My Mom and Jenna came to visit over their spring break. We had a good time, went hiking in the foothills near my house and then had a picture perfect day of hiking on Antelope Island (polar opposite from my visit two weeks ago with Kirsten)…
They were loving the dry and warm weather that we were having, we saw lots of lizards sunning themselves while we were hiking, but they were too fast for us to snap a picture. Antelope Island is such a weird place, it is only about 45 minutes from my house but the landscape is so different it seems as though you are much further…
It was sad taking them to the airport last night; was so nice to have a couple of days with them and not have to work. Hopefully I will be able to get to Oregon in May for a visit, I am longing for Oregon rain and some green in my life right now, just doesn’t seem right to have spring come without some moisture.
We also had a fun time exploring the SLC night scene which included a sad and hilarious attempt at “bar hopping” we ended our evening by performing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” at a Karaoke bar, it is pretty safe to say we were the only ones with talent, immediately after our performance despite the entire bar’s pleads for us to stay and give an encore, we left the building. Here is a picture of Lindsay from that night…
After Lindsay left Steph came into town for Thanksgiving! We had a good time as well, one of the absolute highlights of her trip was when we managed to come across 7 Newfoundlands at a very posh pet store in Park City, the owner of the dogs (and the store) must have sensed my love for them (I did tell him at least three times “I love them”) and gave us 2 Newfie’s for us to walk around Park City!!! I was beyond excited, in fact I am still worked up about it, made my month!
Oh Yeah we were pretty serious about it, our very own little Whoville! Steph and I also cooked a turkey and did the whole Thanksgiving feast (mini style since it was just Jas, Steph and myself). The turkey turned out amazing, although I have to say that while Lindsay was here she and I cooked a full turkey breast in preparation for my first bird and it was by no means an easy task, in fact it was a disaster. Luckily the second bird turned out and was just wonderful, all credit going to Steph since I had to work the night before Thanksgiving when she did most of the work making the brine and everything else. This picture is blurry but check that bird out!
Here is a picture that gives a better perspective as to how tiny she actually is…
So cute, they also had three baby tigers, a monkey and a giraffe, Kelsey got some good pictures that you can see on her blog 
I love our mountains, can’t seem to get enough of them and I am so excited for winter when they will be covered with a nice blanket of snow! Kelsey and Michael also came to stay with us for a few days, unfortunately Jason’s schedule was a bit hectic so he wasn’t able to hang out too much. I was able to accompany them up to Little Cottonwood for a picnic lunch and take a ride on the tram up to Hidden Peak…
After a long day in the canyon what could be better than a giant milkshake from Iceberg?
We each split a milkshake since there is more than enough for one person when you order a Regular sized shake! Jason is not a fan of Iceberg Drive-Inn since they forgot his chicken nugget dinner but since I emailed the company and explained our frustration with the service we received, they sent us a 10 dollar gift certificate to make up for our troubles! I do like their sign even though their service sucks 
You can see the cute little chairs they had carved out of stumps and the plants were trained to grow over the wire fencing which provided the structure for the playhouse, it was so nice and cool inside because of the plants perfect for hiding out on a hot summer day! They had a large tunnel trellis that was shaped like a snake, you entered through his mouth and then you could wind through his whole body like a maze, here is a picture of the inside of the snakes belly…
We ended our day by driving down into Heber City on the other side of the Canyon and then swinging past Utah’s Bridal Veil falls, it was impressive but my goodness were there a lot of people standing at the base of the falls sort of like going to Multnomah falls but worse because here people were splashing around in the water, sort of takes away from the beauty.
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It was a nice little hike although it will probably be even better in early fall once all the kids go back to school. Then we went over to Snowbird and took a ride on the tram which takes you up to the top of Hidden Peak which is 11,000 feet! It was sort of scary but awesome at the same time here is a picture of Dan filming our ascent…
Our chariot…
We were laughing because it was weird to be on a ski lift without skis on, so when we were approaching the end of the lift we found our selves automatically raising our tips…
When we got back to SLC we picked up Jas and went to find a good place to watch the sunset…
It was a pretty evening you can see some of the Salt Lake off to the left in the picture below and what looks like a mountain range in the background is actually Antelope Island which is in Salt Lake…
