Family Day in SLC

I entered a giveaway on my favorite hair blog and won some passes to Disney on Ice. The prize was four tickets, but I thought we could buy a couple more and go as a family. Nate and Ben were not big fans of that plan. I guess Disney on Ice isn’t so cool for males over the age of ten. I was fine with not shelling out an extra fifty bucks, but I still wanted to make it a family day. So, I came up with Plan B. We drove down together and Nate and Ben spent a couple of hours at the planetarium while I took the girls to the ice show. We all had a great time. The girls loved seeing all of the Disney characters (although they were a little bitter that Aurora wasn’t in this show) and were quite impressed with the special effects and cool skating moves. The little girl sitting behind us added to the fun. She was a complete crack up. She was only about three or four, but she was belting out the songs and yelling things out to the characters on the ice all through the show. Emily thought it was hilarious. I liked the second half of the show better than the first half because I worked up the courage to ask the guy sitting in front of to take off his big Mickey Mouse hat. (I’m non-confrontational in general and the tattoos on his neck and arms kind of intimidated me.) It was nice to be able to see the show without those big red ears in the way. I’m glad I was brave.




The boys had fun at the planetarium (Ben more than Nate). They watched a movie in the domed theater. Ben thought it was awesome. Nate was less than impressed with the subpar script and special effects. For the rest of the time, Nate wandered around reading all of the displays while Ben hung out at the Newton’s Daydream exhibit. He couldn’t get enough of it.



We all met up afterwards and went to Costa Vida for dinner. The kids had each gotten a card for a free kids’ meal from school and I had a gift card, so we got out of there for $3.75. Sweet. I love basically free family fun days.