It would be a gross understatement to say Sydney was excited for her 8-year trip to Utah. Months before we left she wanted to talk about the trip and even start packing. She had watched all her sisters take off without her and now it was finally her turn.
I'd say about half of these trips are rote and half are unique- at the request of the girls. I always do stuff around Temple Square and BYU with each of them. But everything beyond that is meant to be especially for them and no one else. I think Liesel came up with this after we did the Alpine Coaster on her trip- she asked that we keep that memory for just the two of us and that I not do it with anyone else.
At the time, it wasn't a big deal but when Sydney's trip rolled around I felt like I had done pretty much everything Utah has to offer and I simply couldn't think of anything to make Sydney's trip special. I was stuck- so I called on a friend for help and in one conversation had a lovely list of where we wanted to stay and what we wanted to do. Sydney was thrilled.
Away we went.
The view out the window changed from this:
To this:
As we neared the airport it looked like this and even my heart started to race a bit:
We went from the lovely hall of flags at ORD to The Canyon art installation at SLC.
Good food and good company definitely started our trip off right!
With all the other girls, we've stayed at a Hampton- our hotel of choice when traveling. However, my friend had recommended the Zermatt in Midway. It was perfect. The pool was amazing, the room was charming and the location worked really well for us since we were going both north to SLC and south to Provo. Sydney loved it for all of that and the fact that none of her sisters had stayed there. She did facetime with them to show off the room and the pool. Eventually the exhaustion of travelling and the altitude overtook the novelty of it all and she fell fast asleep
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