We went on a pretty awesome adventure today. When we talked about the options for the many things that we COULD do while Mom, Tiffany and Wendy were here, and I mentioned the Norman Rockwell scouting exhibit at the Church History Museum, Mom blurted out that she would DEFINITELY want to go to that. So that became the plan for today, but I HATE driving around downtown Salt Lake and I HATE trying to find parking even more, so we decided to take the train to Salt Lake!
Lydia was so cute “reading” the train schedule.
We got off at the North Salt Lake stop and then we got to do some walking.
The Church History Museum and Temple Square aren’t really very far from the train station, so it didn’t take us long to make the walk. I am SO excited that I got to go see the exhibit celebrating 100 years of scouting in the church. I am very much into scouting and I like to push Ethan to achieve more within scouting. I am just sad that Kyle couldn’t come with us to the exhibit.
We went inside and started wandering around to find the scout art.
Before we found the scout paintings we found another exhibit of art depicting children.
The kids found a computer screen/graphic tablet type thing where they got to draw for a bit.
Then we went around the corner and that’s where we found the scouting exhibit.
I tried to take pictures of every painting, so Kyle could see them too, but that means I didn’t get many pictures of my kids looking at the art. I did NOT take pictures of every cover of the Boys Life Magazine though. 😛
In the room next to where all the paintings were, there was a room of a more hands on exhibit.
This quilt was like an “I Spy” under it there was a list of things to look at the quilt and find.
These pictures had levers at the bottom. If the lever was all the way to the right, you saw one picture but then moving the lever to the left flipped the panels around to reveal another picture.
There were stations for knot tying.
Then at the very end of the room, after watching a brief video about Lord Baden-Powell and why he started the boy scouts, the kids got to design a neckerchief on a triangle piece of construction paper.
After leaving the Church History Museum we decided to go eat lunch at the Crown Burger that we saw on our way from the train stop to the museum.
Once everyone was finished eating, we split up. Wendy walked up the street to go to the LDS Business college to meet up with John, and Tiffany, Mom and I took the kids back to the train station to come back home. I think everyone enjoyed the trip and I only wish that Kyle could have been there with us, but alas, he had to work.