March Outing- Planets and Kites

James has been waiting and waiting for his turn to pick the family outing. He has been talking about what he was going to pick and where we were going for weeks. Due to scheduling though we had to keep pushing his outing back. Finally we found a Friday that the girls had off and that Christian was able to only work a half day. So we packed everyone up and headed out to the Planetarium. 

I remember going to the Hansen Planetarium as a girl. For one of my birthdays I got a pass and I made very good use of it. I remember going to the star shows and then looking at the displays. I miss the old planetarium and the displays but the kids love the interactive displays. 

We learned about....

Clouds

 Telescopes

 Matthew was just happy we figured out how to make his stroller sit up so he didn't have to lay down the whole time.

 We also learned about the Mars Space Rover

 And Mars itself. I am pretty sure the kids were channeling aliens then.

We were having so much fun we didn't want the outing to end. Off it was to kite flying. We stopped at a local store and found kites on sale for 50% off. I ended up getting the kites for $2.00 each- what a bargain!!

It was a lovely windy day and perfect for kite flying.

James was a pro flier with his Spiderman kite.

 He was such a good little flier but then his kite got eaten by the building and once rescued decided to go and get caught in the trees. We had some tears but then it was better.

Poor Eve lost her kite first. She decided to drag it on the ground and two dollar kites don't last too well when that happens. Pretty soon there was a tear up the middle and it was declared unflyable. She had fun though helping everyone else fly the kites and playing on the play ground.

Laine's was the one that had a hard time getting the kite up. She has a really long tail that kept wrapping around the string. Once she got it up we gave her some tips on kite flying. She was keeping up with the best of them. 

I know people throw about the phrase "perfect afternoon" often but this truly was a perfect afternoon. The sun was shining, the kids were laughing, and it was just relaxing. I wouldn't mind repeating it again and again and again.