Park City Day #2

Monday morning Shannon's family went swimming. 

The kids had been asking to go swimming since they arrived on Saturday night. 

Have you ever seen such cute googles??

Fred and Garrett were checking out the ping pong table.

We headed downtown to Park City Base Area. They have shopping, eating and some cool rides.

Here we are piling out of our cars. 

 Applying sunscreen. Again - it was HOT!!!

 Once we all decided which rides we wanted to buy tickets for, we quickly learned the wait lines were LONG. Like an hour plus. Shannon and Brian decided to go check out the Olympic Park with their kids. They were too little to be passengers on these rides anyway.

Ben volunteered to sit out and be on Henry duty while Corinne and the big boys waited in line for the Coaster and the Slide.

 The waiting was pretty awful, but once the ride was over I think the boys forgot the pain.

 Corinne and her boys went on the Coaster and the Slide.

 Fred and I only went on the Coaster. The last time I screamed the entire ride. It was so much fun.

This time I think I knew what to expect so there was no screaming, but it was just as much fun!!

 We went back to the Resort and the kids played while Corinne and Ben got to work on dinner.

Fred left for the airport to pick up Scott and Jess & Evan.

Here is Evan greeting Garrett. It was pretty cute!

 Now we are all here!

Each family took a turn at preparing a meal for dinner. This always works out nice. 

At least I think so. No one has complained about it and I know I certainly don't want to make food for everyone when we get together. This way we all get to eat something a little different and new.

 We did bring a few things for the kids to play with. This train track was a good choice.

Four Score is always popular too.

 Corinne's meal was Hawaiin Haystacks. Yummy!!

 Our drink barista.

A little cousin bonding. I could see each day the cousins getting more comfortable together and getting along better two. Figuring out how each other works.

 A little patio dining for Garrett.

  This is a photo that Brian took when they were at the Olympic Park earlier in the day.

  Shannon and Brian went back to Park City Base to ride the coaster later in the evening.

Fred and I offered to stay with the grand kids in waves. Not all at the same time. We aren't that confident or would that be "not that crazy". 

Other than it being so hot and the lines ridiculously long -

It was a good day. 

Park City Reunion 2017 Let's Get Started

The Fred Daly Family Reunion 2017 - Park City, Utah. 

So we've had this on the calendar for way over a year. It felt like it would never come. But it finally did. Fred and I headed out and stopped immediately for free breakfast sandwiches at Chick Fil A in St. George. I post this because, well it was just kind of awesome. 

First of all, the food was actually pretty yummo and a great price. 

 Second, look at the receipt.  

How smart is this company?

Now I know how they find you to bring you your food.

Duh? Why aren't other places paying attention?

 There is a super huge gap in stuff going on before this, but photo taking was not happening.

Buying food and lugging ten tons of luggage and crap to the room happened first.

But we won't go into that. It was kind of a pain. The Westgate Resort is kind of a maze and a pretty stupid design as far as getting from the parking garage to your rooms. But by the time the kids starting arriving we had it figured out.

Shannon and Brian arrived first Saturday evening. I don't remember much now what took place. 

We'll just skip to Sunday morning here.

Shannon and Brian planned on attending Sacrament meeting somewhere here in Park City. 

Before they left for an 11 block, we walked up to the Gondola for a free ride. 

Here is our selfie from up in the gondola.

Corinne and Ben's family arrived after their church meetings. We hit the gondola again.

I'm glad we did because we didn't know that the gondolas are only open on the weekends.

 Here's Ben & Corinne with Garrett & Henry.

 Richard and Spencer.

 Mr. Cutie Pie Grandpa!!!

  Brian's younger brother Aaron and his wife and their family came for dinner and to hang out for a while. We all ate tacos.

 Then there was some playing at the playground.

Corinne's family did some swimming too.

I think I'll identify everyone to begin with.

Richard with Corinne & Ben.

 Corinne (obviously) and Henry.

Part of the pool is covered and the other half is open.

The water was VERY WARM. Actually too warm considering the whole time we were in Park City it was in the 90s. A little bit disappointed in the weather. We were hoping for a little reprieve. 

 Garrett on the left and Spencer on the right.

Day Number One Over and Out.

A day at Cedar Breaks

Over the Memorial Day weekend, we wanted to go see a National Park that we haven't been to yet.

We decided on Cedar Breaks. I didn't want to spend the whole day in the car.

We had planned on arriving at our destination and then getting out and walking any trails that might be nearby. It was about 11:00 AM when we left home. Fred planned for us to take jackets, but as it seems lately we get out the door and forget things,

Jackets were forgotten,

 We stopped at the Brian Head Resort. We like to take pictures of where we are. Since there is no sound to attach to my blog we can't narrate our travels. :)

 You can actually drive to the top of this mountain. Not in my car. Fred wants to take his Dad's truck and go up to the top the next time. I'm not too sure about that....

Picture of taking pictures.

I don't feel like any of our pictures do justice to how beautiful it is up there.

   Oh so you notice how high in elevation we are? I WAS FREEZING..

We did not do any walking except to take pictures.

 

   

 I try to remember to take pictures of Fred. He brought his camera and I had my phone. 

Most of these photos are from his camera. I think he always takes better pictures than I do.

 We stopped in Cedar Cedar first to eat some Subway sandwiches. We had a leftover bag of chips.

It puffed up in the elevation.

It was a very nice day trip. I do love spending this kind of day with Fred.