Park City Mini-Vacation

I know this is late- like two weeks late, but I finally have all the pictures from our last minute Park City Get-A-Way. I go kind of picture crazy sometimes, especially on vacations- but who could lame me with this cute family? I think there will be almost more pictures than words in this post.

The first night was a pretty laid back. We tested out the swimming pool and found a wireless connection to steal. The big highlight of the night was when we stopped at a restaurant called Ruth's Chris Steak House. We were in the mood for steak, so this sounded like a good plan. Ross and I have a pretty good system when we eat out. Neither of us are really big eaters, so we have fond that we can afford to go on more dates if we split our entre's. We can usually get away with a full steak dinner and stop for ice cream for under $20- usually more like $15 if we are getting something that isn't steak. This is kind of what we were expecting to do this time. We had no idea from the name of the place or from the sign that this was a five star gourmet restaurant. When we sat down and looked at the menu and the prices attached to the meals we couldn't pronounce we were a little stunned. Just as I was about to get up and walk out, the waiter came over and gave us the seasonal menu which included a couple's meal deal thing. We perused this as the waiter went over his whole schpeal of the soup and catch of the day and the wine list, and we watched some meals get delivered to other tables that were giving off the most delectable aromas! When he left, Ross looked at me, pointed at the meal deal menu, and said that he wanted to stay. We calculated it all out and found that if were super careful with the rest of our travel budget, we would be fine. We also found that by doing the little promotion thing, we were saving about $70 if we had ordered it all off the main menu. So, we stayed and enjoyed the most delicious and expensive meal I have ever had. I tried to not taste the guilt I was feeling as I enjoyed the food. I had not expected to ever eat at somewhere that fancy, especially not with the girls, and ESPECIALLY not in my jeans. Oh well! Next time Ross decides to splurge on a meal of that magnitude I had better have some warning and a dress!! We had ceasar salad, seafood gumbo, au-gratin potatoes, sweet potato casserole, 12 oz. new york cut steak, 8 oz. filet mignon, and some chocolate dessert of heavenly delight (and this is coming from someone who doesn't really like chocolate all that much!). It was grand, and it fed us both for two more meals, so I think we came out all right in the end.

We kicked off the next morning with a stroll down the Historic Main Street. I love things like this. My mom makes fun of me for being so drawn to the tourist traps- but hey- I'm a tourist, so they suit me just fine!! :) It was a little cold and windy, but it was sunny and beautiful. We were a little dissappointed to hear that some of the most popular restaurants and the Olympic Park were all closed for the season until the next weekend! DRAT! We still had a lot of fun though, and it probably saved us some money to have certain attractions closed. We also have a sneaky suspicion that the slowness of that weekend was what got us into that restaurant in our shabby state in the first place. We got some breakfast (there wasno free breakfast at the hotel) at Cows Ice Cream Parlor. This was such a cute little store. Everything was decked out in bovile fashion!

I especially liked the air ducts with the udders- too funny!

This is how Sara spent the entire morning. She just smiled and giggled and slept. I did not have to take her out of her carseat even once until we got back to the hotel. She is such a good baby!!

This was my favorite stop! It is a year-round Christmas shop- need I say more?

Emma tried to be a big helper, but she pretty much just got in my way. At least she was cute while she was in the way though!

For lunch we went to Loco Lizzard which was reccommended to us by a few different people. We were less than impressed though. It was good- but it definitely didn't live up to all the hype.

Their guacamole was pretty fantastic though.

Emma was being so cute- I just couldn't stop taking pictures. I took like 20 of her, so be grateful I narrowed it down for this post. It was hard!

After a nice drive around some of the slopes (GORGEOUS), we rented PS: I Love You from Red Box with a promo code and went swimming for the rest of the night.

The next day was Sunday, so after crashing a very predominantly senior Sacrament Meeting, we went back to the hotel and took full advantage of the pool.

We tried to take some family pictures by doing the whole holding it out and hope you are in the center thing- but the best one I got ended up like this, and I don't know how to flip it on blogger. Sorry Aunt Carrie!

Ross will be mad when he sees I posted this picture because he is shy about his man-boobs, but I think Sara is so pretty.

I found this little car at Smith's for $1.50. We definitely got our money's worth out of it. Emma LOVED it and gets mad now when I won't let her use it in the bath tub.

We went to dinner at a place called Squatters, and it lived up to its name! I think we were being punished for not saving all of our steak for Sunday like we should have.

After our horrid meal experience, we went on a beautiful walking trail that is meant to show off the pastoral landscape. It was a lot of fun, and so pretty! Emma was being a little stinker though and decided that she HAD to ride on the stroller with the baby. Also, note her stylish blue shoes that she INSISTED on wearing.

She was a good help keeping the baby entertained though.

We stopped at a pretty old barn at the side of the trail and explored it for awhile. Emma was our little groundhog whisperer and got these little guys to come quite close to us. I think they wanted some crackers or something. Emma kept calling them bunnies and was asking me why they weren't hopping.

Ross used his farm expertise to tell me what all the old dilapidated equipment was used for.

I tried to get soem family shots with the timer thing, but Emma was not wanting to sit still fro 15 whole seconds at a time. I guess that is a little much to ask of a two year old when there are 'bunnies' running around.

Running around the old barn wore her out enough that we got her bck to the hotel, and were able to make it almost half way through National Treasure II (we picked it up the night before) before she needed some more attention.

We left the next morning after checking out the outlet mall (not a great experience with two kids in tow) and headed to my Grandparent's house for their little Memorial Day Get-Together. I was hoping to be able to see more things than that (like Olympic things), but we had no idea that half the city shuts down when the slopes are out of commission and the film festival isn't near. Now we know though. It was a fun trip and we are hoping to go back for the FULL experience some time- with skis and all!