Vacation part two was a trio of Salt Lake City Adventures.
First up was the tour of Mrs. Cavanaugh's chocolate factory. This is one of those super cool things that you drive to another state and do a cheese factory tour (shout out to Oregon Coast vacation, amazing!), but sometimes miss things right near year house. It was fun to do the tour, see how they make the chocolates and try so many samples (and it only cost a $1 for the tour).
Next up was a tour of the governors mansion. Shantel loves architecture and we both love history and it was fun to see such an old mansion with such great history.
Last up was the Clarke Planetarium. We explored a little bit, but mostly went to see Panda's 3d. We were looking for something special to do and thought this would be a really great thing that is different from what we normally do and with how much the kids love Panda's, we thought it would be perfect. We loved it. The movie was really fun and made the kids laugh and was super cool to watch. The 3d still freaked the kids out a little and they had a little bit of a hard time wearing the glasses the whole time. I loved sitting back with a giant popcorn with the kids.
We also let the kids look at the gift shop to spend the money they have been saving from vacation, which turned out to be a challenge because they wanted more expensive things/could not decide. That was one of the few stressful things the whole vacation. Lydia ended up spending 1/2 of her money on a tiny Care Bear toy (not a great purchase) (Lydia wanted to spend 1/2 and save 1/2 for the zoo) and Austin ended up saving his money for the Zoo (he is definitely better at choosing things to buy that he really will enjoy). Right now, Lydia has a really hard time deciding between two things she really wants. It is good practice for her to figure out how to make choices like that.
Next up, our day at the Zoo.
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