': Fun summer trip, to Utah, with Alaina.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Fun summer trip, to Utah, with Alaina.

This week I was able to take a little rode trip with Alaina to visit my sister Megan in Utah. Alaina’s growing up so fast so fast. (She’ll be in Young Women’s in April. Holy Cow!!!!) Needless to say it was a ton of fun spending a whole week of one on one time with her just doing girlie things. (Road trip picture at a rest stop in Idaho. We’re half way there only 5 more hours to go :)

We spent the first day in Utah at the Lagoon. Normally in the middle of August it would be blazing hot but today was totally overcast and breezy. Not cold or anything… just perfect! (We ended up running into the Glade and the Bayles families while we were standing in line for rides. Seeing people from your home town, somewhere 3 states away from your home town definitely makes you do a double take)

I decided to take a quick pic with Alaina as we were standing in line for our first ride of the day. This is how it went. “K… Alaina… Smile.”

Take 5. Close enough, it’s a keeper.

On our way home we ate at Zuppa’s. Yummy! I want this restaurant in the TriCities! You go along the counter and choose a combination of 2 things between soup, salad, and sandwich. It was really good!

The next day we ate at a fun Chuck E Cheeselike, pirate themed restaurant. The server spoke only pirate and didn’t brake character once. You know…Aaarrrgghhh Matey, Shiver me timbers, Buccaneer, walk the plank etc.

After lunch we spent the day shopping for a few new school clothes for Alaina.

Day 3 was more shopping and lots of driving. It’s amazing how much driving you do to get to all of the fun places in Utah. Everything is so spread out. After a while everyone started getting a little car sick so to lighten things up a bit we turned the car into a photo both and took a ton of pictures.

Later that afternoon we ended up getting to meet Megan’s boyfriend Aaron and went to a movie with them that night.

Day 4 in Utah started with a haircut for Alaina, then we spent the rest of the day at the waterpark. Fun times! It was going to be our last full day there so we also hit a ton of Utah restaurants that we were still wanting to eat at before we left. Noodles & Company for lunch, Cafe Rio for dinner, and the Mayan for dessert.