Hanging at the Bird

July 17, 2008

We once again made our annual pilgrimage up to Snowbird. This time we convinced some of our family members to come up with us. When we all arrived on Saturday we took my sister and her family on a tour of Snowbird.

Our first stop was at the fish pond where we fed the fish.
After the fish pond we headed over to the new playground. We let the kids play there for awhile until it was time for dinner. After a wonderful meal we headed out for a nightime swim.
Since the kids couldn't touch they just hung out in their inflatables. The swimming pools up at Snowbird are pretty cool beacuse they are salt water. It makes floating really easy. After swimming we cleaned up the kids and let them watch a movie. Everyone finally went to bed about 10:00 pm.
The next day we started off our day with a hike. About half way through the hike the kids started to get tired. To keep them motivated Greg would race ahead and have them all hide.When my sister and I would come by they would jump out and scare us. At the end of the hike the kids found a really neat hut that someone had made. They spent a lot of time trying to fix it back up. After the hike we pawned all the kids off on my mother-in-law until it was time for my sister to go.
After my sister headed home we had a treasure hunt and then went swimming again. When my sister came back she brought Jeff and Ann up to have some fun with us. The next morning we had a wonderful breakfast and then started our day.
Forrest favorite was the Alpine slide.
Eliza loved the bungy trampoline. She did it so many times that the operaters knew her by sight and would start setting up the bungy cords before she would even get on.

On the bungy trampoline everyone was doing cool tricks. Jeff could do a triple, Greg could do a front flip and a back flip and Forrest even learned how to do a flip all by himself. After a fun filled day Valerie and the rest of the family headed home.

On Tuesday the kids slept until 10:00 am. Obviously we are starting to wear them out. Once every was up my mother-in-law took the kids on a scavenger hunt and then Forrest went fishing. He was very disappointed that he didn't catch anything, but since it was a catch and release pond I figured it would be pretty difficult. We had plans for the rest of the afternoon, but we could tell the kids were tired. After packing up we headed home. Of course on the way down the mountain Forrest started asking when we can go again.