Discovery Gateway Kids Museum

Discovery Gateway Museum is in down town Salt Lake and has to be the coolest kids museum I've ever been to. I wouldn't call it a museum as much as I would call it a huge play house. The whole idea is taking real life things , making them small enough for kids, and using toys instead of the real thing. For example they had a whole house set up with a kitchen, living room and bedroom. In the kitchen was a fridge with play food in it, plates, cups and utensils in the drawers, a sink, and a kitchen table. In the living room there was couches and chairs (the cute little kid ones) and ironing board with an iron and a basket of clothes. In the bedroom there were babies, beds with blankets and pillows, clothes for the babies, pack- n- play and a stroller! And that was just the house. Here's a look at some of the other things they had-

This was the construction zone. They had all kinds of construction vehicles, and those grey foam blocks were for building. They had two cranes on a pulley system so you could move the blocks up and down.
This was the farm area. They had costumes you could put on to be a cowboy or cowgirl, a cow or like Clark, a horse. The chickens in the background all had a basket with eggs in it. There was also full size horse you could climb on and a "garden" where you could pick food out of it and put it in baskets.

This is the grocery store. This was probably my favorite- it was so real. As you can see this was the produce section with all kinds of fruit and vegetables. Then there were actual isles with canned goods. There was also a deli that had a real looking deli case with meat, eggs, cheese fish ect. The bakery had breads and croissants . The kids got a shopping cart and walked around the store picking out whatever they wanted.

Then you actually get to check it out! They have the cash registers that make noise when you push the buttons and everything. We had alot of fun in the store.

They also had cars and this real old-time gas pump. Clark loved putting gas in his truck.

All in all it was a fun day! We even met Ryan for lunch afterward, since his job site was only 4 blocks away. The only draw back was how expensive it is. It's $8.50 per person over 1 year old! Luckily I had a coupon and only paid for 2 instead of 3. It's a shame- if it wasn't so expensive we'd go all the time!