Park City

Forwarning: It took me at least an hour just to download all

the pictures and since I want to add this to my blog book

I will be doing lots of Journaling. Just skip the reading!!

Park City here we come! We bought this trip a couple of

years ago after we went there originally for one of those

cheap come buy our time share trips. I thought it would

be fun to take a couple of friends there the next time and

stay for 3 nights and 4 days and the girls could go shopping

and the guys could golf. That was the plan last year, but

our schedules never worked out. Now that I had a baby

we decided to just go as a family and take the kids with us.

At the last minute Joe decided he would rather go hunting

since it may be his only chance this year so I invited my

mom and off we went! We left about 4:00 on Friday and

ended up stopping in Layton to do a little shopping while

I fed Kaden. We stayed there a little longer than we

expected so the kids were a bit grouchy the last 1/2 hour

of the drive, but we finally made it to the hotel about 9:00.

Don't mind the mess already! I packed a whole suitcase of

food so we could save on going out so much so most of the

time we just cooked in our hotel which was nice.

I thought we would have a loft in our room, but it was a six person

grand with one room and I was so glad that we didn't take our

friends with us because the extra 2 beds would have been

miserable for them. They were just fold outs from the couch and

at the dining room table which is where the kids slept.

The kids love hotels so they had so much fun exploring.

My mom thought Macy looked like she was texting. It wouldn't

suprise me if she could!

Enjoying our view from the balcony.

The kids had fun playing with this door. Brady thought it was

closed one time and ran right into it.

We spent most of the first day shopping! At the huge outlet

and then some other cute shops. The second day we went

to the Canyons to ride the gondola and here they are standing

in front of it.

The kids were excited!

This is the view just after we got on and started up the mountain

We thought the ride ended right at the top of the mountain, but

to our surprise it went back down the other side and up another

one. It was awesome. The funnest thing we did for sure and

luckily the tickets were good for all day so we rode it again later.

Macy sat like this and then said to me, "this is how daddy sits

with you."

After our first ride we drove down town and walked up

and down all the cute shops. They had a huge market going

on there with face painting and bouncy houses and tons of

local sellers there with all kinds of cool things. It was a good

day to go.

I had to take a picture of this monster dog. I was trying to get

one of the kids to go by it because you can't really tell how huge

it is all by itself but the head alone is probably double or triple

the size of a regular dog. It was the shop owners dog. Crazy.

After that we went back up the gondola and of course I had to take

yet another pit stop for Kaden. My mom took the kids on the nature

trail up around the lodge. The whole weekend was such perfect

weather!

They have 155 different bike trails up there and you can bike

or hike back to the where you originally get on the gondola.

This is my mom taking a picture from the river below where

Brady dropped his shoe!

My cute mom.

This one trail we found by the bridge was so gorgeous! I was

wishing Joe was there so we could take a family picture.

This was Macy's new pose. I have no idea where she came

up with it, but it was funny!

Afterwards we took them to this really fun park. The views

here are amazing!

How cute is that little barn?

We did see some guy getting arrested at this park, but for the

most part it seem safe!

Of course next we had to take advantage of the pool.

We let Brady and Macy swim the first day and then we joined

them the second night. I forgot to bring my camera. Kaden,

my mom and I were all too cold for the pool so we relaxed in

the hot tub which was really nice.

That night as we were getting ready for bed Joe showed up

at the hotel and suprised us! We were headed to the Hogle

zoo on Monday and he wanted to come. We were all happy

to see him!

Macy wouldn't take a drink out of this water fountain (it was a

huge lions head with it's mouth open).

There were so many new little babies there and they were all

so cute!

We did the train last so the kids would have something to look

forward to. They loved it.

Joe hung out with Kaden while we went and he looks to be okay

with that!

It was such a fun and relaxing trip even though we were on the

go most of the time. I really should have gotten a picture of the

elevator since we were on it so much. The kids fought over who

got to push the inside and outside buttons. Some of the funny

parts of the trip were us trying to get all of our crap into the

hotel in one trip. It was comical. I felt like we were moving in.

Then once we actually got everything in the elevator (we took

up the whole thing) we ended up getting off on the wrong floor

and then had to reload the elevator again! It was so funny.

Another funny moment was when we were going to the

gondola for the second time the way we went out the first

time was closed so we headed back toward the garage to get

out there and accidentally went out the wrong way and ended

up in the garage without the exit. There were all these people

holding the doors for us since we had a huge entourage and so

by the time we got out to the garage and realized it was wrong

we just pretended it was exactly where we wanted to go until

we knew the coast was clear to go back in and try again. I

almost peed my pants it was so funny. We had quite the

experience with the elevators. It was kind of a maze so it

was tricky trying to figure it all out, but by the last day we

had. What was funny was Joe went out the morning we

were getting ready to leave to take a load out and when we

finally all went to leave together we went to push the elevator

number and he said, "no that one won't get you to the right

level." We were like, "believe us we know how to get around

this joint." He even got lost! After the zoo we headed back

to Layton and went to my moms favorite dollar store and

then to Tai Pan where I could have spent all day. We were

only there for an hour and 1/2 and I didn't even pass the

halloween stuff! I need to go back and spend the day there.

Then we went to Red Robin where my mom has never been.

We didn't get home until about 11p.m. but it was all worth

it we had such a good time. Thanks mom for the fun

weekend!!!!

Macy got this helmet at the dollar store and insited I take

a picture of her. She's too funny.

Warrior pose.