Where were you on 2.22.22?

At 2:22 on Tuesday 2/22/22 I was at home with James. He had a friend over and they were building guns and targets with PVC

His friend is Henry which makes it a little confusing. He's refereed to as "friend Henry" or "Henry my friend"

Here's a screenshot of my phone at the time.

I was getting a pot of carnitas ready for the oven.

It's been like a month since my kids have had a full week of school. Today we took a train ride to SLC with my sisters and their kids. This was the first time my 3 younger kids had been on Frontrunner and the first time Erica and James had been on trax.

They thought the train ride was fun but long. We went to the planetarium at the Gateway. We watched this pendulum swing forever.

It was strangely soothing and then so exciting when it knocked down a pin.

We had never been to the planetarium so it was fun to see. I wouldn't spend money on it so good thing it was free.

Green screens are always a fun time.

This was my favorite exhibit. It showed how ice freezes. This is looking at a freezing sheet of ice through a lens.

But this is what it looked like not through the lens. Watching ice freeze is so cool.

From there we took trax to City Creek and ate lunch in the foodcourt. My kids were boring and got chickfila but oh well. Henry spent a ridiculous time running and trying to grab ahold of this thing in the paly area. He finally did it.

We saw my niece Bella there who was downtown playing at Abravenall Hall with her high school band. What are the chances? So fun.

From there we went to the Joseph Smith Memorial building because we were hoping to see from the observation window but it was closed to visitors because of renovations. We took a lap around the lobby then left out the revolving door.

Then we rode trax and the train back and got home just in time to get Erica to gymnastics.

It was great to get out the valley and spend time with family. These kids are so funny.