...it's pretty easy, you simply plan a trip to a location where you have the opportunity to do tons of outdoor, summer like, activities. Somewhere like the Spokane Riverfront Park (you know... carnival rides, feeding the ducks, gondola ride, IMAX, miniature golf, train ride, carousel, snow cones etc.). But the trick is to go do all those fun outdoor summertime activities on a day like this...
Snowing in April...What?? Seriously??
I totally did not anticipate this kind of weather. When planning for this little out of town day trip one of the first things I did was get online and check the weather. It read mid 50's with o% chance of precipitation. Hows that for a weatherman's accuracy!
The snow got a little cold, but was great for crowd control. We didn't see another family there all day. We had the whole park to ourselves.
Between my sister and I we had 9 kids at the park today so the weather ended up working in our favor in that we had no lines, a theater to ourselves, and the kids were able to run wild and free with no one else to worry about disturbing.
A few of today's highlights...
Riding the Gondola over the Spokane Falls
Taking the Train around Riverfront Park.
Feeding the Ducks... and Seagulls. The kids were impressed that the seagulls could catch bread in mid air.
Riding on the Carnival Rides, over and over until they were sick.
We went inside for a while to get warm and watch the IMAX movie. After the movie the kids played a few video games and went miniature golfing.
Our trip wouldn't have been complete without a visit to the big Red Wagon.
And who can forget the Garbage Goat. There is a button on a rock that you push which starts the suction/vacuum pressure in the goats mouth and then you can feed it your garbage or sticks or anything you want. The kids always have a lot of fun with this.
We visited the carousel several times today. The kids had a lot of fun on this ride because it goes really fast and you get to reach WAY out and try to grab rings as you're riding. They wanted to ride it again and again to try and get a larger number of rings each time. 
We had a blast in Spokane! Thanks for hanging with us Les!
The kids and I have been having lots of fun together this week during spring break. I love it when the kids are out of school. We get to decide our own schedule, and with school out, that means soccer, scouts, mutual, activity days, and piano is out for this week also. It has been sweet! We have mostly been staying close to home but find one extra fun thing to do each day. We have gone swimming at the Court Club, Gymnastics, Children's Museum, Library and then a picnic at the Park, and tomorrow is our movie theater day. Super fun hanging with the kids.
Happy Spring Break!
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Yeah, I feel like I totally missed out!!!
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