Okay...we had a much better night's sleep last night. No musical beds was played and I slept as well as could be expected with the "slurp, slurp, slurping" in my ear. Gavin still sucks his thumb when he sleeps.
We got right to it this morning by heading down swimming at 8 a.m. Given what I've eaten over the last few days, it's a good thing Captain Ahab wasn't around. I would have a harpoon stuck in me still. Thankfully, the pool was empty either because no sane person goes swimming that early, or they thought they were about to be attacked by a hairy amorphous blob and ran for their lives. Eventually, a lady did come in to swim, but Gavin quickly made friends with her. She is still wondering how an amorphous blob had such cute kids. The answer, of course, is thank heaven for Brandi's genes.
We then headed out shopping to Target. We love Target. We really miss Target. We had a Target about 1/2 mile from our place in Centerville, and loved shopping there. Now, we are stuck with Satan's empire (Wal-Mart) in Richfield. Anyway, we picked out a few things for the baby between trying to find our kids.
We grabbed lunch and rode up to Snow Canyon where we made a $5 donation "for the improvement and betterment of our state parks." I nearly lived in Snow Canyon when I was at Dixie going to school. I used to do a lot of rock climbing, believe it or not. There was no charge to use Snow Canyon back then. As near as I can tell, nothing has changed about Snow Canyon since then. I guess the $5 per vehicle charge must be getting used to improve things that you don't really see. Regardless, we paid the fee and took the kids out on the sand dunes to let them play. It was like playing inside a sand blaster. We easily could have removed paint and rust with the way the wind was blowing. We quickly got about 2 pounds of sand in each eye and headed back to the car.
Next up was a trip to Fiesta Fun to drive go-karts and bumper boats. I soon found myself shouting things like "rubbing is racing" and "take 'em on the high side, Cole"...bringing back memories of the movie "Days of Thunder". I drafted Brandi's uncle, who also had Gavin riding with him, and passed them to take the checkered flag. I'm not sure how I'll fit this trophy in my luggage to take home.
Our last adventure for today was dinner at Pirate Island Pizza. It's a themed restaurant made out to look like you're on a pirate ship. The kids had a blast, and we brought about 4 pounds of pizza back to the hotel with us. You just don't realize how big a 24" pizza is....even with Brandi's aunt and uncle joining us, we didn't even come close to finishing it.
Another day down.
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