Our Little Adventure in Utah

Well, since Chris was gone to the Bahama's and there was no one "coming home for dinner" I decided to pack up the kids and go on an adventure. We left the house Thursday a.m. and didn't come back 'til noon today(Sunday). First we headed to Antelope Island. It stunk...literally, but was amazing and we learned a lot. Then we went to Salt Lake and checked into the Plaza Hotel. We hopped into our bathing suits and hung out at the pool. It was awesome because I could lay in the sun and watch the kiddos and see the west side of the temple right in front of my face.
For dinner the kids wanted to go to the Hard Rock Cafe @ Trolley Square. We got on TRAX and rode it over there. We sat by ZZ Top's guitar. Yippee. I was so glad when the meal was over. I NEED more silence, LESS rock in my life. (: We then decided to get some groceries for the hotel since all of the downtown hotels have a restaurant instead of the free continental breakfast.(greedy misers) So we get out of the supermarket and have to walk 4 blocks to the TRAX station on busy streets. WOW! I don't think many big families would choose to live in a city where you have to hop on public transportation instead of into cars. It was kind of hairy keeping everyone together and safe while holding groceries. I cannot imagine going "full" grocery shopping without a car. I am a TWO cart woman when it comes to groceries and there is no way you could carry multiple gallons of milk, canned food etc.
We made it back to the hotel and chilled out and watched Are you smarter than a 5th Grader?. Steven of course blew the doors off me in answering the questions. He is too smart!(:
Since we only had two queen beds in the room I offered $5 to any "floor sleepers". Ryan was the only one who was richer the next morning.
Next morning we laid in bed, watched cartoon network and went to the pool before checkout. It was so nice to not have any schedule!!! We packed up and off we went to Kennecott Copper Mine. Wow! That place is amazing! The kids loved the gift shop of course. While we were out there looking down into this HUGE hole they announced that they were "blasting" in 30 min and everyone needed to evacuate. So off we went. We stopped at the gas station and got soda which is a MIRACLE for my kids. I am Water Lady and Daddy is the Soda Man. We drove through a few towns that we have never been in. We walked around Kaysville and saw some Victorian houses and were gonna go to the Dollar Movie, but just missed it. SO we headed up to Perry to see what play was at the Heritage Playhouse. No luck there. We did stop at the Air Force Museum. Katie and I went over to the Roy Museum and had so much fun while the boys explored all of the old air crafts.
Then we made our way to Brigham City, checked into the hotel and of course headed straight for the pool. We had Mexican food delivered and watched cable all night....then went swimming one last time before 11pm when the pool closed.
We came back today just in time for church after what my kids say was the AWESOME breakfast where you get to make your own waffles. Ryan and Alex were very good at working out on the exercise equipment at both hotels.....especially when there was a t.v. in the room.(:
It was just so nice to get away from the phone and schedule and CLEANING!!!!!!!!
Chris should be home by 2am this morning. We missed him so much.