Post-Christmas Fun!

The weather has been crazy this Christmas! It snowed almost every day for a week or so leading up to Christmas. This made for a beautiful white Christmas but also put a damper on our traditional visit to Temple Square. Finally, the day after Christmas, the weather report was not too bad and we jumped in the car and headed out. We hit a bit of snow on the way up but it wasn't that bad and we got downtown safely enough. We went to the Clark Planetarium first. Skylar had received some tickets for entering the Reflections contest and we were able to go see Santa vs. the Snowman in 3D. It was not too shabby and actually had some Star Wars references that were pretty good. We enjoyed it and then went and looked around the Planetarium for awhile. This was Nick's dream come true. He loves planets! He is really into these toys called Planet Heroes, which I love because he totally knows all about the planets, their location to the sun, their attributes, etc. He had been begging to go for almost a year to go so I'm glad we were able to include it.

After the planetarium, we hopped on TRAX and headed over to Temple Square. This was our first time on TRAX and the kids totally thought it was awesome. Ben and I didn't think piling 4 kids and one stroller at lightning speed onto a train about to take off was that awesome, but it was a lot more convenient than finding a parking space near the temple! It was an adventure in itself!

Temple Square was beautiful, as usual, and we've discovered something. Going the day after Christmas is sooo much less crowded! We could actually get around easily!! This may be a new tradition!! We had a wonderful, although freezing, time as we always do, and it really made us concentrate on what this wonderful season is all about. It was especially good to go back to thinking about Christ's birth after all the crazy Christmas day presents and such!! A trip to temple square is one of my favorite traditions and I'm glad we were able to get it in this year!