Sunday, July 20, 2008

Our Mini Vacation

Last weekend we took a little vacation. The kids have wanted to go to a cave so we decided to stay with Spencer and Katie in Logan and go to Minnetonka Cave up by Bear Lake. We arrived Saturday afternoon after I got off work and toured Spencer and Katie's new apartment, played at the park, bought Ice cream and cheese at Gossners, visited the animals in Willow Park Zoo, went out to dinner at El Toro Viejo, attended church, took pictures at the temple, had a picnic at 2nd Dam, went to the cave and swam in Bear Lake all in less than 3 days!


This is the view of the Logan River from the park by S and K's new apartment.






Here we are at Willow Park Zoo looking at the animals or is it the other way around?

We watched this peacock and the tortise for a long time. The peacock kept fanning his tail, but every time I ran around the fence to get a picture of it he either turned around or lowered it.
















The beautiful Logan Temple is Magestic day or night. You can see it's spires glowing as you drive up Canyon Road to S and K's house.

We had a fun afternoon at 2nd Dam. I went hiking with Colin and Kaity, took pictures with Malerie (I "rented" her my old camera), and just enjoyed the beautiful surroundings and the day. This is Kim's idea of a relaxing day. We made a camp fire to roast hot dogs and smores but it was too hot to get near it.



We drove to Bear Lake and Minnetonka Cave on Monday. We stopped at the scenic overlook to get our "first view of Bear Lake. Then went up to the cave. Malerie had done a report on Crystals last year and wanted to go to a cave ever since. She said it was cool but not quite what she expected. Anyway we all had fun in spite of all the stairs (over 800). But the best part of the day was Bear Lake. We thought it would be too cold for swimming so Carolee didn't bring swimsuits for the kids so they just swam in their clothes. Malerie and Kaity, Spencer and Katie didn't want to get out of the water, but Colin got cold and enjoyed feeding the seagulls. They put on a good show and I had fun taking pictures of them.

3 comments:

Julianne said...

Oh that looks like such fun!! I wish I could have been there. I'm glad you guys have a blog. :)

Todd said...

Welcome to the blogging world. I'm impressed with your first blog. That does look like you had a lot of fun. Keep 'em coming!

Nicole said...

I am so jeolous that looks like it was a lot of fun.