Sunday, July 27, 2008

Fun on TRAX

We went to visit Aunt Cindy and Uncle Kyle in the "big city" (salt lake). Uncle David and Aunt Betsy and cousin Charlie were there too! We had a lot of fun while at their house...we ate yummy barbecue, tried superhero Popsicles and raspberry creamsicles, jumped on the 'love sac', watched "Brave Little Toaster" for the first (and probably last)time, and Tate POTCBFC, got to play with Charlie. They said "hey" to each other quite a bit and later on in the day Charlie tried to eat Tate's face (he was hungry).
After the BBQ we decided to go ride TRAX, one of Kyle's favorite things to do! Some parts of TRAX are free on Saturdays, so we went to the Library and took a tour of it and rode the glass elevators. The library is pretty cool and I would highly recommend checking it out if you are in SLC.
Anyway, the train comes every 15 minutes on Saturdays and for some reason we kept missing it. Kyle kept wanting to run to make it because he was so excited, but we had some kids slowing us down. So we ended up waiting on the platform outside the library for 15 minutes waiting for the next train to come. Now, this wouldn't have been too terribly bad but it was 100 degrees outside. We were all a little hot. But, the train did come and Kyle excitedly showed us how to push the button to open the door to get on. Sadly, Cindy and Kyle had to leave to travel down to Price for a wedding reception, so we had to wave goodbye to them after we got on.
Remy and Tate had so much fun on the train, their eyes got so big every time we took off after a stop. I think they especially loved it because they were in moving transportation without a car seat or seat belt. We enjoyed it because it was air conditioned.
Our plan was to get off at the "energy solutions arena" and then take the next train back to the library. So, when the arena stop came, we all jumped up and went for the door. We were looking around and all of us were saying "where is the button?" "you have to push a button" "i don't know where the button is!" "is that the button?" "no" .
By the time we realized we didn't know where the button was the train was starting off again. All of us were standing up and we all just about fell right over. Luckily, I was there to catch David, and we all got back to our seats. There was an old guy sitting by us and he showed us how to open the door.
We got off on the next stop and had the privilege of walking a couple of blocks back to the stop that we couldn't get off at before to catch the University Line back to the library! What fun!
We did stop at Burger King to rehydrate everyone and that brings us to Charlie being so hungry that he was trying to eat Tate.
We love our family!

4 comments:

Nat said...

Wow! So I guess it is worth a trip to the big city just for Trax! Who needs Lagoon!

Cindy said...

Hahaha! Sorry about your train adventures! Maybe we should have given you a tour of that too! I'm glad you guys enjoyed your time with us! We did too! We should do it again sometime. Maybe you can give us a tour of Saratoga Springs!

Betsy B said...

Yeah! I think, aside from the soaring heat, that was one of my funnest times in SLC! We got some pictures on our blog of the event if anyone is interested. I'm glad Tate's face is intact and rest assured we've discussed not eating other kids with Charlie and he said, "Hey!" I think that means we should all stay back a little until he graduates high school. Good times.

Becky said...

Sounds like some good fun. We didn't go camping and I tried calling. But oh well, it was quite an eventful Saturday for us as well. By the time it was 12, Cody was so tired he wouldn't wake up.