Wichita Wrap Up

Another morning at Grandma's house, a tea party breakfast for Owen!

I'm pretty sure it consisted of mostly cherry sours from the Nifty Nut House!

Once ready for the day, we headed to Exploration Place.  Cooper & Miles had stayed the night with G'ma Debbie, so they met us there.  Along with Derek's sister and her girls.

First things first, we checked out the shark exhibit. 

...I mentioned Cooper likes sharks? :)

They had a bin to dig in that had pieces of coral and shark teeth and all sorts of treasures.

And shark jaws!

Then it was off to the play area.

Miles found a chicken and took it into a tunnel with him.

With Wichita, being the air capitol of the world, there is a large aviation area with lot of simulators.

And games to play that replicate building airplanes.

The cockpits were the winner though.


One of our photos was shared by the Exploration Place Instagram page!

Next some of the kids experienced tornado-like winds.  Or: A breezy day in Kansas. :)

And at one point I had to drag Miles away from the window to move on, since he'd spotted fish in the water.

We got an education with the teeth game.

One more look at some fish.

And back to G'ma Debbie's where she picked us some produce from her garden! yay!

Then we went to say goodbyes at my parent's.  So we made a quick visit to the great grandparents living quarters.

Having G'ma close for quick hellos and visits is so great.

We planned to hit the road for home then, but the boys talked me into one more quick dip in the pool with Papa before our drive.

The fact that we have time to do ALL that, and drive home, ALL in one day is pretty fun!!