4:45 am is a little early for the teenager. 😴

It’s THAT Time!

The one time a year that Daddy let's us go crazy with candy and snacks…VACATION time! 

Stay tuned to all the fun that's about to be had. 

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We purchased combo tickets and hit the Creation Museum the next day.

Don't make me pick a favorite. They are similar in many ways but also different. The Ark provides a true visual and experience of what life would have been like. The Creation Museum does a great job of comparing two views of the same evidence. How do scientists come at what is discovered and what do believers see.

The flood is a big part as well as evolution.

I could return and learn more at both. Jodi and spent a lot of time reading at the CM. It's a lot to process and think about. Questioning what you believe and have thought about. It easy for us to assume many things because we don't have first hand experiences or because our experiences are different.

Sometimes you see what you want to see.

While there was a great deal of reading they also had videos and audio throughout.

This trip followed or national parks trip perfectly. Going out and seeing layers of rock and hearing "millions of years" were needed to create this and that and then having biblical explanations of what we experienced was wonderful. SKV had asked me questions in Utah around the time references. This trip starts new conversations.

The door.

The families.

The wild children.

The tired children.

There are things that we don't think about until we are forced. I don't know that over ever thought much about the systems and intelligence that was needed to make the ark work. Feeding thousands of animals, watering them, removing waste, living for a year in an enclosed space.

Visiting the ark takes you to a place to think back to what it all must have been like. The pushback and mocking Noah must have experienced.

The images we grow up seeing of the ark are cartoon, oversized animals, in a small boat. Not reality. But it goes with the story right? Maybe that's why we never stop to think what it was really like.

It was neat to read the biblical references and artist interpretations made to complete the scene of what the Bible doesn't say. Dinosaurs on the ark, juveniles and small versions of animals versus full grow animals. Not ever version of every bear, etc.

After what is probably months and years of taking about it...we finally planned our trip to see Noah's Ark with the Coxes.

It was awesome!

You parked, got on a bus, and rode to the ark.

The landscaping was beautiful. Everything was blooming and it was all different.

One last trip before school starts! Noah's Ark and Creation Museum.

So. This ride has warnings. That we have read. Every. Time.

After ECV conquered so many big things she decided to drive her own.

That worked out well so as the place was closing we decided to run one last time.

How, I don't know. But in our last run both Kevin and Sidney Kate had their carts slide out from them. They both deserve a stern talking to. I can't with these people.

They say they did nothing wrong. I don't believe it. Two people who are very clumsy and chose to go fast down a ride with several warnings. #youpeople

They enjoyed this time and again!

Embree Claire is getting a lot of experience outside of her comfort zone.

Ropes course for kiddos, rock wall climbing, zip lines, and more!

Lots of fun activities!