A night out

Tara and I decided to celebrate new years early and went to Eve in downtown Salt Lake, while Tara's parents were so kind as to watch our kids.

We went to a U2 laser lights show at the planetarium, which was probably the coolest laser show I've seen.  Then we went to the Salt Palace where they had a room full of inflatable battle gear.

There was an obstacle course that we raced through. 

Then we jousted with reckless abandon.  It was probably the most even event we did, since balance was just as important as strength.   (Here are a couple random strangers duking it out). 

We also got on Sumo suits and did some wrestling.  It was basically a pushing contest. 

And lastly we put on gigantic boxing gloves and had at it.  Tara was a lot tougher in the ring than I expected.  She came out firing with a flurry of punches and each round I spent 95% of the time trying to shield my face and not to get knocked over.  Then, she'd get tired, and I'd take a couple mighty swipes at her body and take her down.  :)   (Here's a pic of the people who battled after we did). 

It was the closest thing we've ever had to a fight in our marriage. :)  And it was a lot of fun. 

An unrelated, but funny thing that also happened this week is that when Tara did the laundry this week, she didn't notice that Zade had taken a crayon and hid it inside of his footed jammies.  Thus, it melted inside of one of the feet, so after wearing the jammies one night, his entire foot turned the color of the melted crayon.  :)