Normally we do a nice Fall Break trip. This year, we spent two days in Ogden. Why Ogden, you ask? Well, we are often asked, through social media, why we have so little information on our website about Ogden. So, we decided to do a business trip.
On Wednesday, we took off right before lunch. We reminded ourselves that this was a business trip, and we planned accordingly. Our first stop was a park. Our second stop was also a small park. Since parks are a popular landing spot on our website, our third stop was a park where we made lunch. Then we stopped at our fourth and final park.
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| We visited some fun parks. |
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| Dad and Seth have a lot of fun. |
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| Another park |
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| Seth is a good sport to check them all out for the blog. |
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| This park was super fun! |
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| We liked the bright colors at this one. |
We had another fun stop at a pumpkin patch called Pack Farms. This one was a business stop, but we had a lot of fun. First, we played a lot of games. There were jumbo games like Jenga, Connect Four, and ball drop. We also played tetherball and did some of the slides. There was even a little hay bale maze. The boys enjoyed the massive tubes that you stand in and roll down the track. Things really went pretty well until Dad bottomed out in the mud on the zipline and Dax skated down the roller slide all the way to the bottom before falling down on his backside. Then Seth fell off the zipline and we were all pretty muddy. The tractor ride was the highlight, though. We were in barrel cars behind the tractor, and the driver really took us for a ride. It was bumpy and spinny and very fast. We laughed the entire way!
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| Random duck |
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| We got a little wet and muddy. |
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| This tractor barrel ride was a blast. |
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| The boys laughed a bunch. |
Next we stopped at a really strange place called Gandy's. We'd heard this was an ice cream shop, so we were surprised when we walked in the door and heard live music. A lady was playing guitar up front even though it was only 2 pm. There were tables with puzzles, walls lined with books, an open stage area, and tables for lunch and ice cream. We grabbed a few exotic flavors and talked to the owner for quite awhile. It seemed like a great place for a community to gather, but you never see places like that anymore.
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| Gandy's was a unique place. |
After checking into the hotel, we settled and watched a bit of TV. Then we went to dinner. The restaurant was a steakhouse, and the interior was full of covered wagons. Each table was set in a wagon along the wall, and in the middle were all kinds of desert and forest animals, just like in Cabela's. The food wasn't really that great (we liked the fried mushrooms), but it was different than anyplace we'd been before.
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| Temple view from our hotel room. |
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| Heading into our dinner spot. |
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| Eating in a covered wagon was interesting. |
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| The food was okay, but we love the atmosphere. |
It was dark when we finally headed up to the Ogden Dinosaur Park. They invited us to come to their spook night, and since we love this place, we decided to go. We listened to some (sort of) spooky stories, and then ventured among the dinosaurs. There was a spooky trail, and Mom and the boys were a little nervous to venture down it. They needn't have been, as a few kids and teens jumped out and said "Boo!" three or four times. We actually walked it twice, laughing a bit the second time, as they were much less nervous.
Back at the hotel, we finished our movie. Then we packed in early. We had planned a big day of "business" for Friday, too!
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| Watch out for Seth! |
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| We had fun at the Dinosaurs after Dark. |
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| Family pic |
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| Great view at night, too! |
