Thanksgiving Point

 On Saturday morning, I ran in a 5K race at Thanksgiving Point with my friend, Rachel. I was really excited about this race because they advertised that the course went through the gardens at Thanksgiving Point during the peak of the Tulip Festival. I thought it would be a beautiful run. I was wrong. First of all, the temperature at race time was in the high 30's. Really disappointing after the summer like days we had earlier in the week. Second, there was probably only a quarter of a mile of the race that actually went through the gardens. The rest of the race was on the streets surrounding Thanksgiving Point. Third, part of the course was a long stretch of road RIGHT NEXT TO THE INTERSTATE!!! I hate running next to busy roads. Now that I got all of the negatives out, there were a few positives. I finished the race at 31:10. I was pretty pleased with my time. It was better than I thought it would be. In our goody bag, they gave us passes to everything at Thanksgiving Point that day. I had originally planned to take the girls and just pay for the extra person. However, Rachel had blisters on her feet and didn't feel up to walking around Thanksgiving Point that day, so she offered her passes to me. I then offered to take her 4 year old son with us. We had a lot of fun. We started in Farm Country. The kids got to ride on a pony...

 pet some baby and grown up animals...

 take a tractor hayride...

 play in the playhouses(this one was a jail, if you couldn't tell)...

 ride on sheep and bulls...

 and take a ride on the cow train.

After Farm Country we headed up to the Museum of Ancient life. As I was checking in at the front desk, we discovered that Ashley was no longer wearing her wristband and therefore couldn't get into anything else without us having to pay for her. I was pretty bugged that the lady wouldn't let her in when she was obviously with us and there were only 4 of us (the wristbands came in twos). Plus, she could tell from my face and my reaction that Ashley had one, it just wasn't on her wrist anymore. I stormed out of there as best I could and we got in the car and went home. The kids were pretty tired anyways. I didn't realize that Thanksgiving Point had so much to offer. I only wish that I had started in the Dinosaur museum and then went to farm country because the kids were all so excited about seeing the Dinosaurs and therefore, really dissappointed when they didn't get to go inside.