Elena’s parents were kind (i.e. brave) enough to take both Maren and Emma down to Lake Powell for the weekend.  I took Friday off from work and we spent the entire weekend together.  At first we thought of going somewhere, either a long drive or a plane ride, but instead we decided to hang around town and save some money (kind of).  It was great.

We spent all day Friday in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons.  I haven’t been up there forever.  We went on a two hour hike up the mountain from Hidden Falls.  Then we hiked up to Donut Falls.  Then we drove up and around Brighton and had lunch at Solitude.  It was beautiful.  There is so much run off water from all the rain and snow that the rivers are moving really fast.  You couldn’t get that close to Donut Falls unless you wanted to get really wet.  And from the top of the peak that we hiked to you could see waterfalls down the canyons.

Then we went over to Snowbird.  We went there because of the Grill on the Hill BBQ event.  Honestly, that was very underwhelming.  But we did ride the tram to the top of the peak.  I haven’t done that forever.  There is still quite a bit of snow up there (not enough to ski on though).  It was such a beautiful day that we could see forever.  Then we came back down and rode the alpine slide.  Not as great as the one in Park City, but still fun.  A great first day.

Saturday morning we played a round of nine holes at Eaglewood Golf Course.  I’ve never played a round of golf with just my wife.  It was great.  A little bit of rain, but we did finish before the down pour.  As for the scores… well, I don’t play for score.  :-)  Next up was the Chalk Art Festival at The Gateway.  The rain ruined the atmosphere of the whole thing.  There was still a lot of good art work, but I just felt terrible for the artists who had to work under tents and keep covering the art with plastic.

Then we went and saw The Proposal .  Typical romantic comedy, but it was fun.  Then dinner together at Z Tejas.  Overall an excellent couple of days.  I was looking forward to it all week and it did not disappoint.  Makes me feel like once the girls are old enough to watch themselves that Elena and I will never be home!  Ha!  Probably not… couldn’t afford to do that all the time.

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