Dinosaur Park and The Races

My Sister and nephews came up to visit a couple weeks ago. I had just gotten through with talking to a lady on my airplane. She said that she just took her little kids to the Dinosaur park in Ogden. The kids couldn't stop talking about it, even though I only understood half of what they said. I got excited and when I got off the plane I called my dad and had him look it up and convinced him to take us all the next day. I felt like a little kid again.

There were animated Dinosaurs, Rocks and Petrified wood. They had an entire section of fossils and Complete Skeletons. They had Allosaurus, T-Rex, 3 horns and even a Wooly Mammoth.

We soon found ourselves wandering outside in a garden area that had huge statues of Dinosaurs throughout.

Of course I think the boys favorite were the slides and jungle jim sets shaped like Dino's. They also had a little area where you could dig for Dino bones.

I'm so glad we went there. I didn't even know it was there and wonder if it was when i was a kid.

After that I went back to Salt Lake and out to Rocky Mountain Raceway.

There were car races going on. I'd never been to races, but a bunch of my friends went. I also went 2 days later with my cousin Brett.

I had a great time. Some of my favorites were these things called figure 8's where the cars race in a figure 8 and almost hit each other and Trailer Races...well it was more like a demolition derby but with trailers.

I Can't wait to do that again. Sad thing is I have to wait till next summer. Oh well It's worth the wait.

Cubs game and Ang's Wedding

So at the end of last month I was able to go to Chicago and visit that wonderful city with my old roomie from there. She picked me up from the airport and we went directly to Wrigley field and a Cubs game. It was so much fun. They played the mets and won!! I love going to games they win! Chelsea did have a little scare. We went to Starbucks after for cocoa to let the trafic settle down and she left her camera. It cost us a lot of money because we got off the bus took another bus back thankfully found her camera which has the bulk of our pictures that I still need to get from her and then took another bus back. When we got back Chelsea had received a parking ticket for 60 bucks. Sad thing was is they gave it to her 5 minutes before we got to the car.

We stayed out at my aunts house in Naperville that night. She took us around downtown Naperville ate Chicago style pizza watch Psych and talked.
The next day we got up a little to late and drove up to Sheboygan Falls Wisconsin to our friend Angela's wedding. We were late because the roads around there are hopelessly and gloriously confusing. Chelsea refused to go into the church because the bride already walked down the isle. I on the other hand didn't care. So I went in and watched them get married. It was a nice ceremony.

After we should have asked for directions, but Chelsea decided it was a good idea just to fallow everyone to where the reception was. That was a bad Idea. The car we fallowed wasn't going to the reception. We fallowed them on a wild goose chase. They finally noticed we were fallowing them and pulled over. I got out and asked them how to get to the reception. They laughed at the comedy of the situation and gave us directions.

We finally made it. It was so funny. I'm glad we made it. The reception was the only time we really got to talk to Angela and it was only for a second.

They had food and when the dancing started the wedding party came out in sailor hats and life vests.Her honey is in the coast guard. It was entertaining. Well to soon we had to head back to Chicago. We got there really late and I had to wake up really early for my flight the next morning. I was really tired but it was worth it.

Draper Days and Thanksgiving Point!!

I was able to spend Draper Days with my friend Shaun and her sister. We walked around and got to sit and enjoy the fireworks.

Little bit later my mom and I were able to go to The Oquirrh Temple Open house and see that beautiful Structure.

Afterwords we headed over to Thanksgiving point enjoy the buildings, eat at a really good little resturant and go to the gardens. I love the beautiful flowers there.

I'm glad my mom got to come and spend a couple days with me.

A BBQ and Harry Potter

So my Sister and Nephews came down in July for the family reunion that I was unable to go to, but I was able to see them.

We had a little BBQ in the back yard and had a great time.

Later Lisa and i were able to go down to my house and go to a early showing of Harry Potter 6. It was so much fun. I had lots of friends who went to it as well. We dressed up and had a great time. I wish Lisa and I could do more fun stuff together like that. To bad she lives so far away.

Trip to NYC and CHI- TOWN

At the begging of the Month my friend Kelly was visiting from Australia. She really wanted to go to New York City. She had never been so I gave her a buddy pass and we headed off on our adventure and the midnight red eye flight.

I really didn't think that we were going to get on, but when we did, I called my dad at midnight and had him book us a hotel room. I told him which one though, so he didn't have to go searching for a good deal.

I got to sit in first class on the way over and was not very smart. I watched a movie going over. I couldn't pull myself away. I finally got about 2 hours of interrupted sleep before we landed in JFK. We then started out. I was very glad that I knew the way and was just able to go instead of like last time, when I wandered around and had to ask everyone where to go.

Our hotel was very easy to get to and I rather liked it. The lobby was bright and colorful, the hallways were dark, but colorful and the rooms were small but clean and air-conditioned. That was my favorite part. We took a quick nap, before heading downtown.

We first went to the Brooklyn Bridge. It was fun to walk most of the way across it and get some better views.

