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July 4, 2013 Thursday – La Caille
If you think La Caille looks like a Thomas Kincaid painting, you are right. It is a beautiful venue for a wedding with swans and peacocks and everything picturesque.
The temperature cooled to 90F in the late afternoon, and though we were sitting in the sun for the…
July 4, 2013 Thursday – Draper, Utah
Thank you for coming along with me on my vacation. These blog posts are dragging on and on…
Finally we are here in Draper, Utah, the reason why we are on this road trip.
July 4 is the date of the wedding of our good friends. I’ve known…
July 3, 2013 Wednesday – continued
We had planned our vacation to attend Wednesday evening worship at Calvary Chapel Salt Lake City. I always like to go to church when we’re on vacation. It’s a chance to worship in a different setting with different people. I enjoy meeting others in Christ. We carefully chose this church to attend because the time and place is right to pick up our daughter afterward from the airport to join us for the rest of the road trip.
July 3, 2013 Wednesday – Temple Square
The Temple Square is the Mecca of Mormonism. Anything you want to know about Mormonism you can find it in Temple Square, in any language you want. We saw docents in just about every major language – their name tags show the flag of the country of the language they speak.
July 2, 2013 Tuesday – Park City, UT
Grabbed a quick [heavy] breakfast (delicious quiche, egg croissant sandwich, and bagel sandwich, and splurged on a lemon cookie just to see what tastes like) at Paradise Bakery in Salt Lake City. Given the heat, I don’t like to waste the morning hours, so we take our breakfast to-go and ate it in the car during the 45 minutes drive to Park City, home of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
June 30, 2013 Sunday – Salt Lake City
Me: Is it always this hot this time of year in Salt Lake City?
Plaza Hotel concierge: No. It’s usually hot in the 90’s but it’s unusual that it’s over 100 this week.
Yes, another 105F+ day of our vacation.
6/30/2013 Sunday – Arches
The sign in the lobby of Far View Lodge said sunrise is at 5:48am, so I set my alarm at 5:30am.
I wake up at the sound of the alarm and stumble out to the balcony hoping to catch a glimpse of glory.
Lo and behold, it was hazy, due to an impending thunderstorm.
6/28/2013 Friday – Mesa Verde
The first thing we noticed about Far View Lodge is that there is no TV in the room. Woohoo! I’m excited!
We don’t have regular TV at home for a reason. We are not into pop culture. However, we do miss FoodNetwork, which is what we always watch when we stay in hotels. That’s not going to happen in Mesa Verde.
6/28/2013 Friday – Mesa Verde continued
Me: There’s the sign saying Mesa Verde National Park exit. Should I take it?
Husband: No. That’s not the route on the GPS. Follow the GPS.
20 minutes later, the GPS is telling me to turn down a narrow road behind some ranch house, and another turn that seems…
6/28/2013 Friday – Mesa Verde
The long drive on our road trip goes by fast when we are having fun. We were prepared with downloads of the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, sermons by Mike Erre, and a random playlist of songs from The Temptations to Jack Johnson to worship songs.