Park City With Greg and Kathryn

Kathryn and I were able to get away for a night to a bed and breakfast place in Park City. We had stayed at the Woodside Inn a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it so Kathryn decided that we should stay there again. We highly recommend the Woodside Inn!

This trip was originally planned for mid-March but kids got sick and we were not about to pawn off our children on my sister and her family with them being sick. It was good that we didn't go as that was the weekend that Calissa was born and died.

So our new weekend came at a good time. We had dinner at a nice local place off Main Street and then took the free shuttle over to Main Street. Our impression of Main Street in April - not impressed at all. Over half of the stores and restraunts were closed for "Spring Break" and we wandered through some art galleries, trinket shops, and clothes stores. Mostly it was a nice walk after a dinner of almond-encrusted trout and teriyaki salmon.

The next day we went to the outlet stores and we were about 30 minutes in when the power went out in ALL of the stores. I have never seen an area empty so quickly. Some stores tried to stay open but many of them just locked their doors and posted a sign that said they will open when the power comes back on. We wandered for about an hour but left after learning it wouldn't come on anytime soon.

The two pictures are of Kathryn and a bear on a park bench on Main Street, then of me discovering the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the side of the bed. I saw it when I first entered the room but didn't realize what it was until Kathryn started playing with it - I told her "Don't touch that, it says 'Do Not Disturb'". Needless to say she had a pretty good laugh at my expense.

Many thanks to Chris and Mindy who stayed with the childrens as we were out.

Bus Load of WHOA ! ! !

There I was this morning, reading my novel on the bus as we approached Salt Lake. We started on the overpass that goes over I-15 onto 600 South when suddenly our bus driver slams on his brakes and the bus starts to go sideways. This is what I see -


There was only a 6 inch concrete barricade between my bus and falling to the highway below and I seriously thought we were going over the edge. Luckily the bus skidded to a halt about 6 inches away from the barricade and I swallowed my heart back into my chest. The bus had just been in an accident.

Since I was at the back on the left side, I couldn't see the accident as it was on the right front side. But the emergency vehicles were all out and we sat there for about 1 hour. In waiting for the bus to get going again (big bus, indestructable apparently) I saw 4 other accidents within about a 2 mile vicinity.


We had some snow in the valley last night and there were some nasty patches of black ice. The car in front of us must have hit some and slid. I have had lots of other moments on the bus but never a scary moment like that.

Lauren at the U

A few weeks ago Lauren and I went on her field trip to the University of Utah's Natural History Museum. We saw frogs, big bugs, dinosaur bones, stuffed animals, butterflies, gems, and Indian artifacts. We also saw typical U students - hats on sideways, flip flops in March, that faraway glassy stare of Ute scholars, women with unshaven legs - you know what I mean. It was more than a Cougar could handle . . . I felt like I needed to take a long shower. :) Here is Lauren eating her lunch.

No Watches in the Temple

My blog consultant tells me that I need to write more frequent but shorter posts so that is what I will attempt to do. Since I came home from my mission I haven't worn my watch to the temple - I have considered the temple timeless and eternal. Then I saw this great article that articulates some great reasons to not wear your watch in the temple.

Link to it here.