Our sweet friend Annalisa which we met over 5 years ago through Dance Marathon also lives there. We set up a night to meet up with her and go out to dinner. I found a restaurant called The Safe House. It's a spy themed restaurant and I remembered seeing it on a show years ago. Since Ammon is so into spies right now we thought this would be the perfect spot to go to dinner.
The front door to the restaurant is down a very boring looking alley. When you walk into the room there's a desk and a wall with bookshelves. There was also a camera looking down at you. We figured out pretty quickly what that we needed to pull on a certain level on the wall to walk through the bookcase wall and into the actual restaurant.
What I didn't realize was that if you didn't make reservations that you had to wait a long time to get a table. While we were waiting we went on a scavenger hunt of the building. The kids went into the secret phone booth, we found a piece of the Berlin wall, a door leading to a bathroom that was really just a brick wall, spy holes, hidden cameras, moving walls and more.
The food was ok, but nothing to brag about. After we ate we used the last clue on the scavenger hunt and exited through the secret door. To use this exit you go into a very small enclosed hallway and put a quarter into the pay phone. You hear the instructions to push certain numbers on the phone, and then the wall opens to a staircase leading down. We went down and found a hallway leading out to the alleyway behind the restaurant.
The kids Ok all of us thought this restaurant was so much fun!!
Thanksgiving day Johann and Simeon went and played flag football with Jake's ward. The other kids and i went to the park with their cousins. We spent the rest of the day hanging out at home eating and playing.
Friday we went to the Natural History Museum. The favorite spot was the butterfly garden. At first no one was able to get any butterflies to land on them. Rebecca didn't want any to land on her, she was ok with watching them from a distance. The other kids were trying to get them to land on them. Jonas kept getting the same one to land on his shirt. It was either the bright colors or the syrup from breakfast!
After we went to a small indoor waterpark at the hotel that Grandma and Grandpa were staying at. There was a slide and a deep end with a basketball hoop. The boys practice snorkeling with our new snorkeling gear.
Saturday we left and went to Madison to go to a Children's museum a friend had told me about. There was a really neat younger kids area with a huge climbing tree area and a water house. Rebecca really enjoyed playing in the water house.
Upstairs they had lots of areas to build with blocks and a huge art area. The highlights of the day were the gerbil wheel (Corrine and mom got it going fast-it's a great workout), Ammon climbing in the climbing structure, and the window painting in the art area.
We had a fun time on our Thanksgiving weekend away.
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