COSI

There is a science museum (Columbus Ohio Science Institute, they call it COSI) here that is really cool. Of course it has been almost a month now since we took these pictures, but I just haven't gotten around to posting them. It was a really fun day, the kids love it there. There are a ton of pictures, sorry, but I loved them all.....

Tyler and Zach playing in the submarine

Future Doctors????

This was so funny, Tyler got this circle thing and carried it half way across the room, got the cart and struggled to finally get it on, the pushed it the rest of the way across the room to the helicopter. Don't ask my why, I guess it wanted to go for a ride or something. It was just cute and funny because it was almost as big as him. He sure is one determined little boy.


This is a pulley thing that you pull really hard on and you lift up that car in the background. Of course it was also lifting the kids off the ground, but it was neat.


This water part was a lot of fun. I loved how they had the little chair for Henry to sit it. He thought it was the neatest thing. That was until Tyler dumped a cup of water on his head. It was pretty funny and so dang cute!
Here are the kids (yeah, I know, you can only see Zach and Mike, but they were all there) waiting to get on a ride there. It would spin really fast and they stuck to the walls and then the floor dropped down while they just spun stuck to the wall. I can't believe that Alyssa and Tyler went on it too. Of course Mike was so sick afterwards, we just aren't as young as we used to be. Zach loved it and I was just really glad that I didn't go on it.


This was under the sea in a sunken ship, I loved it.
We had so much fun and there was so much stuff to do there. The kids keep asking when we are going to go back. Who knows, maybe this weekend.....

Funny sign

We saw this building on the way home from Kirtland and thought that it was way too funny not to share it. As you can tell, they had a fire, not being the funny part. But then we looked a little closer and saw what the restaurant motto was and we couldn't stop laughing....
This is no joke either, there is no editing or anything involved. Isn't that just way too funny!

Trip to Kirtland

A few Sundays ago we decided to take a drive up to Kirtland. There wasn't a whole lot there. But it was really neat seeing what was there. We also went and saw the Kirtland Temple, that was a little strange. It was just weird going inside and having no real spiritual feeling in there. It was almost a contentious feeling to me. I didn't really like it, but it was fun to see it. Who knows, maybe some day the LDS church will get it back.

This is a couple of replicas of the stands from the
Kirtland temple inside the mill.

Here is a picture outside the door of the school of the prophets where Joseph
Smith got the revelation about the Word of Wisdom.  It was really cool to go in this
room.  We could really feel the Spirit on the whole tour they took us on.

Here are a few of my cuties outside the mill.

Me and Henry outside some house that I can't remember what it was called.
It was used kind of like a hotel.

And here is the whole family in front of the Newel K. Whitney store where the Prophet Joseph Smith walked in and called Newel by name and said, "You have prayed me here, now what would you have me do?" It was really cool going in there, the door and stuff are all original. It was cool walking through the same door that the prophet had walked through. It was a nice little day trip. But I think next time we will make sure that the kids have had a nap before we go. They were a little crazy on the tour, but it was still really neat!