After 10 months, a visit to the hospital the day before and an aborted landing in Salt Lake City we finally arrived in Utah! It was only a short flight from Seattle and shortly after landing, we’d collected our car and were driving into Salt Lake City.
We checked into our lovely room at the Grand America and after a quick lie down, just to assess the quality of the bed, we set off for a mooch round downtown. It was only a couple of blocks from the hotel into the main downtown and we passed lots of old, interesting looking buildings and lots of nice looking bars and restaurants.
As we’d had such an energetic start to the day we decided to have lunch at an Italian bistro. Tracy had half a cow for her starter, the boys had pizza and we had some yummy bowls of pasta. Next stop was a quick walk round the mall to see if I could find some nice trainers to wear on my hikes round the national parks. Considering I have about fifteen pairs of trainers you would have thought I’d have packed some but I didn’t! Having failed to find any we left the lovely mall behind with its stream running through the middle of it and its Macy’s bridge and walked back to the hotel.
After another brief lie down it was down to the pool to enjoy some sunshine and have swim. The water was pretty cold but it didn’t stop us having a splash. Even though we were stuffed with food we had to order some chips and salsa just so Tracy could have a watermelon mojito and I could have a piña colada – they have some strange licensing laws in Utah!
When the pool closed at 6pm, we went upstairs and had a nice relax – it had been a tough day afterall. After watching some rubbish on the TV we went downstairs to the hotel toy shop (it was a posh hotel!) and then we had a drink in the bar. We had to order more food (this time a bowl of chips) so we could have a drink but the boys managed to dispose of them with out too many problems.
Next stop bed, so we were all ready for our drive down to Southern Utah tomorrow.