Hacker Family Day of Fun

Stomach flu be damned, this family was going to have some fun!  We had big plans last weekend of heading out of town for a weekend of fun and friends, but those got spoiled when Wade woke up the day before we were suppossed to leave with the stomach flu.  We had some disappointed people in the house, so this weekend we decided to make up for it.  I named it, "Hacker Family Day of Fun" and boy was it a full day of fun!  And what better way to start out a day of fun ....

Yes, thats right, Donuts for breakfast.  I figured we were going to be eating crap all day anyway, why not start out all sugared up?!?  Ha. 

Our first destination was The City Museum.  http://www.citymuseum.org/  This is quite a crazy place.  It if filled with slides, tunnels, skate ramps to run up and down, a miniature train, ball pits and all other sorts of unique things.  Keira's favorite part was the 10 story twisty slide.  It was a long walk up, but a very fun ride down. 

Inside the mouth of a whale

Next to an elephant

There were dinosaurs!

Lots and lots of slides and places to climb.

Another slide .... This one was my favorite.  It was super fast!

Ropes to swing on.

There is also a large outdoor area that we didn't get to see as well as a rooftop part for climbing.  It was pretty nuts.  It is definitely great for wearing kids out, but what I didn't like was that there were lots of small tunnels and climbing areas the adults couldn't fit that they kids could sneak off into.  Very hard to keep track to the munchkins.  But we had fun and I counted this as my cross training workout for the week because of the amount of stairs we climbed!

Next we headed to Fitz's Rootbeer for Lunch.  http://www.fitzsrootbeer.com/  A restaurant where they bottle their own root beer.  The root beer was really good.  I let the girls have pop for the first time ever.  Both chose orange.  Mallory loved it, but I think Keira was a little disappointed.  She didn't drink much of hers.  I think she thought it was going to be great and then, not so much.  But she put on a great face.  Food was average ... burgers and wraps.  We did get to see the root beer being bottled, so that was cool and kept the kids attention for a bit.

Mallory with her Orange Pop, which she finished!

Keira with her Orange Pop ... Putting on a good face!

Mallory looking a little too happy to be shooting her sister!

Keira loving her grilled cheese, she would eat grilled cheese every day if I would let her!

Stay tuned tomorrow for more of Hacker Family Day of Fun ... we visited the Crown Candy Kitchen, Turtle Park, and the Top of the Arch!