Last day of vacay

Our real last day of vacation was spent enjoying the town of Park City. We walked around and looked at  stores, had lunch at a local brewery and then Karli and I headed to the St. Regis for some pool time. PC was very good to us. We loved the house, loved the people, and most of all loved spending time with family.If anyone out there is headed to Park City, we can't recommend this house enough. We found it through VRBO, people who own the house were great and we so enjoyed their home. You can find their info here. It's hard to imagine that we have to wait another 2 years to do it again....

 They had this amazing red moss in this little stream that cuts through downtown.

 Out and about...

 Lunch at the brewery

 The many faces of L.. this one she knew I was taking a picture. The next few she had no  idea her dad was snapping pictures....

 relaxing at the St. Regis 
 Nana and Papa got the kids these adorable bibs...

Come on ride the train

On Thursday of our Park City vacation we went on a train ride. I was completely convinced that L would love this more than life. She is in love with trains and adores going to the choo choo market every Thursday. Mom, Dad, Uncle Marty and Laura joined us for a three hour tour on the Heber train....

There was this adorable kids train in front of the station. L loved it!

 We got to get up on the front...

 She even got to drive the train

 Uncle Marty did too!

 Here we are ready to roll.

 Then the train started.. and it honked it's horn at every passing cow and L completely freaked on us... on top of it the train was robbed by some serious outlaws. Nana was accused of taking something....

 So this is what L did for most of the train ride. She rode in our laps with her ears plugged.

 And she missed seeing the scenic landscape..

 After 2 hours or so, she started to warm up (this is so much better than before)

So overall it was a pretty horrible trip. Our kiddo was miserable, we were pretty miserable and after the nose incident we thought we were doing something fun for her. Guess we've learned a lesson that our kid does not do loud noises.

Bike ride and a Starfish

On Wednesday, Karli, Jason, Cory, the kids and I rented bikes. We had this idea that we would ride forever. Talan was not feeling well, so the thought of being cooped up in a little cage did not agree with him. So after a failed attempt we headed back and dropped Karli and Talan off.

We managed to get a cute shot before Talan decided he hated bike rides...

 So Jason, Cory, L and I headed out for a ride. We went to the historic PC farmhouse

 And found this really cool park

 Headed home back, by the cool farm house

 During nap Cory and I headed out for a date

 We went to a distillery

 And for a ride up to the top of the mountain

 While we were there, there was a huge fire just outside of PC. Here are some shots of it.

 So here is where the Starfish comes in... On Monday night (it is now Wed) L took a bite of a starfish stress toy and shoved it up her nose. We tried to get it out, traumatizing our child and then decided to wait 48 hours and see if it would dislodge itself. The starfish as it is made of rubber like material did not come out easily. So on Wed we took her to Urgent care for starfish removal. It was traumatic for all, but the starfish came out. What would be a Carlyle vacation without a trip to an urgent care or Emergency room?

 L and Cory in the hot tub right after Starfish removal... here is a picture of the starfish piece..

Olympic Training Park

On Tuesday, we headed to the Olympic training park. We didn't know what to expect and found that there was something for us all to enjoy...

 When we first got there they were practicing ski jumping.. into a pool. It was amazing to see and L was entranced.

 Talan liked it too..

 Then we went into the Olympic museum

 A certain someone picks up on things very quickly... this frightens me..

 We carried the torch

 There is someone actually flying down that hill..

 We headed back up to sled down the mountain.

 Here was the route (in black)

 There was a wait, so L played in the dirt

 And then we were off

 Everyone loved it!

 Sorry Marty.. but I cut off your head :)

 We got to get a ride back up the hill

 Going up!