Salt Lake City Trip

This past weekend McKay and I were able to go to Salt Lake for General Conference.

You wanna know one of the best parts??

It was a KID FREE trip!  We haven't had one of those in a while, so it was very nice.

We dropped our kids off at McKay's brother's house in Logandale on Thursday afternoon and enjoyed the long quiet drive.

We had a nice quiet dinner before heading to our nice quiet hotel.

Are you starting to get the theme of the weekend?

Nice and quiet!! ;-)  It was great.

Friday we visited the Jordan temple, followed by 4 hours of our very first visit to Ikea.  

WOW.

Probably not the best place to go when we're buying a new house that I'd just love to remodel and refurnish.

Again, WOW.

Friday night we met up with our good friends Jake and Angie Rice.

They were students with us in Virginia our first year of law school, but then ditched us and transferred to Utah. ;-)

We ate at a place called The Training Table where you look through the menu and then call your order in with the phone on the table.  It was yummy and fun and right next door to the play we saw afterwards.  We walked over to the Hale Center Theatre and saw A Tale of Two Cities.

It was great.  Long (3 hours), but great.

After our late night we got up early and headed to General Conference.

It was nice weather (high 60's) which made the long walk enjoyable. 

Conference was great.

After conference we visited The Great Salt Lake.  

It was SUPER windy, but not cold, so we braved the winds and messed around for a couple hours.

McKay enjoyed drawing pictures in the sand.

Then Jake and McKay had jumping contests while Angie and I laughed and laughed.  

They both took a fall or two which resulted in more laughing from the girls.

Then McKay insisted in me taking this picture. ;-)

Later that evening we decided to hit up the bowling ally.

Only one problem, I was wearing flip flops...no socks.

So, we stopped in at the dollar store and I somehow convinced everyone to join me in buying beautiful socks for our outing.

Haha.  Totally felt like high school.

We spent the rest of the evening chatting in our hotel room until late, then said our good byes.

We woke up Sunday morning to this.

From 70 degrees to a couple inches of snow.  I guess we got to truly experience Salt Lake.

We watched the temperature rise to the 70's again as we pulled into Logandale to pick up our kids.  

They cried when we got there....because they didn't want to leave.

Who would want to leave when you get ride four wheelers, wagons, and horses all weekend??

 (Sydney's pretty sure we'll buy her one of these....like today.)

We somehow talked them into leaving, but not before promising to return in just a few days for the Clark County Fair!!

What a great weekend!