Utah

Today, we woke up to the most amazing view! All around us were gorgeous mountains and fresh air. Ahh......

As we were checking out this morning, "B.G.," the receptionist at the front desk, congratulated us again on our marriage and honeymoon and (in her heavy Ukrainian accent) told us to bring our kids the next time we came back!

We hopped in the car and headed toward Salt Lake City, UT. Coming in to Utah was - again - AMAZING! The view was breath-taking - just like Colorado! We drove a good 200 miles and decided it was time to EAT!!! Before we took the exit for food, we saw an armadillo walking along the interstate, a family of prairie dogs watching the cars go by, and passed along a one-mile stretch of I-70W that had been adopted by the Society of Former Muggers. Really?! Society of Former Muggers? Hmmm......

We stopped in at the first restaurant we came across after pulling off of Hwy 191 in Helper, UT. It was called Pistol Pete's. Zac had a corndog with spicy curly fries and a chocolate malt and I had the best darn hamburger with spicy curly fries as well. I had a hamburger in Helper!

The 386-mile drive went pretty well. We finally made it in to Salt Lake City at around 4:30 p.m. Mountain Time and checked in to our hotel. We asked the concierge at the front desk about activities in the city tonight. She recommended the Utah Arts Festival - just a few blocks from our hotel. We dropped our stuff off in our room, freshened up a bit, and went down to the festival.

Wow! The festival was awesome! I will say that this city has some good-looking people. Everyone seemed to be friendly but not very polite, which is all right with me. People just seemed to do what they do. We were surrounded by all kinds of food. So, naturally, we got hungry again! Zac got a taco salad and I had the best taco called a Navajo Taco. Mmm......mmm......

We ate our food and waited for the Utah Premier Brass Band to take the stage. The first piece they played blew us away. Man, they were great! After the band played, we walked back to our hotel to rest.






Tomorrow, we head out to Reno, NV!