Park City Vacation 2014

We took a week-long trip to Park City in the middle of August.  It was so much fun....very relaxing!  We rented a 3-bedroom condo with 3 bathrooms, 3 TV's, 2 living rooms, and a kitchen.  It even had a washer and dryer.  There was plenty of space in our "apartment" and on the grounds was a swimming pool, a game room, and a small theater room.  We reserved the theater room one of the evenings and watched Ender's Game...just our family. We had the whole room to ourselves.  It was awesome!  Sadly, Brandon wasn't able to come because of work.  It was the beginning of the busy season, so he decided to stay home and earn some money.  We definitely missed him!!

Grandpa Jones came up to visit on Monday and stayed over until Tuesday afternoon.  We went miniature golfing together and that was fun.

On Thursday, we went to the Utah Olympic Park.  We purchased "Gold Passes" so we could spend the day riding the zip lines and the Alpine Slide.

This is a picture of Kyle and Dallin on top of a jungle gym kind-of thing.  It was actually really small and very easy to climb.  (They are so funny!)

Here are some pictures of each of us on the Alpine Slide.  It was so fun!

Dallin

Todd

Kyle

Jacob

Mom

One of the activities at the Olympic Park was a challenge course.  Actually there were three of them...a beginner's, an intermediate, and an advanced.  Right before lunch the kids and Todd decided they wanted to try the beginner's course.  So they all got suited up in the harnesses and began their journey.  I sat this one out because I wasn't sure I would be able to do it.  It looked kind-of hard, and it was also high up, so I relaxed a bit while they did the obstacle course.

The course began with a rock wall.  Of course everyone was hooked into a cable, too, in case anyone fell.  (Scary!)

Kyle

Jacob

Dallin

Todd went last

At the end of the course, they got to zip line back to the base.  It was pretty cool.

 After lunch and a few more zip line runs, the kids decided they wanted to do the obstacle course again.  So this time, I decided to try it.  It's hard to tell from this picture (below) what each obstacle was, but trust me, it was HARD!  Well, for me anyway.  I was cursing my entire family the whole way through and I wasn't sure I was going to make it to the end.  Somehow I persevered through it.  But I didn't like it!  I didn't like being up high and hooked into this little cable thing, which I was pretty sure wasn't going to "save" me if I fell....Oohh, I'm scared just thinking about it.  I WAS proud of myself afterwards....but I'm not lining up to do that again anytime soon.  :)

This picture was taken after I completed the obstacle course.  I was pretty much drenched in sweat, and the ONLY reason I'm smiling is because I was on the ground again!  HA...(That is the obstacle course in the background.)

See how wet my hair is from sweating under the helmet?  It was very attractive.  :)

All in all, we had a great vacation.  It was a nice break from the day to day "regular" summer activities.  I'm glad we got to go!  Good times!