Sunday, July 29, 2007

Salt Lake City Trip

We are home. It was a long trip, but it was good. We did not escape the heat, but the kids don't remember SLC it's been so long. We did Lagoon (which we probably could have done without) it felt like a glorified carnival and Steve and I aren't much for the spinning rides. Thankfully we were able to spend some time in the water park area to cool off. Then we went to the zoo, which was a hit. It was really kicked back and we all had a good time. Stopped by this is the place monument and then hit temple square before we left for Vegas. We didn't get to everything at the temple, but we did tour the conference center. That is an amazing building with a strong, peaceful spirit. We had planned on staying until Sunday, but Brandon did us in. He is difficult when we aren't at home. After 3 days of walking in the heat and not getting much sleep we decided to leave a day early. We also had issues with our hotel room the last night. They changed us in the evening to another room because we couldn't order a movie. Once we changed that TV didn't operate either and we discovered the air conditioning wasn't working. We tried to tough it out. I was DYING at 1am and went down to the lobby to request another room. We escorted the kids and all of our things down the hall. We were so DONE with this vacation.



Family vacations are good. Lots of work, but good. It is great to be home though.

Here are more unedited photos from our trip

8 comments:

Jen@eighteen25 said...

figured you were out of town... talked to your Dad at church and he filled me in on where everyone was.

glad you guys had a fun trip... except for the hotel room. that stinks.

Let me know when you want to rent that other lens. heehee.

Amber said...

That looks like the kids had fun. I love that zoo! And Brandon looks so big to me!

raeday said...

Looking at your pictures reminded me of when we took a trip there a long time ago, like the picture of Kyle on the how do you measure up sign.
Looks like you guys had a good trip, well besides the bad hotel rooms!

Candace said...

Ah, Hogle Zoo. That's a fun one.

i was going to call you today. i was worried that you were sick or something. glad to know you were just on vacation.

that photo of the temple is awesome. brandon looks big to me too....standing up on the fence.

Heather said...

That's too funny. I said the same thing to my husband about Lagoon. "It's like a glorified Carnival." My kids still loved it though. Glad you got to get away for a bit.

Ryan said...

What a great little get away, except the hotel- GEEZ! THats terrible, I can see wanting to get HOME where there is at least air conditioning and t.v.!! :)
Great pictures!!!

Carol said...

Love the gorilla picture. We have a few just like it. Love the temple picture too. Glad your home!

Caitlin said...

I was wondering what you were up to. Sorry about the hotel, that really stinks.