The End of June

After the wedding festivities were finished and the happy couple was off on a mini honeymoon, we had an outing or two. Clara accompanied Pop Pop and Grammy to Ikea where we ran a couple of errands for Katy. Lunch at Ikea is always a treat and sharing it with Baby Goat Cheese made it even better.

 Clara looking bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

 Lunch with a view of the Ikea parking lot

 Clara loves her some chicken tenders

The following day most of the troops headed to Park City for some mountain fun. Maren, Gavin, and Rob rode the zip line and were thrilled. Tucker and Anders rode the kids' zip line and were also thrilled. Everyone rode the Alpine Slide and most were thrilled again. The most thrilling ride of the day, however, was the Mountain Coaster. It was excellent, possibly even awesome. Some discovered they LOVE coasters and (almost) everyone is now psyched for Disneyland in September. (Thanks to Anna for several of these photos.)

 Park City and the Alpine Slide

 The Hastings boys in flight

Anders and Tucker approve of the zip line 

The troops waiting for the lift

Harry, Maren, Tucker, and Finn 

Dragging our sleds behind us at the top

Rob and Clara made a safe landing... 

 as did Gavin and Beck

 Ready to enter the line for the Mountain Coaster

 Anders was my partner in our coaster adventure

So fun!

YouTube video of the Mountain Coaster

Some had frozen chocolate-covered bananas at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory, but most of us saved ourselves for Mexican dinner at Tarahumara in Midway. It is one of Colton's favorites, and it was really good.

 The binkers waiting for their supper to be served

 Tarahumara has HUGE salsa bar and we tried several

Beck thought it was a pretty great day (as did we all)

There are still posts pending for the 4th of July. This, however, is all for now.

OXO

D.