Best of Utah: Discovery Gateway SLC

    

      This.  This was awesome!  Lance and I used those lovely attraction passes we purchased a couple months back to visit the Discovery Gateway Museum in Salt Lake City.  We walked in and then quickly decided to come back another day, but this time, with this little guy in tow! Definitely the right choice, because oh my did he have a blast!  It was fun for Lance and I to get to go take him to do something fun.  I remember being a kid when my aunts and uncles took me to do fun things, and those are some of my fondest memories. 

     There were so many fun things to do, it was pretty funny to watch as Cameron stood wide eyed not sure what to do next.  I would definitely recommend this museum to anyone with kiddos, of just about any age. They had a fun area for kiddos under two, a play play area for those were just a little older, and a place for the older kids to learn and play as well.  Just look at this little cutie in his indoor tree house!

     With how many different fun things there were, and with how much fun Cameron was having with it all, I am sure we could have easily spent at least fifty percent of our time just at this stop if we had really wanted to.  There were baskets for the kiddos to fill with the colored balls and all sorts of fun things to do with them, like watching them float in the air above tubes blowing out air, and tubes that would suck them up and pull them all over through more tubes across the ceiling before dumping them back into a ball pit. It was fun to watch Cameron figure out where the balls were going, and enjoying putting the balls through the different tube courses provided.  

     I have to laugh at my husband also taking pictures in the background.  He's so good to be on top of it like that.  This, I am positive, was by far Cameron's favorite.  He LOVES his

construction zones!  Anything dirt, diggers, and scoops, he is all over it!  The whole way there, he pointed out every crane in sight, so to then come to the museum and jump on one of his very own was I am sure the highlight of the whole trip.  It was neat, because there were blocks everywhere, complete with a wall outlined with different things to build.  All of the kiddos were having a blast. 

     The next stop was the play house, which included a mail box, a kitchen, a nursery, and a reading nook.  Of course, the first book he found was all about trucks.  More specifically, work trucks!

     Next stop, water!!  I was very impressed with how clean, and

dry  the area was, despite all the water toys everywhere.  There were plenty of little kiddos playing at the water display, so it was not due to any lack of interest. The whole place was very well kept, and things seemed to stay in their designated areas about 99 percent of the time.  Certainly can't complain there! 

     We finished off the bottom floor with car fixing, sandwich making, farming, and horse riding before heading up to the second floor for more fun.  The second floor was definitely meant for a slightly older crowd, but Cameron still had a blast.  We didn't take as many pictures at this station, as Cameron wasn't quite as interested in the building of the car, as he was in sending it down the track, or rather throwing it down the track and off to the side.  His car never did make it the whole way down. 

     

     One of the last stops was the life flight helicopter pad, complete

with a helicopter, a communication station, and a hospital with

stretchers and digital surgery tools.  After a whole three hours, it was finally time to go home.  I wish I could say Cameron was the only one to pass out the minute he got his seat belt on, but I didn't last more the ten minutes. Shout out to my sweet husband for letting me sleep and driving the whole way home.  I think I married a good one guys.  










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