The Steck Family: An Olympic Outting

The boys were super excited for the Olympics this year, I'd like to think that it was because they enjoyed watching it... but really I am certain it is because of the Wii Winter Olympics game that they got. I can dream, can't I?
The day before closing ceremonies we decided to take the boys to show them that the winter Olympic were actually here. We heard from a client of mine to take them to the Olympic Park Museum up in Park City (by ski jump) - I was a bit hesitant, didn't want it to be boring. BUT if you haven't been there... take your kids. It was super fun and the boys really enjoyed looking at the actual equipment, videos, uniforms and everything else that they had to see.

Preston trying out the Luge

Bryson on the Luge

Preston on the skeleton - out of all the Olympic events this would be the one I could see him doing. It is just crazy enough to fit his personality.

My boys in the bobsled, you can barley see Bryson and Preston's heads

A better view of the boys in the sled

Darren - OK, so I am sad to admit that we live in Utah and neither of us ski :( but if we did I could only imagine that Darren's face would look like this on his runs.

Darren a bit more serious

Bryson downhill skiing :)

Preston - apparently something caught his eye in the opposite direction of where he is skiing.

Weston, just doing what the big boys do.

The interactive Super G race the boys played

A slalom game the boys tried to play. You have to roll a lead ball through the course, it was pretty hard to be geared towards kids.

Darren taking a shot at it

Bryson and Preston lighting the Olympic Torch

The actual metals on display - they are much thicker then I would have imagined

This Olympic icon is made from Lapel pins... the picture doesn't show it well, but it fades in color from blue to red to yellow... pretty cool

Bryson loves the ski jump, we were hoping to catch them practicing, but no one was out today.

Bryson and Preston at the ski jump

This is the aerial hill, for practice purposes.. it is so super steep

But made a great sledding hill for the boys! Darren found this sled on the side of the building so he took it up the hill and down went Bryson

Darren taking a turn on the sled, Preston would not go down... it was too steep for him

What is snow with out a snowball fight?

By the bobsled which you cannot even see into so the boys were not interested ... thus the snow ball fight started.

Bryson taking a shot at Daddy.

After the Olympic Park we took the boys to McD's - official sponsor yah know - and then we were heading to the torch when we noticed we were short on time, Weston was asleep, so we skipped that part. We headed back home for Weston to nap and then took the boys over to the Olympic Oval for some speed skating. Bryson loves speed skating, he would really like to start doing that. The boys had a great time here, so much fun in fact that we credited our night and applied it to a family annual pass!

Bryson taking his first round on the ice, these little blue walkers they have are Genius... but they don't make them in my size :(

Preston on his first round... he is funny he basically runs on the ice picks

And Weston didn't like it!

Bryson and Preston out skating together

Weston and Me trying to get him to skate - it really freaked him out having the skates on the ice, he was good with them on the floor, not the ice!

More Weston, he made it about 50 feet before he was DONE!

Preston taking a rest

Darren learning to skate...

Weston, enjoying the night

This is what Weston did most of the 2 hours we were there.

Darren and Preston finishing up their lap

Bryson got brave and no longer used the blue walker, he does pretty good, but needs to glide a bit more. it is still more of a walk, but he is doing great!