Our (Boring) trip to Utah

Jeremy signed up for a class in Park City for his CME week, so we decided to tag along and call it a summer vacation.  We spent the first part of the trip in Provo at Aunt Bev's house and the last part of the trip in a condo in Park City.  Last night on our way home from Utah, I asked the kids, "Quick, what was your favorite part of the trip?"  Giving them no time to think.  Here are their answers:

Abby: Staying at Bev's

Hannah:  Sleeping at Bev's

Jake:  Sleeping at Preston's and watching baseball

Annie:  Playing Barbies at Bev's

Now, Aunt Bev is a wonderful host, one of the best, but I would have said something along the lines of...

- Swimming at 7Peaks - huge water park with tons and tons of slides (no pictures). I'll give it to the kids on that one, it was a cool day with the wind blowing, so I can see how that might not make the favorites list, but it was still way fun.

- Hiking to Bridal Veil Falls outside of Provo.  It was a quick half mile hike with a gorgeous waterfall waiting for us at the top.

- The Bean museum - Tons and tons of cool stuffed animals - the biggest elephant I've ever seen.  

- Hanging out in Park City - we did a lot of shopping and each of the kids got a souvenir.

- Miniature golfing in Park City, or riding the carousel (Annie's unmentioned fav)

- The Alpine Slide in Park City - The kids got to go by themselves while Jeremy was in his conference and I had to stay down with Claire and Annie.  Later when Jeremy got out of his conference, he and I were able to take turns going with the kids.    It was super fun and a beautiful lift ride up the mountain. This was my personal favorite. (sorry no pictures of Jeremy or Annie, I'm a little Grandma Taylor-esque in my photography and only got his feet on camera).  On our last night there, we decided to make one last run down the Slide.  It was 8:30 pm,  42 degrees on the lift up plus a powerful wind chill!  Talk about freezing and scary, but the slide down was still a blast.

- Going in to Salt Lake City. We walked around Temple Square, toured the Conference Center - amazing by the way, and went to the Church History Museum.  My kids love the movie 17 Miracles and so all the pioneer stuff was really cool for them.

- Swimming at the hotel pool, then taking baths in our huge chacuzzi (jacuzzi Annie style)

- Playing mean games of baseball outside of our hotel.  They found a stick, had a tennis ball,  used a stump for home plate, and trees for bases all while being played in a small area on a pretty steep hill with every ball going into the parking lot.  They played it forever.

- Stopping at Lake Powell for a swim on the way home from Utah.

Now, one of those things is what I would have picked.  At least they didn't say watching re-runs of Disney Channel shows!