Our Romantic Getaway

Joe and I had an amazing 2nd anniversary!
Last year we started giving
the traditional anniversary gift of the anniversary year you are on.
Last year was paper and this year was cotton.
I was gone at an orientation most of our anniversary day but,
we still had a fabulous time exchanging gifts, going out to dinner and eating chocolate cake.
(This cake reminded us of our wedding cake.)

After yet another day of orientation
we took off and left our little Provo apartment for the woods in Park City.
We stopped on our way to Deer Valley for dinner in Heber.
We enjoyed the usual tasty delights of the Dairy Keen.
After dinner we traveled to find our hotel...which was an experience.

Eventually we made it to the Goldener Hirsch Inn.
We felt out of sorts (we are not used to this type of attention)
as they escorted us to our room and
showed us all of the unique features.

One wonderful feature of our room was our own personal balcony!
It was so relaxing and cool to sit out on the balcony.
And we left our windows open at night to continue to enjoy all of that wonderful air.

Snooping around we found a few things we did not expect.

Here is a picture of our room. We had a fireplace too!!
And the bathroom...it was so wonderful
to be able both get ready at the same time in the morning.
In other words it was huge!

Our Key was also huge!
We lugged this little beauty all around the town.

The Inn was very cozy and had lovely touches everywhere!

The following day we spent time at the Utah Olympic Park!
We had never been there before and it was a great experience.
We started out the day with a tour of the park.
We were able to see ski jumpers and freestyle skiers practicing.
From there we went up to the bobsled, skeleton and luge track.

It was so neat to be able to see what equipment each sport required.
We even got to see the bobsled team practicing!

Then we headed up to the top of the highest ski jump.
This is a picture of what the athletes see as they come down the hill.

After the tour ended we walked around the museum areas.
I was able to ski a little...

And here is my husband, the Olympic torch runner.

...and curling fan!

It was amazing to see all of the historical memorabilia.
We saw all kinds things from Olympic medals
to costumes worn in the opening and closing ceremonies.

After we toured on our own for a while
we headed out to the ultimate extreme zipline.
It was fun to ride the chair lift up to the top of the K120 ski jump.
We got suited up and then were off for a 50 MPH journey.
We had a great time soaring down to the base.

These are pictures from after our extreme journey.

The very last part of the day was spent at the aerial show.
Part of the U.S. Olympic team of aerial and freestyle skiing performed!

It was an AMAZING experience to say the least!!

Here are our wristbands...and now subsequent tan lines.
After spending a day out in the sun we were ready for a nap and some dinner!
We had dinner at our hotel.
The food was amazing.
We both started with the french onion soup...WOW!
There were so many wonderful favors!
For our entrees I got an elk flank steak with black truffle tater tots
and Joe got the wiener schnitzel and spatzel.
For dessert we shared an apple strudel and cherry bread pudding.
We were full!!!
After dinner we drove around town and saw all of the beautiful lights.

We enjoyed our vacation and had a fabulous anniversary!

Happy Anniversary - August 18th

Happy Anniversary Love!!
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My Last Day of Summer

Yesterday was my last day of summer.
No, school has not started yet (it starts one week from today)
but for the remainder of my vacation
I have been and will be attending orientations
and filling contracted days of work.

Anyway, for my last day of summer,
Joe and I filled the day with all sorts of my favorite things.
We stayed up late the night before
watching movies and having some friends over
so we made sure we scheduled in some time to sleep in.
Then we went to see the movie, The Help.
We shared a giant popcorn and some skittles too.
We both really enjoyed it and I am looking forward to reading the book.
From here we ran some errands...
back to school stuff etc.
I found a new pair of jeans
and Joe's new tennis shoes were delivered to our house.

The day ended with Chinese food
and the King's Speech on our T.V.
All in all it was a great day
and a great way to end my summer.

Good Evening Moon

Joe snapped this picture the other night.
The moon was showing its bright face during the sunset.
(It is in the top left corner)
Goodnight day,
evening is here to stay.

Wounded

Yes, this sad picture is of my leg.

Yesterday I took a tumble down the stairs outside our apartment.
I was taking a large load of classroom material out to the car,
and my flip flop was ahead of me,
and I landed on the concrete stairs with both of my legs under me.
All of the materials landed on me
and made it impossible for me to move.
Lucky for me, Joe was also taking a load
and he was able to lift everything off me so I could extend my legs.
Then we detoured into the house to clean up my leg
and make sure nothing felt broken.

What an unexpected turn in our day.
But, we still made it to my classroom,
with me wobbling all the way.
And I got a chocolate milkshake with dinner!
You can't beat that!

Today my leg is improving.
I am still moving slowly and both of my legs are very sore.
I guess I will have another crazy scar story
to share with the world from this experience.

Bridal Veil Falls

Joe and I had planned to go up to Mt. Timpanogos Cave with some friends.
Unfortunately the cave tours were booked for the day.
So we detoured our plans and headed to
Bridal Veil Falls.

The waterfalls were beautiful.
It was a short hike up to one of the falls.
We enjoyed the cooler summer temperatures and the mist.
Hiking the falls was a great way to spend a Saturday.