Vacation Update

My Mom and the kids have been checking this blog everyday in search of new pictures from our trip. We have been quite busy the last couple of days. So Isaac and Julia.... this is for you!!

Tuesday Gabe and I hiked up a mountain, about a 4 hour hike up and back. It was windy and cold, but I have never had more fun hiking. Gabe and I really enjoy the outdoors and to be able to get to the top of a mountain (smallish mountain of course - but still quite an accomplishment) was wonderfully fun.

Then Tuesday night Gabe and I went out on a date together. We went ice skating and then dinner out on Main Street. Ice skating was so much fun with Gabe. We laughed non-stop at each other. Hiking and Ice skating in one day really did a number on our bodies. The soreness started to set in that night.

Yesterday, we got up REALLY early and drove 5 hours South to Moab and the Arches National Park. We hiked up to the very famous arch called the Delicate Arch. I am sure most of you have seen pictures of this Arch. (Let me just insert this..... NOTHING can stop Tarah, not even a broken foot. She,with the help of Jake, hiked the entire trail which was pretty strenuous at times. Pretty impressive!!) Words cannot describe the beauty that we saw yesterday. Our cameras couldn't even come close the capturing that beauty. We saw most of the wonders at Arches National Park and ended our day watching the sun set from the Double Arch, gorgeous. We didn't even leave Moab until 9pm and rolled in here completely exhausted at 1:30 am. We are a wee bit tired today.

But alas, there is more to see and do. This morning we went back to Olympic Park to see the ski jumpers practice, then we intended to walk up to the top of the bobsled run just to have a peak and found out they were actually running a training camp. We saw a number of athletes run the skeleton and the bobsleds. WOW! We were able to be right up next to the track, so close that we could feel the wind off them as they flew by. They were going around 75 mph. Just watching gave us an adrenaline rush. Gabe and I hiked it all the way up to the top to see the start and even got to chat with some of the athletes. There were teams there from around the world. It would be neat to see them in the Olympics in a few years. It was such a neat opportunity.

Tonight we are heading to Salt Lake City to catch a Utah Jazz game. Fun, Fun!! Again, I apologize for the low quality pictures. These are from Gabe's phone. Go to Jake's blog for better pictures. Enjoy!!

Tarah and I sitting in a bobsled in the Alf Engen Museum


Gabe and I hiking - see the pretty mountains?!


View from the top (this pic was taken from the mountains behind the place we are staying)


Historic Main Street, Park City

Silly Moose

Ice Skating

Delicate Arch

Double Arch

Isaac and Julia: I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. I THOUGHT OF YOU BOTH LAST NIGHT AS I LOOKED OUT AT A SKY FULL OF STARS. YOU ARE BOTH SO PRECIOUS TO ME AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU BOTH IN A FEW DAYS!!