Quick Grandma and Grandpa Visit–OMSI and Spaghetti Factory

For spring break this year, our plans weren’t as exciting as last year – but how can you top Disneyland?  We did have a few fun things planned during the week, but the boys (and me!) were especially excited to have Grandma and Grandpa Morris come for a quick visit to start the break off.  They stopped by on their way from Lincoln City out to Utah to visit Camille, Bryce, Becky, Nate, and family for their spring break.

They arrived Saturday afternoon, and we spent the afternoon with them at OMSI.  My mom has a membership to Science Works in Ashland, and her membership got almost all of us in for free.  It was a little crowded, but lots of fun!  There are so many great hands-on activities to do there.  They also had a great Lego exhibit with some pretty neat Lego statues.  My favorite was the one of the solar system, and Landon and Davis especially liked the crayons.

One of the favorite rooms of course was the ball room!   We spent awhile in there.  

   

Left – a big wheel you can put a ball in and spin it around to see where the ball will come out.  Right – a wall of tubes with air blowing that you can put a ball in a move the pieces around to move the ball.

   

Middle – James loved putting balls in this tube with Grandma, and then watching them all fall out on the floor.  I think he would have stayed there for hours doing that!

   

Grandpa and Landon figured out how to put the balls in a tube hooked up to an air blower, then let them all go at once. James thought this was even better, and he would laugh and jump up and down each time.

Another favorite area was the water area.  They had some fun boats you could experiment with.  The boys had fun trying them out and having some races.

 

With these boats, you could change the size of the windmill pieces in the back, and the wind it up with a rubber band to make it go.

 

James liked trying to see what was going on too!

 

Grandpa and Landon getting ready to have a boat race, and Grandma and Landon experimenting with a sail boat.

 

We also had fun building this arch.  We had to put all of the pieces together in a specific order or it wouldn’t stay up.  The boys liked it so much they wanted to build it twice!

 

After a great time at OMSI, we headed to Spaghetti Factory for dinner.  In typical Spaghetti Factory fashion, they told us it would be a 45 minute wait when it ended up only being ten minutes.  We were glad we didn’t have to wait too long!  We had a great dinner, and the boys loved it as always.

 

The restaurant was too crowded for me to get a great shot, but here is everyone enjoying their dinner, and a picture of Davis too.

Shane got a picture of me and the boys – not a great picture for anyone, but it shows that I was there.  :) 

Saturday night, Mom and Dad watched the boys while Shane and I went to see The Hunger Games.  It was really good!  It’s just too bad I didn’t make Shane read the book first!  Sunday, we relaxed and enjoyed having Mom and Dad here before they had to leave for Utah early Monday morning.  We’re glad they could come and visit!