Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Another Day, Another Adventure!

Today started out bright and early. We even had to set the alarm clock during vacation!!! Again, we did not tell the boys where we would be heading for the day. But as we exited towards the public museum they were on to us! But little did they know that they would be experiencing their first IMAX movie. Wild Ocean was spectacular to see and even kept the 2 year old entertained with the humongous screen and loud music. After the movie ended Jacob told Brian that "that was the best movie I have ever seen!" We will definitely be going again! After the movie we headed into the public museum to see our favorite exhibits, which of course includes the butterfly exhibit.

Jacob was a pro at making friends with the butterflies.

We all took our chance at hoping a butterfly would hop onto our fingers.

Tyler was the man of the hour as four butterflies took hold of his hands!

Haley was quite happy with observing everybody butterflies.

She kept her hands pretty close to herself whenever we tried to give one to her :)

After the museum we headed out for lunch at a surprise restaurant. It's called The Safe-House but it's a secret agent cover restaurant so it goes by a different name on the outside. We figured that our super spy agent 7 year olds would love this! So, here is how you start your adventure...we found the door to the restaurant only to be all squished into a little room, with no door! Then a woman says "Welcome agents, do you know the password?" "Uhhh, no" we answered. Then, we had to prove that we weren't double agents so she said, "I will need you to form a circle and very loudly sing Ring a Round a Rosie." So we did and then a wall slide back and we walked down some stairs to the super spy agent restaurant. Cool stuff and the boys were VERY impressed! As we went to our table a family pointed at us and said "there's the one's that had to do Ring-a-Round A Rosie." Yep, you guessed it...we were on video camera upstairs and down in the restaurant you can watch everyone come in and do the same silly stuff!

After we ordered we went exploring. The kids loved the silly mirror.

This door said it was the "men's room" but Tyler soon found out that was a trick. There was all sorts of fun things like two-way mirror, secret camera, and to top it all off...a secret exit!

After all piling into a little room with a pay phone we put in a quarter to receive the secret exit code. After we punched it in a door slid open to a dark hallway, which all the boys made me go down first!

Here is the dark exit hallway exclusively for super spies!

Down another dark corridor....

And finally to the exit!

We had another fantastic day filled with family laughs.

2 comments:

Cole Twins said...

Oh Erin ~ It sounds like you guys had a fantastic time!! I have to tell you, I used to go to the Safe house all the time while I was going to college at UWM. I never thought of taking the kids there though. I am just have to do that.

Here is to a Happy New Year, my friend!!

NE GrMa said...

Wow - that's the most fun restaurant I've ever heard of!! You were all very brave secret agents ;-)