"Look at the Whole Wide World!"

Our family spent the first few days of June on a great vacation! On Monday, June 2, we drove to Heber City to take advantage of a free stay at the Rodeway Inn Bear Mountain Lodge on Main Street. The hotel website talked about the great rooms and the outdoor heated swimming pool. Well, the rooms were well-used (with a hint of smoking smell) and the pool was empty. It was a big disappointment for Deb and Angie when they saw the pool.

To make things better, we went to a park up the street to play on the swings and slides. Some pictures of Deb and the kids at the park:

Lilli and Deb on the slide.

Angie deciding what to do next.

Lilli with Bear!

Lilli swinging with Bear.

Lilli with Bear.

Deb helping Angie on the Monkey Bars.

Angie getting ride to slide.

Angie at the end of her slide.

After playing in the park, we went to Home of the Train Dairy Keen. It is a fun place to eat--though we just had a slush to cool us down. While there, the kids rode a train and sat in a train with tables for dining. Inside the restaurant, there was a table of wooden toy trains, a Lego table, and overhead a model train circled the dining area. Some pics:

Angie and Lilli on the train ride at the Dairy Keen

Lilli and Angie on the train of tables

Lilli, Angie, and Deb on the table train

We then went on ride to the top of Memorial Hill in Midway. Deb got out of the car with Angie and Deb started to show her the Heber Valley. Angie then said, "Look at the whole wide world, Mom!"

We then drove to Pizza Hut for supper then back to the hotel to bed.

The next morning we drove to Salt Lake City via Park City. While in Park City, we saw this bear and had our picture taken next to it:


We then went to Salt Lake and the Tracy Aviary. We got to see many different birds and even a couple of male peacocks strutting their stuff for a female peacock. After visiting the aviary, we went to the slide and swing area of Liberty Park. Again, Angie and Lilli had a blast swinging and sliding!

Angie finishing a slide

Angie at the park

Angie on the swing

Angie in the swing

Angie getting ready to swing

Deb helping Angie swing

Deb helping Lilli and Angie swing

Lilli and Angie swinging with the help of Deb

After our visit to Liberty Park, we went to downtown Salt Lake and rode the Trax. Then we motored over to Shauna and Scott's. Shauna doesn't love us so she made other plans to avoid being with us! Scott was a gracious host taking us to Chili's with Chris and Jessie.

When we got up on Wednesday morning, it was pouring. We had planned to go to Hogle Zoo. We waited around for a while hoping the rain would quit, but it didn't. By late afternoon, it had slowed to a drizzle so we tried going. Even though it was a drizzle, we still got wet but we had the zoo practically all to ourselves. We even crashed a private party for zoo donors (minimum donation to go to the party was $5,000!). We then came home--exhausted, wet, but happy.