Showing posts with label Take a Trip Tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Take a Trip Tuesday. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

the crew heads to the zoo!

For this week's Take a Trip Tuesday, we had a visit to the Oregon Zoo on the schedule. Unfortunately Kim and her kids weren't able to join us since her kiddos were still feeling a little under the weather! However, I had invited my friend Ashley and her daughter Molly Scout to join us earlier in the week, so we still had a buddy and off we went! Both Ashley and I have a membership for the zoo, so we decided that it wasn't crucial we see every animal this time around. There will be many more zoo trips in the future, just as there has been in the past.

First stop was the Pacific Shores where we were able to see the sea lions swimming laps.


I love how massive these beings look up close. So amazing!

And then played peek-a-boo with the penguins!

Got a little silly with the polar bears...

{photo taken by Mikayla}
...where one of the polar bears was out cooling off and having some fun in the sun!

We took a break to watch the birds of flight show.

Austin and a desert iguana.

Cuties in the Serengeti...riding a jeep.

One more picture before calling it a day (with just a tad of a bribe!)

On our way out, Mikayla wanted to go see the bears. And, I was so glad we took the time to stop because the bears were being super entertaining. He might have a calling to be a part of the circus!

The Zoo Crew!
We had a great day...exhausting, but fun!
{notice that there is a little boy not quite having as much fun as the rest of us!}

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

more museum fun!

We had another fun day on our "Take a Trip Tuesday"!

My good friend Kim planned a summer full of field trips for Tuesdays and invited a handful of friends along to join her and her children when they can. We had to miss the first one to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science & Industry), but last week we went to the Portland Children's Museum. Today we headed down to Salem to visit the A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village. We were able to get in FREE again this week with the Cultural Pass from our local library. You can't beat free!

We decided to snap a picture of all of the kids on the giant chair out front right when we first got there, so they'd be all smiles. However, for some of them, the chair was a little too high, so we didn't exactly get all smiles! Austin freaked out a little when I tried to get him down and I thought to myself...great, how is he going to do in Disneyland?


This was taken right after the giant chair.
Austin got over his sadness really quickly...he loves dinosaurs!


First stop...

The Bubble Room!



Next stop...

The Oregon Room!



And then...

The Toy Inventors' Workshop


The Brazilian Rainforest Theater



The River Room


The Recollections Room


A Child's Trip to China



The "Go Figure!" Room


And finally...

The Village Grocery



The boys loved watching this turtle!

Fun times at the museum!
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After the museum we took a short walk to The Carousel at Riverfront Park.


The boys preferred sitting in an enclosed space.
But the girls enjoyed riding the horses!!
And then it was time to go home...


Another fun summer day with friends!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

children's museum with friends!

Last Tuesday the kids and I went to the Portland Children's Muesum (thanks to the FREE cultural pass from the library!) with some good friends of ours...the Caldwells. We had a great time and Kim and I let the kids take their sweet time enjoying each part of the museum while she and I chatted and snapped pictures.

So be prepared...

I took a lot of pictures!!


Twilight Trail
Building Bridgetown
The Pet Hospital

{Mikayla loved playing receptionist}
Grasshopper Grocery & Butterfly Bistro
Dig Pit
Water Works


There was still plenty left to see, but we decided to save it for another day...the kids were ready to call it a day!

 
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