Long Weekend in Iowa

With the boys on Fall Break, we decided to make a trip to Iowa. Joe flew in and met us there. The boys and I drove out after school on Thursday and arrived shortly before 3am. After a few hours of sleep, we started a busy long weekend. 

The boys' cousin, Olivia, was still on her fall break so we got to spend some time with her. Grandpa got out the Corvette and took the kids for some rides. 

On Saturday, Joe and I drove up to Ames to meet some friends for a football game. It was great weather and a great day for a game. 

It happened to be Cy the mascot's 60th birthday. Looking pretty good for 60. 

Our tailgating crew.

Iowa State pulled out a win against Toledo. It was fun to see them win in person. 

We made it over to Grandma and Grandpa Strutt's house to help celebrate Grandpa's birthday a few days early. Of course, the boys were up and down the ladder. Even Patrick.

And Daniel convinced Grandpa to "read" him a story, which usually ends up with Daniel telling Grandpa how the story is supposed to go while acting it out with cars.

Later in the week we made it over to the Science Museum and got to see their new dinosaur exhibit. It was really dark in by the dinosaurs.



This was pretty neat to see. It was spinning and bringing balls up and would push them down different paths into bowls where they would spin around and drop down to the bottom to start all over again.


We also stopped by the news room and played around with the green screen. We missed being on air by about ten minutes. The boys didn't want to wait that long.




Our final stop at the museum was the activity room. Daniel convinced Grandpa to help him build a rocket that you get to launch. That kept the big boys busy for quite a while.



Josh launching his rocket.

You could find Patrick at the Ball Wall. You got to put balls in lots of different areas and they would be pushed through tubes with air. He loved running around and picking up the balls. He was there for quite a while. It was pretty cute.


It was a fun filled weekend with family and friends. We made it home and spent the next few days recovering from the excitement. It was a good Fall Break for the boys.