Carrying On

The Salt Lake Valley from Ensign Peak

After Jen and the Kids went back to MD to finish the school year, I got lonely, so I started finding ways to distract myself. I went up Ensign peak in SLC and got this awesome pano of the valley. If you look at the horizon, you can see the point of the mountain, we live almost due east of that. Just a little south, but mostly east.

I also took the Truck out to see how the 4X4 would handle on some mountain terrain. Fording was fine, mud was fine, but rocks were a little more than the light truck tires could handle:

Upon replacing the tire, I then took the truck up Timpanogos canyon up to where the road closes for the winter. Then I hiked up a trail, past a bubbly brook, and got a good shot of Timpanogos from the back:

Bubbly Brook

Timpanogos peak from the other side

Good exercise and pretty vistas. Then the day came and our stuff arrived from MD. More on that in the next post: Move-in Day

The MD -> Utah Visit

So I went back to MD to pack up all our stuff and ship it to our new home. The whole crew came out to visit Utah over spring break.

While I was in MD, we went to the National Zoo in DC:

Michael got up close and personal with an Orangutan.

Fiona muscled her way in.

Katie was there to see the Baby panda, and Jen has some great pics of that, I'll have to get them from her and get them on the blog eventually.

So we got the house packed up and shipped off and we all flew to Utah.

While they were here, we tried to do lots and lots of fun things, here we are feeding fish at the bottom of Bridal Veil Falls in Provo canyon, the falls were pretty but as soon as they saw the fish, the falls were forgotten:

All in all I think they had a good time and we got to see most of their cousins at least once and spend some time with Grandma Z as well. It was great having them here and I didn't want them to go back, but alas, they eventually abandoned me and returned to their lives back in MD, albeit for only a few more months.

Squatting in my new residence.

These are a few images of the house. The new kitchen, and the front room. This is how I had it set up before our things arrived from MD.

This is the "bed" that I slept on for four months. Jen and the kids have it now as they are living the squatter life like I just finished doing.