To Park City for Thomas

This past Memorial Day weekend, we ventured down to Park City, Utah.  The main purpose was for a Day Out With Thomas (DOWT), as in 'Thomas the Tank Engine' - the kids show.  While that part was a little disappointing, the weather was perfect, and the scenery and company were great.  No illnesses this trip!

Here are our good little travelers: Owen, the navigator, and Hadley, the unpredictable wildcard passenger.  H napped most of the way, except maybe the last hour or so.  Yea!  O kept asking if we were in Utah.

Somehow, I didn't take any pictures of Park City itself!  It's a very cute ski-town that definitely has some of that Hollywood money influx.  We met up with some other families from our town at Park City City Park the first night.  Yes, that was the actual name of the park!  Thomas was the next morning.

We had to drive down about 20 miles to Heber City to find Thomas.  

Whoever thought of this little traveling show must be a millionaire.  Lots of opportunities to spend your money on photos and trinkets with a few kid-friendly activities thrown in for good measure.  He's getting pretty good at writing his name!

Several families from our 'mom's group' made the journey, so it was fun to share the experience, at least. 

The actual train ride was 10 minutes out at a snails' pace and 10 minutes back in.  Just when we started to get out from people's backyards toward the pretty scenery, the train stopped and just reversed!  Owen was so disappointed, he was almost in tears.  We were all pretty bummed.  I mean, look at the beautiful photos on their website!  I thought we'd make it closer to the mountains.  :(

Luckily, we had more in store for the trip than just the DOWT.  On the way back north the next day, we headed over to do a short hike to Donut Falls.  Little did we know that half of Salt Lake City had the same idea for Memorial Day.  Also, we didn't really research the hike and missed a turn to the falls, so we ended up heading up a steep trail to the top of the falls, rather than the easy bottom-of-the-falls overlook.  It was a workout with the baby backpack and toddler-on-the-shoulders!

As it was, everyone needed a snack break by the time we made it to the end of the steep section.

Pressing on, we made it to the top of the falls!  You can just make out the 'donut' where the water falls through a hole in the rock near the top.

Lastly, we always have to eat some Chipotle when we are in Salt Lake, since that's the closest one to our house. (200 miles!)  Someone please open one here!  

See how happy it makes Owen?  :)