Father's Day Fun!

Since we sold our Audi, and said Audi could NOT make it up to Alta lodge without oil dripping, and causing the engine to smoke, I got the bright idea to celebrate the sale of the car by going to Alta lodge for an all you can eat brunch with the kids.  And it just so happened to land on Fathers day too. (BTW, we were completely honest to the buyers about the smoking issues, they were fine with it because the car was going to be mainly used for around town).  

Anyway, we were missing the mountains, and have not been there for probably 6 yrs. and thought it might be fun to take the kids up there for some delicious food and fun.  The really nice thing about that canyon is it feels like you are so far away from it all, but it really is actually not that far to drive to!  So it makes for a great little mini day vacation.  We got up to Alta Lodge around 10am for our reservations.  Liam wanted to eat inside, which was probably best since it was a bit breezy, but the view was still beautiful out the window.  Rowan actually did much better than Liam, which was a little surprising.  She especially loved the bran muffin they had, but was NOT a fan of the Pate which she thought was hummus, or the cheese cake.  She made the best disgusted faces we've seen!!  Liam did OK, but had a hard time listening and sitting still. 

After brunch we drove down to Snowbird, they had a festival going on, so there were lots of fun activities for the kids.  We took them down the Alpine slide for the first time.  And after that we let them play on the bounce house for almost an hour.  We had to bribe them with ice-cream to get off!  We didn't find any ice-cream, but did find some shaved ice, which they really liked.  Mike did find an ice-cream shop in one of the buildings when he took Liam to the bathroom, so next time we will know!  We were only up there 4 hrs. but we totally wore the kids out, and ourselves.  But we ALL had a really great day!