Day 4: Focus on the Family.... and lots of driving

On Day 4, we visited Focus on the Family. It really is an amazing facility. Just beautiful- and, of course, very family friendly! I could have spent hours in the bookstore- but had to settle for 4 minutes here - TRADE- 4 minutes there- TRADE, back and forth with Mike doing "Where's Ariana" duty. She only broke one thing in the whole store- a book mark.... not too $$, thank goodness.

Alex begged me to take a picture of him and Ariana holding hands. He loves to hold her hand... when he's not yelling, "NO, Ariana!" with clenched jaw and shoving her away from his stuff. Here they are in one of his loving moments....




This was a fun little toddler area for kids 5 and under to roam on soft play structures. I was secretly wishing (out loud) that we lived close by so I could take the kids here once a week for something to do. Did I mention that all of the activities and facilities are free of charge?





A fun soda fountain shop, just like the one they have in Adventures in Odyssey. We got the kids ice cream. Even though it was only 10 a.m. And, trust me, Alex was not sad - as he appears in this picture. He enjoyed his ice cream very much.




But not as much as this little one who, as the baby, is usually deprived of such treats from an over-protective Mom who tries to keep the babies on "healthy food only" diets as long as I can before Dad corrupts them with treats...

This exhibit was SO cool.... The Chronicles of Narnia room. It had a wardrobe chest that you could step into. Here are the kids going in the wardrobe...

And here is Alex and Grace in "Narnia" after they had walked into the wardrobe...



Everything in Focus is fun and interesting and just beautifully decorated- even the staircase leading upstairs....

After Focus on the Family, we drove 70 miles northwest up to Broomfield (just outside Boulder) we stayed the night there before we woke up early the next morning to drive to Estes. Tomorrow... AWESOME pictures of the mountains and an elk or two ;)