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Visiting Salt Lake City

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By marydalene
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Jenny and Nina flew in from New York to visit family this past week, and Janet drove up from Texas. It has been fun to spend time with them and do activities together.

One of the activities we did while Janet, Nina and Jenny were in town was to visit Salt Lake City. The original plan was to go to Hogle Zoo and then meet up with the Robertsons and Grandma Cowles for dinner, but after looking at the weather forecast (and the looming rain clouds), alternative plans were made.

We met up with the John Lawrences, Julianne and Austin, and Jenny, Nina and Janet at Fat Cats bowling alley in Salt Lake Valley. It was quite a bit of fun to go bowling. I haven’t been in a long time. I managed to score a 102, which was tied for first with Jenny. That shows the caliber of bowlers we all were. Sarah scored an 87, mostly with the help of bumpers and the bowling ramp they have for toddlers. Timothy and Jared were awesome and tied for last with 36. We brought a camera to take pictures and then somehow managed to leave it in the car and didn’t take a single picture. Oops.

Sometime during our bowling session, it started to rain. We took advantage of the indoor playground after our set was finished and the kids had a blast playing games and running around while we waited for the rain to subside.

When the sun came out again, we headed up to Temple Square and walked around briefly before walking through City Creek on our way to dinner with the Robertsons. It was a fun trip, if brief. I would like to go again sometime when we have more time.

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This is all of the cousins who came with us except for Nina, who was over here,

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playing with Molly in her stroller,

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and Ryan, who hung out with Dad.

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It’s amazing to me to see how kids will entertain themselves when in a large group. They just start playing games and having fun.

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Sarah wanted to touch the water in the fountains at City Creek. It was fun to see her reactions, and her grin, after she actually did. She’s so cute.

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