"Let's Not Go To The Dam"

Those were Liam's words as we were hanging out at our campsite at Rolley Lake this weekend. But now that the kids are into Big Kid Beds, the next logical progression to their maturity would be visiting museums, right? So off to the Stave Lake Dam Visitors Centre it was!
I have to give the kids credit, they paid attention through the 9 minute video about electricity. (Really!) They enjoyed the hands-on exhibits and especially loved the old rotary telephones. They will likely never use a rotary phone "for real" so spinning the dial was good fun. Meanwhile, Matt and I appreciated the old/new contrast:

But by the time we got to walking the floor with the old turbines, they were pretty much done. Matt was all about the photo opp, but I'll be honest: the following pictures were made possible by a threat to not make s'mores at the campfire that night. Egad! That got them posed pretty quickly! These two will do pretty much anything for a marshmallow.

In this photo Liam is saying "I don't want any more pictures this weekend!"

And then they were off...


And back to the fun stuff outside: