Friday, June 21, 2013

A Grand Day Out on SLC's East Bench

The visitors from the desert have been keeping us well entertained. Daniel and Katy have been stopping by just about every evening to visit and to tell the boys some rousing bedtime stories. Gavin and Maren's niece, Hannon, came to Sunday dinner. She is going to Natal, Brasil on a mission and we feted her with a Brazilian dinner. Phillip has headed to Hawaii. And we had a splendid outing in SLC, visiting the Natural History Museum and its neighbor to the south, the Hogle Zoo.

 Daniel and Harry making their skin look young and healthy

 Hannon and Dickie checking out the map of Brazil

 The Youngs with their cousin (and niece)

 Katy Kathryn regaling the boys with tall tales

 PDT purchasing his Frontrunner ticket

 On board and ready to go

 SLC (and the airport) from the Provo Station is a dream come true

 A second batch of cookies for the second cousins'-snack-stand sale

 The fantastic Natural History Museum

 This fabulous place is home to Uncle Tony's collection

 The dinosaurs are awesome

 Such a great space

 Pumping water to recreate Lake Bonneville

 Magnificent Mount Olympus (second only to Timp IMHO)
from one of the museum terraces

 The "canyon" stairs 

 Ascension of the troops

 Maxwell with Uncle Tony's sun and moon masks

 SLC view from the museum

 Checking out some of Uncle Tony's collection

 Fantastic setting for a great building

 Hogle Zoo

 The Ensigns

 Lunch at the "Beastro"
 The baby elephant having a drink

 Across the gully to the Asian Highlands

 The kiddos took a spin on the carousel

 Lizzy and Embly

Dickie seeking shade at every opportunity

There are lots more plans so there will be more, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.

4 comments:

Courtney said...

How fun! The desert looks lovely and front runner does indeed seem like a dream.

Bill Hastings said...

Need to check out the museum. All looks good!

Anna said...

save some of the fun for us.

Maren said...

It's been a wonderful visit so far, looking forward to more!