We are BACK from Vacation! - Saturday

Holy Toledo!

That was a GREAT vacation!

We have been in Utah for the past 10 days.

Hope you didn't miss us.

LOL

Part way through, my phone blew up.

So it was a TRUE vacation.

No texts.

No phone calls.

(ACK!!!!!)

At least I could still take pictures...

We flew in Friday afternoon and drove

straight over to Soni's house.

(Yes, I CAN take pictures.

I just forget.

Constantly.)

We shared a yummy Hawaiian pizza

with Soni and Matt.

(Greg was in Hurricane with the girls)

It was so great to see them.

WOW Matt makes the most amazing

hand carved spoons!

(Again - no picture)

(But I'll take a picture when mine gets here...)

We had a great visit with them and

then headed up the mountain to the cabin.

(Stopping at WalMart in Heber for groceries)

Saturday we headed down the mountain

and had a fun breakfast at Chicks Cafe

in Heber City.

We had a great time driving through the canyons.

(Kyle was our chauffeur for the week...)

As well as the chief photographer.

Rod took his share as well...

This one was mine.

Then we headed on down into Provo.

Of course, we had a bucket list of things we wanted

to do and see while in Utah this year.

One of them was THIS.

Kyle has been watching BYU TV and saw a special

about the creamery and HAD to try their ice cream.

Oh my goodness!

It was fantastic!

(Yup, the diet was suspended for 10 days...)

Kyle enjoyed his!

He hates when I take his picture.

See?????  

LOL

Doesn't that look yummy?

(The ice cream was good too...)

And then...

It was up to the "Y".

We decided that climbing that STEEP mountain

was probably a poor choice of activity right after

bowls of super rich, creamy ice cream.

We did get a good view of the city of Provo though.

It was fun trying to pin point places from our past.

We drove around and found our old apartments,

(OLD and run down looking, but neither of them were "new" when

we lived there 34 years ago either...)

Then we found Rocky Mountain Helicopters

(which is now a cement plant)

(Rod took pictures)

where we met

and Powder River Enterprises

where I worked just before we got married.

(checked out DHI {Dairy Herd Investigators}

online but didn't drive over...)

None of our favorite food haunts still existed.

Sensuous Sandwiches

Rolling Scones

and the burger place that used to give the

guys grocery bags full of fresh popcorn

when they were working overnights.

It was fun to drive around and see them all!

On the way back up the canyon we stopped

at Bridal Veil Falls and walked about 2 miles.

Strangely I took lots of pictures of the trail

but not ONE of the falls themselves!

Wow.

I'm an impressive photographer.

We spent LOTS of time in the mountains,

climbing various trails.

And the guys were constantly asking me

"So what are THESE berries?  Can we eat

them?  If Grandpa were here, he would tell us..."

So Dad.

What are THESE?

They grow in a clump,

so we were pretty sure we shouldn't eat them.

(We didn't eat ANY berries)

Finally back to the cabin so make some 

burgers with fresh corn on the cob

and get a good night's sleep for the next day's

adventures.

Tomorrow... Sunday.