down to the gateway

Yes, I'm just getting around to my summer posts. I'm a little slow. We got a 6 month pass to Discovery Gateway - the new children's museum in Salt Lake, so we went there several times this summer. It's a fun place - the kids love it. And Paul and I find ways to entertain ourselves, like sending each other inappropriate messages across the sky message thing, spelling naughty words on the magnet board, making an animated movie of action figures making out, etc. You know, acting like adults.

We had a little routine - first we get dinner:

Then play at the museum:

Isabel on the climbing wall

Cute Oliver

Paul started the tradition of giving plastic eggs from the pretend farm to random children. At first it was funny, but then it just got weird, and I wanted him to stop.

Paul and his egg

vyyiiiiiiit - Paul and his vyiiit creation

Definition of vyiiit: head cocked slightly to one side. The Vyiiit was born years ago, when we were looking at a school picture of our niece Megan. She had her head slightly cocked to one side, and Paul's sound effect for it was, "vyyiiiit." It's also the sound a smiley face makes when it turns right-side-up, while you're chatting on gmail.

Then we finish up the night getting dessert and peeing our pants:


Of course I mean playing in the Gateway fountain. And getting really, really wet.


Fun times!

The sound's not great on this video, but this is Paul discovering that his chair made a unique sound whenever he moved. He's kind of an expert in this sound.