Snowbird!

About 8 miles up the canyon from our home are the ski resorts Snowbird and Alta. Snowbird has a lot of fun things going on in the summer as well. They have a zip line, an Alpine slide, a bounce house, hikes, and the tram ride. We went up on Thursday night and when we pulled into the parking lot there was a mommy and daddy moose drinking from the pond right in front of us. Literally, they were about 15 feet away. Shawn was able to get some great photos. I had to watch Cruz very closely because he wanted to go "pet" the moose. I don't think that would have been a pretty picture. After we watched the moose for a while we walked around to see what to do at Snowbird. It started to rain so they shut down all the kid activities. We could have taken the Tram up the mountain but we decided to come back another time when the weather was nicer.

We went back to Snowbird yesterday afternoon. We took the tram up with our jog stroller and backpack and walked down. The tram ride took us 12 minutes to get up and it took us right about 2 hours to get down. There is still snow up there, more than I had expected and we were having to partially ski down slopes in our running shoes. It was a pretty funny sight! Shawn would take Cruz down and they both were sliding down with Cruz between Daddy's legs. I had the jog stroller and was sliding behind that. It doesn't sound tricky, but let me tell you, it was a little sketchy at times. It was a really fun hike overall though, and beautiful scenery.

Cruz loving wearing daddy's hat!