fun connecting the pipes all the way across the wall.




After the museum Sara and I took our kids over to the fountain, unfortunately my battery died so I didn't get any pictures. The kids had so much fun running through the water and getting completely soaked. I kept bringing Aria close to the water to get cooled off, but she didn't really like getting sprayed. After that we took a trip over to the Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop for a little treat. What a sweet way to end the day.