Tuesday we had reservations to stay in Bountiful, so on our way there we stopped in Murray to see Rob's uncle Ron. We hadn't seen him for many years, and had a great visit with him. Rob had told the boys that Ron used to show him magic tricks when he was a kid. While we were there, Ethan asked him to show him a trick. Ron left the room and came back with a wooden box and told Ethan to open it. When he pulled the door open a big rubber spider came out with it. Ethan jumped back and let out a pretty good yell. It was awesome.
After our visit, we went over to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. There are around 500 bison on the island. We saw a huge group of them on our way over to the ranch.
The ranch was really neat. There was an area where you could practice roping some cattle. All Rob roped was Ethan, and he didn't think it was very funny!
They also had a lot of old ranching tools on display. Rob grabbed a giant pair of pliers and jokingly told Porter to stick out his tongue, and he actually did, crazy kid!!
On our way off the island, we stopped at an artistic display of a buffalo. When the kids realized they couldn't climb on it they thought they should pick its nose instead. The joy of boys, right?!
We met up with Rob's great uncle Dennis for dinner. We hadn't seen him in a very long time either. After dinner we went back to hang out at his house. The boys loved calling him "Gruncle Dennis" and bonded with him right away. He still had the same games for the kids to play with that Rob remembered from when he was young. He even gave the boys a bag of marbles to take home. I tried to get a nice picture of the boys with Dennis, but soon remembered that I was a mom of all boys and that it's near impossible to get them all smiling at once. Sometimes boys just need to make funny faces!
Wednesday we drove over to temple square.
We toured the beehive house, and saw the Joseph Smith movie at the Joseph Smith memorial building. We spent some time letting the boys explore the grounds. Porter was facinated by all the fountains and water features.
Ethan stole Rob's hat and looked pretty cute in it.
We got to tour the conference center too. A sweet lady took us around showing all kinds of cool stuff. We got to a room with busts of all the prophets. I figured I should get a picture of my "Snow" boys with their ancestor, Lorenzo Snow.
After the tour we grabbed some dinner and went back to the hotel to swim to finish off the night.
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