Up Up and Away in Park City!

As this summer has been crazy for us and Sydney hadn't had a real vacation, I decided that we would go to Park City for a few days to do our school shopping and just spend some time together before she heads back to school.

I rented a three bedroom condo and invited my sisters and nieces to come spend a couple days with us. It was really great to get away and to have some girl bonding time.

On Monday Sydney and I went on a hot air baloon ride. It was amazing, breathtaking, peaceful, exhilarating, and more... We launched from the parking lot of the the shopping center next to our condo, went up 4,000 feet, floated across the valley and landed near Jordanelle. Here are some pics...


Laying the baloon out at the launch site... (it's over 90 feet tall)


Those are some big fans they use to blow up the baloon


Almost there (this is the top of the baloon see how small Sydney looks next to it)


Don't look down...


Is that blue sky I see? Yes it is, this is looking up at the top of baloon from inside the basket after we have landed and they are letting the air out of the baloon.


Safely back on the ground...what a ride!

On Tuesday, we all went and rode the Alping slide (well almost all Peggy said she would go if she could walk to the top of the mountain, but there was no way she was riding the ski lift...so she was the official picture taker)


Tuesday night we went to dinner at Cafe Rio (my favorite) and went to the movie Mama Mia I haven't laughed that much in a long time.

Wednesday we got ready to come home, but Sydney wanted to ride the coaster at the ski resort so we did that just before we left.


I want to thank everyone who came up and spend some time with us. I hope you all had fun, I know we did!