Josh's brother, J.J. and his wife Katie called us Friday morning to see if we wanted to go to Park City for the weekend. It was definately a last minute planned mini vacation but we had a lot of fun.
We got a pretty good deal on our hotel room and even got the second night stay for free so we were excited about that. Max was so excited to explore the hotel room and to sleep on his "little bed," which was just his old crib mattress that we had brought for him to sleep on. Our hotel room was more like a loft with the bedroom being upstairs. It also had a small kitchen in it so it was pretty nice.
We went to Heber City to take Max for a ride on the Heber Valley Railroad. Max was so excited and for those of you who know him, trains are his absolute favorite thing in the whole world. He kept asking us if we were going to ride the Polar express because he just loves that movie since it is about a train.
We were able to ride at the front of the train in a car that was open to the outside. It was nice to sit back and enjoy the beautiful outdoors. After we got to the halfway mark we all enjoyed a yummy ice cream bar and rode the remainder of the way inside. I think both Max, and baby Kinzlie (J.J. and Katie's baby) were much happier indoors since the whistle blew every time we went through a railroad crossing and it was extremely loud being outside.
The conductor came and sat in the same car as us on the ride back to the train station. When Max saw him he yelled "conductor, we need to
stop the train, the boy wants to get on." This is also from the movie. J.J. and Katie thought it would be funny to take advantage of the fact that my son is an extremely outgoing child and will talk to anyone. They kept telling him to yell CONDUCTOR really loudly. Thanks guys, it's not embarassing when it's someone else's kid, but I will definately remember this for when Kinzlie is 3!Here are just a few pictures of our little adventure.
Max is showing off his ticket to ride the train in the picture above. He just loves to pretend that he's the train conductor and that he needs to go around and punch everyone's tickets (like on Polar Express). He'll tell you that "this ticket is non-transferbable," it's really cute. He was thrilled just to get the ticket.
The next day we went to the Alpine Resort and we all went for a ride (minus Kinzlie of course) down the Alpine slide. J.J., Josh and Max took the first ride and when they came back Katie and I went with Max for his second time. It was a lot of fun. On the way up the mountain, Max kept telling Katie and I that "it's only a little bit scary." It was so cute that he was trying to help us to not be scared. He had so much fun, we all did.
We also made time on our trip for Josh and J.J. to go golfing while Katie and I packed up our kids and did what we do best, we went shopping. It's funny because the only stores we even went into were the children's clothing stores. I got some great deals on some clothes for Max and Katie got some really cute clothes for Kinz.All in all this was a really fun weekend getaway. Josh and I have had some trials that we've been going through over the past year and we definately needed this fun little vacation. Thanks guys for inviting us!
Just a side note, I'm not exactly sure how to get rid of all the extra space that is always on the bottom of my posts. It's extremely annoying so if anyone can help me out with this, I'd really appreciate it. This post also has some extra space in it when it didn't show up while writing it so I'm sorry for that too. Again, any help on this is appreciated.
