Out of World Start to 2011

On New Year's Day we decided to have a small family adventure. Adelle had gotten a few free tickets for a planetarium show that were due to expire the next day, so we decided to head to the planetarium downtown. First we watched a movie about black holes in the star theater. Lydia and Adelle seemed to enjoy it. Violet got restless near the end so we walked around the halls of the dark theater. After that we walked around and looked at the exhibits.

Lydia has really taken an interest to doing her hair and make up just so, especially when we are going out. She has a very light touch to her make up though so I have allowed her to wear it. Lydia and Violet are looking here at the large group of kids crowding around the ball contraption.

Adelle was right in the heart of the crowd. As we were driving to the planetarium she mentioned that she remembered a vacation where they had a wonderful, ball thing. To her astonishment she then realized that it wasn't a grand vacation we had taken in the past, but just a little, local stop in the Salt Lake Valley. She absolutely had to have a turn pulling the levers and making the balls go.

She also couldn't resist exploring the mars and moonscapes. I love this picture of her on Mars. She looks like she is straight out of an original Star Trek episode. At least she isn't wearing a red uniform.

Perhaps a future career choice for Violet, if there is a space program still someday. She enjoyed looking around and watching all the kids scurrying everywhere.

Lydia is now too cool to climb around the moon and mars, but she did let me take a picture of her lifting up a heavy rock.

Violet was quite fascinated with the neat rocks as well.

In fact she was so taken with them that she managed to wriggle her way out of her buckle and stand up in her stroller to grab this, heavy beauty.

We really did enjoy the planetarium. It is fun to see the girls get excited and learn about new things. We even strolled the narrow gift shop which for some reason also has a very large amount of Harry Potter items. I was tempted to buy a thing or two, but we were sensible and walked away empty handed.