Trip to Utah - Part 2 - Thanksgiving Point

On Saturday, we went to this area called Thanksgiving Point. It's got a few museums, an IMAX, farm and petting zoo and a few restaurants. We could have spent the whole weekend there exploring! But, we stopped off at a few of the attractions and the girls loved it!

We started out at the Museum of Ancient Life. There were so many dinosaur exhibits here! The girls were on overdrive, running from one room to the next checking everything out. There was even a room with sand that the girls could pretend to dig for fossils.

The best part of this museum was that we were there for a special Shark Day! They had a whole section with activities for the kids to do.

We were there just in time for the dissection of a dog shark. Yep. They were cutting up a dog shark. And they had plastic gloves the kids to wear, so it could be a hands on activity for them. Of course, Morgan jumped at the chance to do this. Avery stood back and watched for a few minutes, but was not that interested in seeing the insides of the shark. During the dissection, they found that the dog shark had been pregnant and pulled out a tiny little baby dog shark, which Morgan got to hold. Then, Morgan asked if she could touch it's eyeball. Yikes! Of course, they let her. She also got to see the teeth. She loved this!

Holding the baby shark

Touching the eyeball

 The next activity was more up Avery's alley - making necklaces out of shark teeth. And these were real shark teeth that were sharp. I was surprised they were letting the kids play with these!

Another activity was making a toy shark to take home. Avery decorated hers with glitter glue (of course!)

After this, we had lunch at a deli. Then, we headed to the Farm area. The girls got to pet quite a few animals, ride some ponies and take a ride around the farm on a wagon pulled by a tractor.

After the Farm, we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity. This place was amazing. I wish we could have spent more time here. I didn't get enough pictures! It started off with kid-sized doors - how fun is this!

Then, there was a massive climbing area with all sorts of different levels and a big slide to get you from the top all the way back to the bottom.

The girls are in the ropes
Matt and Richard are at the bottom left of the picture looking up
The girls are pretty high up in the air!

There was also a section called Kidopolis, that had a full city of kid-sized buildings. There was a movie theater, vet office, bank, house, laundromat, dance studio, art studio... and tons of other "places" for them to go in and play. The girls loved dressing up and putting on a show on the stage at the little theater.

There was a section with all kinds of water and air exhibits. The kids really liked the wind tunnel and standing in the 85 MPH winds!


Outside of the museum were some gardens and a large koi pond. We fed the fish and watched them go crazy!

The girls each picked out a souvenir to take home with us. No surprises here... Morgan picked a leopard and Avery picked a neon unicorn.

The girls were exhausted after all this fun! We spent the rest of the day hanging out at home. Grandpa let the girls run the model trains in the basement, another highlight of their trip.

And of course, after dinner we got more yummy ice cream treats!