Day Off in Auburn

Brian had the day off today so we wanted to get out and do something fun with the kids. Mom and Dad are actually kind of tired of the zoo (surprised?) so that was out of the question. We headed to Auburn for the morning and had lots of fun.
Our first stop was at Bass Pro Shop. Patrick and Elizabeth loved all the stuffed animals on the walls, the airplane hanging from the ceiling, and the water fall and giant fish tank. Patrick led us all around the store exploring the "nature stuff". When we left Patrick asked if we could go back to the "nature trail store" again :)
Next stop was to Champions for Life for open gym time. Patrick was so proud to show Daddy all the neat stuff he could do there. The kids spent an hour and a half.....
....jumping, on the trampoline and in the bouncey bouncey house. Elizabeth mastered the rope ladder inside and got to go down the giant slide. She was very pleased with herself.

...tumbling, or at least trying to do what the older kids were doing.

.....being mischievous and trying to get into the older girls fort.

........RUNNING, on two feet and four!

.......swinging......

.....and even just lounging around.

I don't know who had more fun.... Pat and Sis or Mom and Dad. On our way home we stopped at Valentine's for some pizza...yum yum. You would think that after such an exciting morning we would all fall right down for our nap. Not so much. Oh well, still worth all the fun we had.