Xactware at Thanksgiving Point

Our family (minus Gavin who is at Jamboree) were able to spend a fun-filled day at Thanksgiving Point for Greg's summer work party.  We had tickets to all the venues at Thanksgiving Point, movie passes and dinner at the Gardens (reserved all for Xactware).  It was such a fun day.
We started the day by taking in a movie, Monsters University.  It was fun to see all the people at the movie theater in their green Xactware t-shirts.  There were about 1700 people who attended the party, so quite a few people we saw that day had on the same t-shirts we did.
The movie was good.  Guard and I spend half the movie out walking the halls.  He ran into the boy's bathroom once (luckily he didn't get too far in because I had to go in after him).  And he reached over and stole popcorn from three people walking past us.  Luckily again, they were all very understanding and just laughed.
After the movie, we went to the dinosaur museum.  Since we have a pass to Thanksgiving Point, we didn't feel the need to rush to every venue and see everything.  We just took it easy.  Enoch had seen the Tinkering exhibit as part of one of his camps at Thanksgiving Point and he wanted to show the family.  It was really fun with a lot of hands on experiments.

 

 







After the Tinkering exhibit we went through the Dinosaur Museum.  Kate's favorite part is always going through the stars.  We did that about five times.  Again, we saw a lot of green shirts.  It's about darn near impossible to get track of Enoch in that place, but when 3/4 of the kids are wearing green shirts, I finally gave up.  Luckily, we all got out of the museum together even though Enoch was missing from our family for a good part of it.

 Since it was so crowded, we spent most of our time upstairs putting together the dinosaur fossil puzzle.  Guard loved getting the bones from the dirt and then putting them on the magnet wall.  Greg and the kids put the pieces together after Guard delivered them.

After the museum, we drove to the Gardens for dinner.  We spread our blanket by the Waterfall Amphitheater and stood in line for dinner.  Actually Greg, Enoch and Kate stood in line and I sat with Guard.  It took quite a while to get through the line because, again 1700 people are all trying to eat.  We had a yummy dinner of hamburgers and all the sides.  We went through a lot of lemonade and tried to stay cool in the 100 degree sun.  After dinner, we were entertained by comedian, Brian Hamilton.  Apparently he is famous, but since Greg and I don't keep up with that sort of thing, we hadn't heard of him.  He was very funny and family appropriate.  Greg and I laughed and the kids played in the background on the hill with friends they had made.  Guard had a great time playing with his cousin, Quincy, and his wife, Emily.  Quincy also works at Xactware.
It was a fun day to spend with our family.  We miss Greg's old company, Northwest Research, but we are so thankful that he works for such a great company now.