Highlights Of Our Vacation

The last 48 hours we spent doing the following:

Camping

You would think from this picture that we all slept so peacefully that first night... and you would be very very wrong.

George Eccle's Dinosaur Park

You have never actually seen a child so totally uncontrollably giddy with delight unless you have seen Joshua walk into this Park. This may have been my favorite part of the vacation - just watching Joshua's face!

They had dead dinosaurs - Joshua's favorite, the Allosaurus

And live dinosaurs - Abby is not very impressed.

It's pink, so of course it is hers

Swimming and Canoeing in Pineview Reservoir

She took her swimsuit off herself. There was no point in fighting to get it back on.

But she refused to take off her sandals!!!

Visiting a Monastery

We went inside the chapel to hear the monks sing but I didn't take photos of the monks and my photos of the chapel and stained glass didn't turn out

These are the graves of the monks who have lived here. This used to be a self sustaining monastery. But now there are only 15 monks left and 11 of them are 80 years old or older.

Campfire and S'mores

Awful quality photo - fabulous quality time.

A PINK marshmallow. This may have been Abigail's favorite part of the vacation. She had about 4! (mallows, not smores)

Hill Air Force Museum

Derek and I have wanted to come here for a long time but it is always too far away to drive in just one day. This museum, however is AWESOME!! And it is free. Very very well done. This was probably Derek's favorite part of the vacation.

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

On our drive home Joshua asked why our vacation had been so short. Wow. I don't know. I'm pretty beat. It was so much fun. You know it's a good vacation when you were only gone 48 hours but you feel like you've been gone all week - and when you were only 2 hours away from home but you felt like you were miles away from all your troubles. Thanks to the Christensen's for the invite.