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We traveled to Utah for my brother’s wedding this June and while the focus of the trip was to celebrate his nuptials, we had a few fun adventures with the boys along the way.



Despite our early flight and long trip, we found the energy to go to the zoo as soon as we arrived in Salt Lake City. The boys loved the zoo, especially the carousel ride and the train. Davin is interested in snakes lately (though fortunately he just likes to talk about them, not own one), so he was brave enough to go to the snake house and was ecstatic when he found a snake log on which to ride on the carousel.



The next day was spent at Jere’s wedding (blog and pictures to follow), and the day after we took the boys to their first day at Lagoon, the local amusement park. My dad had several free tickets and it was amazing how not paying made it all the more fun! The weather was drastically cold for June (a high of 65!), so we bundled in sweaters and jackets and braved the cool weather. Davin and Rowan are crazy amusement park adventurers. The only thing holding them back was height restrictions and an occasional line. For them, the bigger the ride, the better! They had fun riding the little kid rides, too, like the classic boats that have been around since my mom was little. We now have at least three generations of pictures of kids riding the little boats and ringing the bell. Davin was a little disappointed that we couldn’t ride waterslides (again, we really, really needed those sweaters) but overall it was an amazing day. We thoroughly exhausted Rowan, though. He fell asleep before we left the parking lot, slept through dinner at the Mandarin, and stayed asleep until the next morning.




Saturday was spent driving to Idaho Falls for Jere and Haley’s open house (again, pictures and blog to follow). We returned Saturday night so that we could spend time with family again on Sunday. We had a great time visiting with my grandmas and all of the family that was in town for the wedding. We spent Sunday evening at Grandma Winter’s house and Davin and Rowan had a great time playing with my cousins.




On Monday we had one more day of fun, so we finished with a a trip to Wheeler Farm. We spent the evening at Cherry Hill’s golf course, one of the boys’ favorite things to do. We had a great time visiting Utah! Davin and Rowan think it is a magical place where everyone has fun all the time (they were so sad to come home!) and I think they are probably right.



Comments

Jenny said…
Looks like we just missed you. We rolled into town at 4:30am Monday the 14th. Next time we will have to get together!! Miss you!
July 6, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Sara said…
How fun for your family. The Mandarin makes my mouth water!
July 14, 2010 at 7:07 AM
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