Getaway, Day 3

We slept in a little more today. When we got up, we headed up to Park City Mountain Resort. We had breakfast there, and bought tickets to do the Alpine Coaster and the Alpine slide. We rode the Coaster first...

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It was WAYYYYYY fun. Then we rode the Alpine slide...which was pretty good. We left and went to the Olymic Park to redeem our Rain check on the zip line....We waited a long time in the sun on this day, and I got FRIED on my arms, but it was way fun. After our zip ride, we went to the outlets to pick up a couple more things we decided we wanted, then we headed home.

It was a really fun trip, and it was nice to have my mom all to myself for a couple of days.

Getaway, Day 2

We didn't rush on Thursday morning. After all, vacation means relaxing. After we woke up, we got ready, had breakfast, and headed up to the Olympic Sports Park. We bought our tickets to ride the Xtreme zip line and the Quicksilver slide, and walked down to the lift. We rode up...

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We decided to do the zip line first.

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Strapping in...

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I got some fun pics on the way down...

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We rode the lift back up, and went to do the Quicksilver slide.

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We got stuck behind a couple of kids who slowed down too much, so we didn't get the full effect. We decided to "bounce back", and do both rides again. We bought our bounce back passes, and headed back up. We wanted to do Quicksilver first...our first error in judgement. There was a minor accident on the track, so to follow protocol they shut the entire thing down..and the operator had already taken and torn our tickets, so no chance for a refund. We waited...and finally got down. It was a lot more fun the second time, we went full speed and didn't get stopped. We rode back up to ride the zip, but the line was suddenly long, and the storm clouds were rolling in...they put a "lightening hold" on the rides...we took cover in the ski jump building...and then the rain started POURING. We ended up riding a shuttle back down, and wandered the museum for awhile. Finally the rain lightened enough that we made a break for the car. We drove to a little outdoor shopping center...we would have liked to explore, but the rain made that impossible. We stopped at a great little bakery called Kneaders for a snack...YUM!!!! We went back to our hotel and relaxed, watched some TV, and I took a little nap.

We had been invited to a baby shower for my sister, thrown by her in-laws. It was in Salt Lake, and not to far of a drive, so we wanted to drive down. It was really fun...

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By the time we got back to Park City, it was getting late, so we decided to call it a night.

Getaway...Day 1

My mom and I took a little mini vacation this past week. We headed up to Park City for some shopping and fun...

We had a little slow start. When my mom came to pick me up, she noticed that one of her tires was low. We dropped by Les Schwab to get it checked out, and it had a nail in it...so we had to get the tire fixed. We were grateful we caught it before we headed up the canyon...

We arrived, grabbed some lunch, and headed to the Outlets. I got the kids some clothes, myself a wallet, sports bra, and a spatula (yes, I realize that's a little strange, but with all the baking I'm doing, I needed it). I also got to help my mom pick out some very cute new things....we had a great time. After we were done shopping, we thought we'd go check out the Olympic Sports park. Neither of us had been there, and we wanted to see what the activity prices were, as well as what was available. We saw a bunch of cool stuff...

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Skiers practicing jumping and their tricks, landing in the pool...
Then we spent almost an hour watching the preliminaries of a ski jumping competition...it was really cool to watch.

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This marmot wandered right into the middle of the ski jumping hill...right at the bottom where if he'd been hit, it probably would have killed him and injured the skier...thankfully he crossed without incident...

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A side view of the jump...it's amazing how much air they get.

After we were done watching, we went up to Park City Resort. We wandered a bit, ate excellent mexican at the Baja Cantina, and then decided to walk main street.

I was a little disappointed in Main street. Many of the cool stores I remember from years past are gone...and I didn't find anything special in my favorites of the remaining stores. After we walked main street, we headed back to turn in for the night....