hydroelectricity!
Day 8 was a good one, a memorable one and a tiring one. So in honour of a long day the daily update will be a short story from the day and pictures.
So here is our story, after lunch the kids and Dad went to the Botanical Gardens in Des Moines. It was a hot day so we thought an indoor thingy would be nice, but of course indoor gardens like this are hot and steamy on a good day, and today was a hot one so it felt like a steam bath a bit.
But we still had fun looking around and Dad really liked the bonsai trees. We knew that at the end of hte garden was a water fall we could walk under and the hope was that it would be cooler in the shade and with some splashing water, and it didn’t disappoint.
As we were sitting enjoying the view behinde the waterfall when a young couple came up asking if we wanted them to take a picture of us, we had just finished our selfies and pictures so we declined but Dad offered to take a picture of them if they wanted. The fellas said sure as we walked out in front of the waterfall and he handed his phone to our daughter, and he said something quietly to her as he handed over his phone. He then asked if Dad would take a few pictures with his girlfriends phone. She said her phone didn’t take great pictures but she handed her phone over.
As Dad took photos and the oldest shot video the fella after a few seconds turned got down on his knee and proposed. The whole garden became quiet as the couple had a their moment. It was really amazing to be there and experience a little of the joy that they shared.
After we congratulated them and gave them back their phones we made our way out in the sweltering heat giggling how hot and sweaty they both must be after hugging and kissing, at this point the little guys says “Why were they kissing?”. Our daughter said that those two people are now engaged and are going to get married, and again the dude said “When did that happen, I didn’t see anything.” Turns out during the proposal he was off in a bush playing and missed the whole thing. Classic.
The kids, minus the short one, and Dad agreed that we should do something nice for the new couple so we went and adopted a plant for them at the botanical gardens and asked the staff to tell them on the way out and get their names to put on the little name tag beside the plant. This made the kids happy to do something nice for them, and the middle one said he hopes they come back on their anniversary to visit their plant. Love it.
Now pictures, bed and Wisconsin Dells tomorrow.
every kid had to sleep within 5 feet of Mom and Dad even though we had a pull out in the other room of the suite.
science centre fun.
he was confused as there was no yellow button to push.
360 hours of lego work to make that golden gate bridge.
pretty cool lego work.
they had to build a building that would then have to withstand the shake table earthquake.
paper rockets were made and tested, some even exploded into shredded paper.
and energy was generated, this was Dad’s favourite.
we got Mom at lunch and headed to this gem.
mountain dew was drank.
half of a barnyard was eaten by Mom.
dad ate a whole defibrillator. burger, bacon, pulled pork and brisket!
botanical gardens.
steamy hot jungle.
so moist in here!
super cool to be able to see them up close!
it was cool to see lots of frogs and tadpoles in the pond.
daddy and daughter went out for a walk and some late evening pizza.
