October 7, 2009

Just keep swimming...

We are spending a few days in Belgrade MT, its about 10 miles from Bozeman, for some church convention meetings. While Coby is in meetings all day I have been taking the kids to great far off places such as museums, pools, and Target. In these three days of adventure we have been exploring the world we call "The City" we have seen Dinosaurs, and talked about how silly it was that the person who made the signs messed up and said "Billions of years ago". We ventured to the world of Target, and were reminded how nice it is to not be in "City Stores" around halloween. We watched a star show at the planetarium and giggled to ourselves as they said that the earth took billions of years to create and left when Justin looked at me and said "We were NEVER bugs?!?!" as a single celled organism flashed on the screen...I am still trying to figure out why in a star show that is 30 minutes long they spend at least 15 minutes talking about the "big bang" and "evolution". (We left when the "bug" thing happened and did not stay to see their "take" on Gods creation of our amazing solar system) We enjoyed fine dinning that did NOT include McDonald's, Pizza Hut, DQ, or Subway. I really enjoyed the WWII memorial that we walked through and being able to explain to Brittany and Justin just what was going on in the pictures, so many wide eyed questioning moments there. We enjoyed swimming in the pool (or 'lake' as our friends 2 year old calls it) Rebekah wanted to "paddle on the water" in the canoe that was in the lobby, it was just her size. When swimming Rebekah nearly drowned 19 times, after each time I would say "yup you scared me too" to that she would reply "nope I not scared. I'm swimming." Michael quickly overcame his fear of the water and tonight was even jumping off the ledge by himself into 3 feet of water without me standing there. Rebekah on the other hand was jumping in when I had my back turned and nearly drowned 19 times and was mad when I took her out. Any ideas on giving her a healthy fear of water? I am game for any!! We have had so much fun in the "true" City. I am no longer letting my kids call Kalispell a city, we have new standards for a city and they are as follows...
1. Has an Old Navy
2. Has more than 10 "big chain" restaurant's
3. It takes more then 5 minutes to walk from one end of the mall to the other.
4. Have a museum that talks about "crazy evolution stuff" as Brittany would say.
So these are the requirements for a city. If you are not sure if you live in a city just look back and measure up to this scale, it really is very accurate.

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