Our Week

Monday we went up to Snowbird and used a free tram pass I was given to see the fall colors. It was a pretty drive, and the girls had fun riding the aerial tram. The top was super windy, so they saw a few views and afterward just wanted to eat snacks in the warming shed until the next tram went down. Sigh. Oh well, at least it was free!
We hit the Farmer's Market on Tuesday. I love getting the fresh produce, and I love that there are markets not too far from us almost every day of the week!

I saw Hamlet on Thursday-- I'm volunteer ushering again this year at Pioneer Theatre. Hamlet was my least anticipated play of the season. Good, but long. The end was a surprise since I haven't revisited the play since sophomore History and Lit class at BYU. Yes, just about everyone dies in the end.

Friday we did a nice fall visit to Wheeler Farm, where the main attraction was sitting on the old farm equipment, not the animals who were all hiding due to the high temperatures.

Saturday was another fun day outside. We all headed to the SoJo races. I ran the 5K, Cora ran the kids race, and Kissie ran the marathon.

Here I am! The race was actually pretty easy for me since it was flat and I'm used to running the hills around here. No, it did not take me an hour and a half, the time clock is for the half marathoners who started coming in a bit after me. I ran it in 29.5 minutes, and maybe could have run faster had I not forgotten my running watch at home and had an inkling of my pace and distance! It was a lot of fun.
Cora has been asking to run in a race for months-- I think inspired by us watching Kissie run her marathons. Cora was so excited! She insisted on wearing these tall pink socks.
Here she is at the back of the group at the starting line. She was the smallest one by far!
Kevin ran with her for a little way to keep her company. Here she is going into the finish-- I loved that they let the little kids use the same finish line as the grown-up racers!
There she is at the finish. It was a half mile run. Later that afternoon she asked if she could run another race next week! We'll have to go do more running at our park. I think the end of race treats helped her enjoy it even more though. They had a ton of stuff-- icecream, fruit, chicken sandwiches, muffins, cookies. It was stocked!
Then we hung out at the park and waited for the marathoners to come along. Luke was a great sport and did so well in the stroller pretty much the whole time.
I don't have any pictures of Kissie finishing, but she did a great job too! It was SO HOT that day, and she finished a little after noon, really late in the day to be finishing a marathon. I think they had them start later because of possibly cooler fall weather. In Utah you just never know!

Today we went for a drive on the Alpine Loop after church. Yup, us and just about everyone else in Northern Utah. It was so crowded, we had to wait quite a while at the entrance and there was a lot of traffic on the road. But we saw some pretty scenery! We stopped at Cascade Springs, which I've only been to once (and that was 7 years ago when I was touring wildfires for my job-- so this was much more scenic). It was a fun place, and I'd love to go there again sometime-- with fewer crowds. Violet was tired and reclined in the stroller the whole time, Luke enjoyed people-watching from the Snugli, and Cora was a trooper walking a bunch in the heat-- no cooler mountain temps today! (Yes, Cora insisted on this outfit this afternoon. I only got to steer her a little bit, this is better than it could have been! I might have insisted more had I realized just how many people we would be seeing. Yes, I realize I should let go of wanting to decide what she wears when.)
We'll definitely have to visit again, maybe in June during the day midweek!