There's No Place Like Home: Utah Trip continued

Day 3 - Sunday

It's raining & snowing here in Park City, UT so we decided to stay in and relax for the day. When we have an entire week of vacation we usually try to throw a couple of "do nothing" days in. We are staying in the Sweetwater Lift Lodge in a three bedroom, two bath, kitchen and living room lodge. We've learned from past experience that it is best for us to find a resort or hotel that has more than one bedroom. Allan took the litttles (Lizzie & Ben) to the park down the street once the rain stopped. He also stocked up on groceries, so we can cook when we are "home".

Benjamin and Lizzie played on the fun playground at the
local park. There is still some snow on the ground.

The kids enjoyed staying in the pjs most of the day and
watching tv, reading books, and playing games.

Day 4 - Monday

One of Benjamin's classmates' moms gave me a list of some fun places to visit in Utah. The first place we ventured to was Kennecott Copper Mine & Museum. We only had to pay $5 for vehicle entry. You don't actually enter the mine, but look down at the mine from above. They have a really nice museum about the history of copper, Kennecott mine, & Bingham Canyon where the mine is. It was a fun and an inexpensive outing! The kids were starving so as they ate and whined in the car I went inside the gift shop to buy a few souvenirs. I purchased a copper bell to ring at school, a copper snowflake shaped Christmas ornament, and a black with copper etching spoon rest/holder. We try to buy an ornament at most places we visit. It is fun to look at our Christmas tree during December remembering the fun places we've visited as a family.

This is the copper mine that has over 500 miles of roadway
going into it.

Lizzie and Benjamin observed the mine through the telescope.

After our outing to the mine we went to Hollywood Connection, an indoor activity zone. We played minature golf, rode on rides, played laser tag, and played arcade games. They even had a skating rink which we passed on out of exhaustion and the littles are just learning to roller skate. We registered on Groupon for the city Salt Lake City, so we've been receiving emails about groupons in that location. This one was a sweet deal for our family at only $39 for everything we did there! Now I have to be honest because everyone is smiling in these pictures, but vacations aren't always perfect and we are human in our mistakes. When we started playing golf Victoria started crying and I was having a hard time finding out what was wrong. She just wanted to go home. Then her attitude rubbed off on Nicholas and he became super whiny. Come on kids were on vacation! We're supposed to be having fun! Okay, I didn't say that, but I wanted to. Well it turned out that Victoria had a headache and stomachache and Nicholas was just hot. They started having fun eventually, but I just like to be honest that kids are kids and we all get tired, whiny, and fussy and unfortunately it can be contagious. We used our gift card to Olive Garden (thanks Kevin & Violet) and the kids were super excited about going out to eat. It ended being a really fun day!