June to July 2014

The fun with the Young kids continued while their parents enjoyed Italy. Auntie Em kept them well entertained (many thanks!) with lemonade stands, picnics, swimming, Monte Bean Museum, BYU Creamery, and Sodalicious drinks. The Hastings arrived from Reno on Monday the 30th, and the Youngs arrived from Italy one day late on July 1. With that, the fun began in earnest.

 Uncle Pipppy is constructing a bike shed while his family

is in Hawaii

 The first cousins' lemonade stand

 At the Rec Center

 So delicious

 Shaved ice with the Soelberg cousins and Auntie Ann

 Sunday dinner: the best part of strawberry shortcake

is the whipped cream

 Three boys on one electronic device

 Bean Museum

 BYU Creamery

Picnic in the Park

Bea gets a hug

 FHE at Opa and Annie's

 As predicted, our Wymount home is now just a pile of rubble

 The first canal walk of the season

 Water is best

 Timp from the canal

 The walkers on BYU campus

 Relaxing in front of the JKB

 Perfect hill for rolling (except for the ants)

 Squaw Peak from campus

 Second lemonade stand, this time with the Hastings

 Another evening walk

 When your sandles break, you go back and get your Chucks

 Nope. This isn't an announcement

 Pile on Auntie Katy

 The canal again

Madonna of the Rock

The Forth is coming up next. That's all for now.

OXO

D.

We're Going to the Zoo, Zoo, Zoo; How About You, You, You?

When the Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point was slammed beyond reason, we headed to Hogle Zoo instead. Clever Auntie Em found buy-one-adult-get-one-kid-free coupons at Les Schwab. The zoo was a good choice. It was a fun day.

 Picnic first at Rotary Glen Park just east of the zoo

 All aboard!

 LT, HD, and FE

 The Dude with Auntie Em

 Drawn as if to a magnet

 Newly completed African Savanna

 Checking out the zebras from the covered terrace on the savanna

 Zebras are us

 That over there is often considered the place,
but today the zoo was the place

 The binkers brave as lions

 Now that's a lion

 Elephants doing their thing

 This is my favorite part of the zoo: Asian Highlands

 I've never been to real Asian highlands, but whoever designed this

part of the zoo, certainly has -- it's fantastic

 A lovely cool spot for some refreshment

 Ice cream anyone?

 KBT, binkers, Auntie Em

The pause that refreshes

 Emigration Creek flows through the zoo

 A spin on the carousel

 The Dude abides

Elephants of the African type

The misting fan felt like Monterey Bay

A great day. Hogle Zoo just gets better and better. That's all for now.

OXO

D.