Loving these late storms, today was beautiful! We skied Alta.
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Spring skiing is always a little treacherous for me, slushy snow makes me squirrly. But the views are worth it on warm bluebird days. I skied Jupiter Bowl @PCMR for the first time yesterday – still a lot to check off my “to do” list in the last real month of ski season – WOW it’s flying by.
Check out just how miserable it was yesterday:
Skiing In The Summer
Did you know it was possible? Here in Park City, which you remember was home to some of the most exciting events in the 2002 Winter Olympics, we have events at Olympic Park. And for those of you that haven’t skied, and maybe some of you that have, it IS possible to ski in the summer!
How you ask? You fly into a pool.
We attended the Festival Of Flight at the Olympic Park this weekend and got to see former and possibly future Olympians ski down the ramps into the pool they use for training. They train in their normal gear, adding a life vest under their coat!
It was really amazing and we were so awestruck we didn’t take too many pictures – but here’s a taste so you get the idea.
For the record, we’re halfway through the non-ski season – can’t believe I thought I was a beach bum and here I am looking foward to snow!
Girls Night Out
Was a huge success last weekend! We got free sushi.
Twilight Concert Series
So I missed Modest Mouse last week and was a little sad. There was no way that I was going to miss this Thursday, the second Twilight Summer Concert at Pioneer Park. Many had heard that it was overcrowded and awful last week – but this week it was Girl Talk, for free, so I made MK set out super early.
We got to the HOT HOT HOT SLC by 5:30,and parked across the street from a main entrance. We looked around the park, ran and grabbed some food, and were back around 6:30. Plenty of time, plenty of room. Memory Tapes opened, there was a short break as the park continued to fill up, then Girl Talk took the stage.
He’s come a long way since the first SXSW show I saw. The fans still dance all over, but now there was a whole little act to go along with it. Speaking of long, he really needs to cut his hair. We took a bunch of silly pictures, including where we got home at 11 to get ready for the trip to the family reunion, and I STILL made vegetable lo mein extra water chestnuts by request as a thank you. MK does not like concerts. I’ve really got to find someone here who does.
As you can see in the pics, we stayed in the back-ish. Had a good view, but MK does not dance. So we were out of the fray, which we heard from one kid was like a mosh pit, and someone was running around bleeding. It was also an important day in my life because O.M.G. it was the first time I’ve ever felt O.L.D.
House Decorating!
MK’s Dad, brother and sister are going to be here soon. So we’ve been touching up a ton of little things on the house all week. It’s been a lot of work. No one likes going through their house pointing out what’s wrong with it, what they missed, what they did that isn’t so hot. Lots of paint retouching, hanging some art, cleaning mistakes up here and there. It can take time. But we did finally get around to some projects we’ve been putting off.
Mostly, it involved curtains. Curtains I swore I’d never put up, then got tricked into putting up. I’m glad I did, they look awesome. The master bedroom is SO almost done, same for the guest room. One or two more pieces of art.
Outside, MK raised the border on the flower bed in the front. As you can see in the pictures, that was pretty intense.
Deer Valley Hike
Here’s some pictures from our first uphill hike. Me, with the short legs and fat lady breathing, taking up the rear. The three tall guys made me look bad.
Deer Valley is a beautiful place to hike. The dogs loved running through the brush and the views were amazing. I totally burned enough calories for the fajita wrap I had at lunch at Windy Ridge! Hiking – to me – is walking in less attractive clothing. But good company to chat with made it fun. What I wonder now is if the exact same hike is less interesting the next time around.
Park Silly Market
Every Sunday in the spring and summer, Main Street hosts a little street fair with vendors and kids activities, food and shopping. The first Sunday also happened to be SB’s 4th birthday, and we got to go to the Market and celebrate her birthday with the family. She bought her own presents with a gift card and got a free fairy costume. It also happened to be about 40 outside. Brr. For the last three weeks, it’s been warm in the high 70s with one day in the week day that is ice cold.
The second Sunday was Father’s Day, and we got to join the B’s again, for lunch at Wasatch Brew Pub, a stroll down Main, and SB’s first pair of flip flops! We also had cake and wine after to celebrate TB’s birthday and BB’s first 2 kid Father’s Day. The B’s have a busy June!
Here’s a whole album of photos from the weekends. Turn around time is so much better when I’m taking the pictures!
Catalina
Three pictures of the same thing, the view when you arrive in Catalina. From my Droid.
Pictures! From My Droid!
The best thing so far about this phone is the quality of the photos it takes. They only come out bad if you’re not still (which is the case on many of these). I also am obsessed with the apps that change the color quality and type of photo the camera takes – since Tosh.0 taught me everything looks cooler through a fish-eye lens. Since it’s my phone, I have no excuse not getting this done sooner – other than I was also waiting to see what MK had on the cameras. But since we’re never going to see those, I spent the morning finding photos for you. Now I’m off to spend the afternoon ordering! tons! of! furniture! (FINALLY!)
The problem was figuring out how to get them off the phone. As a matter of fact, I’m so attached to this phone I’m hardly ever on my laptop anymore either. Took me long enough, since they are all nearly no longer relevant…
here’s a bunch of photo albums (@snapfish, so you might need to sign in. It’s free)!
First – pictures of the house from the winter until now.
Then – just a few pics of JB and I at Solitude. The trip was amazing but that’s one where MK has all the pics other than these, so I don’t even think I did a full blog post about it. We ran up and down Main St, skied all over, and shopped and decorated the house (that part I mentioned here). MB switched from snowboarder to skier amd MK taught JB to ski at the Canyons and Solitude. The snow was gerat and hanging with them is always awesome.
Also – pictures of SXSW 2010.
This album is a couple things with our friends in PC – a couple nights out, including the infamous Ten Pin Party, where MK got us kicked out of a BOWLING ALLEY for bowling the WHITE LIGHTNING, the weirdest band I’ve EVER seen (and I’ve seen some weird bands) and MH’s moving into her new condo party. This is by far the funnest craziest group of people in PC and I’m looking forward to many more parties and a few less blurry photos with them all.
And some random extras:
handsome hubby
Trivia Winnings
- JB’s pool; with dolphins
Last, but not least, we took technically four trips to Vegas in the last three weeks or so. Since these are just phone pics, I lumped them all together. One was to see some SD friends, one just us, one with our family for CH2’s 21st birthday, and then one just us again. Man I love it there. The album is entitled “VEGASES”.
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