Salt Lake Trip

The kids have never been to Salt Lake during Christmas, so we decided to take them so they could see the lights at Temple Square. I booked our room at the Holiday Inn Express that has a kid size water park in it and the kids LOVED it. We got there kind of late in the evening, so all we did that night was let the kids swim and then went back to the room and ordered pizza. 

The next day we went to the Living Planet Aquarium which I highly recommend.  It was the first time either one of us had been there and it was really neat!
Jaiden with the jellyfish

Octopus

Can't remember what that is...

Stingray

Tyrel touching it.  It's feels really slimy... yuck.

Shark

After the aquarium (and taking a drive to try and get the kids to take a nap... which didn't work)  we went to dinner at the Mayan.   Cool place to eat (not good food though... sorry but it wasn't)

One of the divers. I wish I would have got a picture of them jumping from the high places but I didn't.... 

We ended the evening with walking through Temple Square

The next day we came home but not without going to Cabelas and Smith & Edwards!  A side note, we make look happy and carefree in the above pic (except for Abby) but our trip was filled with tired kids, lots of people, and scary Utah driving... :)  We had fun but it was sure nice to get home to our small town with a small population and a two lane highway.