Kelli and Dana's Visit

My younger sister Kelli and her husband Dana came through town this week on their move from Texas to Washington State and we were lucky enough to be able to keep them for a few days. We'd really keep them forever but alas, Dana has a job and they need to move on.
Tuesday morning it was raining so we had to find something indoors. I searched online and found the Church History Museum downtown which I've actually never been to before nor had they so off we went. Let me just say if you've never been before you MUST go. They have just about every famous artifact from LDS church history that exits. They have John Taylor's pocket watch with the bullet hole in it, Joseph and Hyrum's death masks, real covered wagons, and keepsakes from each of the prophets lives. They also have a huge kids section where of course we spent a lot of time since Isaac's idea of a museum is to run-not walk and to either touch everything or climb on it.
They even have little old missionaries there to do crafts with your kids. So Isaac made a hand shaped dog.
Dana went with a green elephant. He assures me it's an elephant since I'm very confused.
And Isaac spent a lot of time throwing bean bags to decide which "kingdom" he'll go to. Tragically he's leaning towards the "telestial" but I'm blaming that on the larger hole.
And he and Dana built some amazing block temples. For a 2 year old he has some very steady hands.
Tuesday afternoon, since it was still raining and I couldn't think of anywhere else to take them, we brought out Guitar Hero. At first Kelli protested that she didn't think she'd like it or be any good but of course she turned out to be the real rocker in the family and beat everyone hands down.
Ethan's not quite old enough to be able to play the game so he brought out his fake red guitar so he could join in on the jammin' with Dana.
And Miles couldn't resist jumping in on the vocals. Actually this is how excited he got when I gave him the microphone as a chew toy. Luckily I caught the picture when I did because 3 seconds later he had that thing in his mouth and wouldn't let go.
Tragically for Miles, Ethan decided that he NEEDED the microphone so he could sing along (love his arm by the way). Miles is no dummy though so he decided to get back by rolling over and over until he could get at the cord plugging the guitar into the X-Box and pulled it apart so he could chew on it thus interrupting the jam session. Good times were had by all and Dana was caught several times later that night and the next day sneaking down to play more songs. Kelli promised to get him one if he passes the BAR this summer.
No rain Wednesday- yeah! So we headed off to the zoo which was Kelli's one request for the visit. A brief stop to see the baby elephant.
And a brief stop to let the boys climb on the statues since apparently that's more fun that the animal-watching.
And we were lucky enough to hit the penguins at feeding time so we got to see them waddle around, eat, and even swim to get the fish thrown in by the trainer.
We were so sad to see them go (especially Ethan who adopted Dana as his buddy) but we're glad they're just a 10 hour drive away instead of 16.