Neither of us had ever been to Park City and had no idea
what to expect other than a hotel, NOT a tent, NOT a lodge, NOT a camp, a
HYATT. This part excited me to no end and I headed straight to the gym as soon
as the car was unloaded to blow off some excess steam that driving 5 hours in
the car with the kids always seems to cause. Marisa took the kids to the pool
and even though we experienced a 40 degree temperature change in 24 hours (it
as 55 in Park City), the kids jumped right in. Marisa sat in the hot tub while
I finished up my workout.
After we all got back into the room, we went into Park City
to explore. Having never been here, we were amazed how much of it reminded us
of Squaw Valley, Truckee and Tahoe. There is a lot to do for kids and adults alike and next time we come we will stay for more than the 18 hours we have this trip and do the alpine slide, hikes, zipline, challenge courses, fishing, biking, etc... We definitely plan to come back sometime in the next year. There were a ton of great vacation homes to
look at, great restaurants and shopping.
We could have walked around for hours,
but it was dinnertime and as always on vacation, we’re doomed if we wait too
long to eat, so we set out for food. Eating has been a major event on this
trip. The kids want kid food, ALWAYS, and Marisa and I can only eat so much pub
food. So we have tried feeding them PB
and Nutella and then eating where we want with limited success; we have tried
taking them someplace quick (and cheap) and then eating what we want, and we
have sometimes just given up. Tonight was a combination of the three. We took
Jake and Faith to a Brazilian place (don’t ask me why), where Faith got a bagel
with cream cheese and Jake got noodles with butter and parmesan. We got some
beer and a shrimp appetizer to tide us over until our “good meal”, and Tanner
decided he wasn’t hungry and would eat wherever we ate and watched some World
Cup.
We wandered around and got shorter and shorter tempered as
we tried to find something to eat that wasn’t going to cost a truck payment and
finally ended up giving up. That meant
that we had to feed Tanner, so we stopped at a Burger King and got him a burger
and the other kids got icees for desert. So that just left us. We stopped and
got sushi and cheesecake from Whole Foods.
The whole process took about two plus hours. Not our best idea or
parenting moment. We tried to prepare better for breakfast tomorrow morning.
As we are beyond caring what they eat at this point we stopped at the 7-11 and
picked up bananas, cheese sticks and pop tarts. We’re getting a good breakfast
at the hotel, a workout and heading out on our last leg home tomorrow. I am planning on a good night sleep tonight
and the lights are going out as soon as I am done typing.
PS - After a good night's sleep, I got my Father's Day - workout as long as you want - present in and am posting this on our way out the door for our drive home. The only Father's Day present I asked for is that nobody touch anybody else in the car the whole way home. Wish us luck!
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