Utah Fun



I thought I'd share some pictures from our trip to Utah last weekend.  We didn't do that great at taking pictures, but we got a few.  It was a really fun weekend, and we really packed in the activities in the four days we were gone.  We spent some time in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Park City.  All three were great.  Here's a quick look at what we did:

 

This is my signature shot of Doug.  Every time we go somewhere I get a shot of him driving us there. This was on the way to Salt Lake Friday morning.

 

Here's a picture of the Tetons.  We drove by them on our way down to SLC Friday morning.  It was so clear that we could see them really well and for miles and miles.  It was pretty awesome because I love the Tetons.  They are a really unique, beautiful mountain range.

Here's Doug messing around in a sporting goods store in SLC.  He looks like a Heisman winner to me!

This is the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake where the Jazz play.  They had the most beautiful trees surrounding the stadium.  It was gorgeous!

This is a picture of Doug and Ainsley at the Bobcat game on Saturday.  She's the daughter of some friends of ours.  She's 14 months old, and I think Drew might weigh more than her.  She was adorable and helped us get our fix of "baby time" when we were really missing Drew!

 One of the Olympic statues at the University of Utah stadium.  They had some Olympic history there as well because it was where the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics were held.

 

University of Utah football stadium. 

Cauldron Park was what the Olympic part of the University of Utah stadium was called.  They had some neat sculptures that were used in the opening ceremonies as well as the Olympic torch.

 

 Another shot of the stadium.

 

 Doug with the Olympic torch from the 2002 games.

An Olympic skier statue on the University of Utah campus. 

Salt Lake City's capital building.  It was massive, and really beautiful! 

 A shot of downtown SLC.

 

 Here I am at the town lift in Park City.  This lift gets you from downtown Park City to the Park City ski resort.  It's pretty neat!

 

 This was at the Park City Olympic park.  They have ski jumping and bobsledding at this facility.  We were lucky enough to catch the aerialists practicing while we were there. It was awesome.  They are insanely good and it's just pure fun to watch them jump into a pool!

 

 This is a shot of the big ski jump.

 

 Here's Doug practicing to be an Olympic ski jumper.

 

 I think he has potential!

 

Behind Doug is the bobsled course.  It's not ice, but they practice on it with roller bobsleds. In fact, if you pay enough, you can ride down the course and see what it feels like to be an Olympic bobsledder!

 Doug is an Olympic bobsledder!

 

 But I'm an Olympic skier, which is much cooler!

 This is where the aerialists practice. They go down the jumps and fly into the pool!

 

 Another shot.

 

 These pictures won't do it justice, but you can get a feel for what it was like to watch these athletes sail through the air and land in the pool.  Pretty awesome!

 

 Upside down!

 

 He looks like he's skiing moguls in the air!

 

 Doug with the Utah Olympic Park sign.  You'll notice the beautiful trees in the background.  October really is a beautiful month.  Park City had so many trees with changing leaves.  It was really beautiful.

 

 Here is another shot of the big ski jumps.  If you look closely, you can see Doug in the bottom right corner at the base of the jump.  That just shows you how massive this thing was.  I can't imagine hurling yourself off that jump.  Crazy!

 



 Here's the Deer Valley ski resort.  It had some really magnificent condos at the base.  I'm sure it would be a really nice place to ski.  We'll have to go back in the winter!

 

 Here's Doug at the base of Deer Valley.  He's pointing to the run where the Olympic moguls course was held in 2002.

 

 We visited a whiskey distillery called High West (they also had vodka).  It was the coolest whiskey distillery that I've ever been to (never mind it's the only one I've been to!), and they had AMAZING drinks.  I had the pink one on the right.  It was essentially a vodka lemonade with a pomegranate float, but boy was it the best vodka lemonade I've ever had!

 

 I was dying to get a caramel apple, so Sunday afternoon, my wish came true.  We enjoyed it with our little bear friend.  Yumm!

 

Finally, here is a picture of Doug at the Park City ski resort base.  They had all sorts of activities, like a mountain coaster and an alpine slide.  It was pretty neat.  And we just happened to catch the very last day they were open for the season!

 

Overall, we had a really great trip.  It was fun to get to spend some time alone with Doug, but we sure missed our little Drew.  Coming home after vacation wasn't as tough because we knew we had him to come home to.  We can't wait for the next big vacation, Hawaii with all of us in about a month!!