PAPA: It's about time for Papa to take back the blog - cause we're coming to the end of our three wonderful weeks exploring this beautiful country with our grandkids.
Today, after an early wake up, we drove for 6-7 hours to an RV park just North of Salt Lake City, Cherry Hill. It is a resort (of sorts) and has a water park and adventure land as part of the park.
It took almost an hour to get the motor home into our assigned spot because it is so crowded here. On our first try, we couldn't make the corner to be able to get to our site. Cars were parked so close to the road and the motor homes on the corner hung out to far. We had to walk almost the entire park to even find a way to turn around. Eventually, we ended up backing the motor home over 100 feet into the pull-thru site.
As soon as we were set up, Evan and Anna took off for the water park. We were disappointed to find out that the water park/adventure land are all closed on Sunday. In fact, we have found that a lot of businesses that would normally be open are closed on Sunday. We figured it out pretty quickly that this is largely a Morman community and obviously, they very strictly observe the sabbath.
ANNA: Today was another big driving day. When we got up, we hit the road early from Zion to Salt Lake City. Zion is right by the Utah/ Arizona border… Salt Lake city is pretty much the northernmost city in Utah. Papa drove all of Utah in a day. It was a long ride, but we stopped at some gas stations along the way to break it up.
When we got to the very cramped Cherry Hill Campground we immediately hit the activities, because they would all be closed tomorrow. Evan climbed a climbing wall, we did some water slides and finished up with the lazy river. We had a blast!
We walked back to the RV for another great dinner by Mimi before all four of us heading to the pool just to hang out. Once we were all showered up, Papa, Evan and I walked over the ‘the gulch’ where a local band was playing live music. It was so much fun because they played everything from 80s to pop to country and rock. We even won a CD for being the farthest ones from home!
Tonight is our last night in the RV. *tear* Evan and I get to spend tomorrow with Mimi and Papa but our plane takes off at 12:15. No that is not noontime 12:15. Yes my dearest father scheduled us for a red eye flight. Thanks dad. :)
Sunday, August 21
We really slept in this morning. Until almost 9 o'clock.
After a very lazy start, we decided while we're here, we should at least see the Great Salt Lake. So we drove to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake State Park, which is an island (with a land bridge to it).
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| There were several of these fiberglass buffalo in the park painted all kinds of weird colors. We never figured out why. There is a large herd of buffalo on the island (which is very large), but we never saw them. |
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| There were actually some people swimming in the lake. All of the dark color next to the water and out about 40 feet in the water is flies. |
As much as we would have liked to have experienced the heavily laden salt water (which is up to 6 times as salty as the ocean), there was no way we were going to go through that fly infestation.
So we went back to the motor home and started packing up the kids for their trip home. Then we took off about 7 pm to see some of the "Temple" in downtown Salt Lake City (which we really didn't to get to see very much of), then to Denny's for supper and then the lllllloooooonnnnnngggg wait at the airport for the kids 12:15 takeoff.
By the time we returned to the motor home, we were really tired.
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