We then walked through lower Manhattan, through the St Paul’s Church, saw Alexander Hamilton’s grave, we walked passed Wall street and got a picture of the Big Bull and saw the ground zero before walking down through Battery Park to buy our tickets for the Statue of Liberty.

The lines were crazy. We stood in Line for over an Hour just to make it to the screening center. The ferry was way over crowded, but at least it was a nice clear day to have a nice walk around Liberty Island. After that we took a train up to Times Square to eat some pizza.

We walked around looking at all the lights and made a stop in Toys R Us to see the Giant Ferris Wheel inside and the little less than Life Size T-Rex and other toys. After that we went over to Central Park to enjoy the peace and quiet and the pretty views of the buildings.
One thing that really shocked me were all the Piles of Garbage that lined the streets at night. The heat of the day didn't help the smell of the bags. It kind of helped it to smolder. It was kind of interesting. It made it so deep breathing was not recommended.

We soon had to go back to the Hotel to change and accidently take a nap. We then quickly left to go eat at a little open door pub down the street. It was great food and not to spendy. We then had to go see Times Square at night. I love Times Square. It truly is one of my favorite places on earth. I love the lights and the Atmosphere.

I was very grateful when sleep finally came. We planned to get up early but it didn't happen. We only had time to go up to the temple. The man in the front let us go into the front doors. I felt really underdressed to do that, but they were really nice. We then went up the 1 train line a ways to Tom's Restaurant. They used the outside as the Restaurant in Seinfeld.

We then went back a couple streets to see the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It is one of the biggest in the world. It was really beautiful and I wish I would have had more time and a better camera so I could enjoy the inside of it.

here is another view of the inside

After that we walked through a corner of Central Parks North West side before heading back down to 5th avenue getting food and heading to the airport.

The airport was a fiasco. We tried to get on a flight and it didn't work. The rest of the flights looked terrible for the next two days. I had to make a decision so I decided to take us to Chicago! It would help us out, because we would have a free place to stay, the flights looked better and there was another city that Kelly said she had visited.

We both got first class, on a little plane over to Chicago and soon got on the blue line headed to my friend Celeste's house. We all sat to chat for awhile. Kelly was amazed at the Fireflies in the backyard. We sat there playing with them and trying to take pictures of them forever.

Finally we went downtown and walked around the streets. We went up inside the John Hancock building pretending to get drinks, so we didn't have to pay. The view was amazing at night. We then went and ordered a Pizza and got Kelly some fries. Because it was so late, we had to take the pizza to go. We ate it over east of Michigan Ave buy the NBC building in a little park.

It was so fun, to sit enjoy friends company and the lights of the city. After that we walked around by the Chicago river and headed back home.

We stayed up all night talking, before leaving really early to get flight stuff figured out.

It took a couple of tries and I didn't think we were going to make it, but after racking up a lot of airport appreciation time we finally did. I was stressed about all the flights, but the trip was really fun and I'm glad we were able to go.

Tulip Festival

My mom and I love flowers. So a little while ago I took her to Thanksgiving point and we had a day at the Tulip Festival there. It was when It was just starting to get warm in the spring time. It was so beautiful.

We started to take a tour to learn all about the flowers and the Garden, but they were walking way to quickly and we didn't have time to enjoy everything and take the millions of pictures we like to take, so we broke off and slowly walked through the flowers and each of the different gardens, just chatting and enjoying the scenery.

I had know Idea that there were so many different types of Tulips.

Each year after the Tulip festival at Thanksgiving point they dig up all the bulbs and sale them. I wanted to by some but you don't know what kind you are getting. I want, what I want,so I decided that was a no go.

We last ended up at this big rock waterfall with little food vendors.

I got this Chimney European pastry that was kinda interesting. We then sat and ate at the Cafe out on the Patio. It was a great day out with mom!

Martin and San Diego

So my friend Martin from Switzerland moved to San Diego for a few months. He was in an intense English program in La Jolla. One of my trips ended in Ontario and so I decided to rent a car after my trip and drive down to visit him. It was so much fun and only slightly tragic.

The fun parts were the first day we went to the beach and played sand volley ball and later that night headed on over to the San Diego Temple. It was so beautiful at night. The next day I drove all around San Diego while Martin was in class taking tons of pictures of all the sights.

The Tragic part of the trip came when I picked Martin up and we went on a walk along La Jolla shores beach. We were walking in the water and sadly my camera fell out. I never even new that it happened until it was lost. All those pictures and memories lost. At least I downloaded a couple before I lost it. I guess I'll have to do as the people in the old days did. Just remember it.

Later that night we went out to eat with a bunch of his swiss friends. We lost them in downtown and spent 30 minutes driving all over trying to find them. When we did it was in little italy and a wonderful little resaurant. It was great fun except I couldn't understand half of what they were saying. Swiss German is messed up! Anyway we left really late and I had to drive straight back up to Ontario, got 1 hour of sleep before I had to head off on a plane back to Utah. Oh well, It was worth it!