Sugar Sand Park

Friday was exciting just to me, because Sterling stuck around and helped me drop off the kids to school (it's going to be tricky when I have to drop off Ruthie and Will on M/W/F because of the distance and times they start) and we went to the Y together. Then he went to Home Depot and got boards to fix Will's bed, hung the last couple of picture frames I had finally decided to put up, tried to fix our Wii, and he updated a bunch of things on his computer. Then that night we played games with friends until probably way too late and had such a great time! It was fun to get to know some ward members better and of course, we love to play games! Also-Citadels was new for one of the couples and so they wanted to try it out. Since it is probably my favorite game--made the night great! (I lost miserably, but not as miserably as playing Dominion on Sunday night with our friends and Jeff got 106 and I got second place with FIFTY ONE---can you believe HOW MUCH HE WON BY?!!?!?!??!) 

Saturday morning we were sluggish getting going due to the late game night but I wanted to enjoy our weekend with Sterling as much as possible. We went to check out the Farmer's Market...which wasn't going on. Oops. So we decided to head to this Sugar Sand Park that I had had recommended. 

GUYS IT IS AMAZING!!!!! Four stories tall, a slide that goes from the very top to the bottom, an entire section made out like a train yard, a whole section of stairs made to be spaced apart like the planets and you can see how much you weigh on each of them, a nice splash pad in the middle of it all---I seriously felt like we took our kids to an amusement park. But for free. It was such a fun morning!

Yeah, that is part of the playground.

This was pretty fun. For free, you could input what game you wanted to play like an arcade game. Will is playing one here where you had to try and hit the buttons as they lit up red, and if you got them turning yellow you'd get less points. It was pretty exciting.

The sweet splash pad. You could go up and look through that guy's eyes. It was pretty sweet.

This slide was kind of slow, until they realized the benefit of getting super wet on the splash pad and THEN going down. Haha!

Sterling went through and read every single plaque. He's like that.

Making music!

The trainyard. Will was impressed.

Everything was so cool. Like this drivers seat had buttons that actually said all sorts of things when you pressed them.

These space stations had buttons that said all sorts of things too.

Can you spot a Molly?

Before we left, Sterling went to look around. This place was massive. Over 12 baseball fields, basketball courts, a few buildings, and an incredibly beautiful carousel (that only cost $1--but we saved it for another time). Sterling went to check out the science center and came back in awe, so we checked that out 'real quick'--which turned in to a couple of hours--before we left. I'll separate that to the next post so it's not quite so long. But it was such a great morning with the kids!