Our Trip to Michigan- Part 2

Michigan State-One morning we got to go visit Brian at Michigan State. It is a beautiful campus. We had to get some more of the green Michigan State birthday cake ice cream.

We also visited an awesome children's museum on campus.
(In the background you can see the blue playhouse-
after we looked inside the house Ava told me in an excited, relieved voice, "There's no witches in there!")

Owen got tricked pretty good at how to make some toads squirt water at him but when he learned the trick he thought it was pretty cool.

Hanging out & chillin- this was the biggest goal on our list of things we wanted to do. It was done very successfully.



Lansing Zoo- This was an awesome zoo that was just the right size with lots of cool animals.
Jollay Orchards- on Saturday we visited another orchard but this one had a Ferris Wheel, blow up houses, hay rides, a corn maze and a fishing pond.

The Ferris wheel. Ava loved it. She could hardly stop giggling.

We played hard until they closed and then we headed back home.

On the way home we drove into a little town and ate at a pretty sweet diner that was a lot of fun.

Extended Vacation- so on Sunday we got to enjoy going to stake conference and playing for a few hours before we had to take off. We said our goodbyes and headed to the airport. On the way we got backed up in traffic because of an awful wreck that delayed us about an hour. Once we got through that we rushed to the airport only to find out we'd missed the cutoff with baggage by 10 minutes. After over an hour of Matt "discussing" with different people how they couldn't charge us over $300 a ticket to switch our tickets, we finally got our tickets switched for the next morning- for free thank goodness. The kids handled it all very well- Owen even said instead of staying 10 nights (as he held up both his hands)

We get to stay 10 plus one more!"So we took a shuttle bus to a hotel near the airport. On the way Ava said to Matt, "I'm so excited Dad!"

In our room we ordered a pizza for dinner and watched tv while we ate it. Then early the next morning we loaded up again and made it home later that night.

Thanks again Brian & Lexie! We had a blast.