4th of July Weekend

So since we missed our weekend in Salt Lake last weekend, we were able to get away for a three day weekend over the fourth of July. Friday we drove to Orem to see an Orem Owlz game. It was a beautiful night for baseball and the park was pretty nice. It was a little like New Jersey Cardinals in that it was about a 2 inning line for concessions (and another college campus, so no beer) but the game was fun. And afterwards... fireworks!



















Saturday we spent the day in Salt Lake City. It is a lovely city and we saw the State Capitol and the Mormon Temple. We were politely asked to leave Temple square with the dogs, but luckily we had walked the entire plaza by the time they noticed us and decided to ask us to leave. We could have carried the pups, but it was a hot day and they weren't really interested in the Temple anyway.




They were much more interested in the park half a block away where they could tromp around in the creek. We had lunch at a lovely cafe and then found a sports bar (can you believe it! In Utah!! The Zion curtain has definitely come down. Saturday night it was once again time for Baseball. We saw a Salt Lake City Bees game. They had someone there with a live Bald Eagle - what's more patriotic for the 4th than someone singing the national anthem with an eagle sitting next to him! It was an exciting game, tied for most of the evening, but in the end, the Bees were not able to pull it out. After the game (which ended at 11:30!) you guessed it; more fireworks! This was a much better show than the Owlz. By the time we got out of the game the trains were no longer running, so we had to walk back to the hotel, but it was a beautiful night and a very nice walk.





For Pete's last week here in Utah, we have been madly seeing shows - Monday afternoon we saw a preview of Foxfire, Monday night Pete saw the opening of my show. Tuesday night we saw Henry V and this afternoon we saw a preview of Secret Garden. With all of that under our belts, we treated ourselves to a nice dinner at Milt's steak house about half way up the mountain to Cedar Breaks. After dinner, we continued up the mountain to Sunset point and watched the sunset. I think Pete used 3 rolls of film in addition to the 50 or so pictures he took with his digital camera! It was a beautiful sunset. Afterwards... back down the mountain and Wednesday night Eucher. We actually Won a game this week!!

St. George Dog Park

Even puppies need a little vacation! Since we were stuck staying close to home in case I needed to be in rehearsal, we looked for an off-leash dog park where the puppies could get some exercise. There aren't any in Cedar City, but there is one in St. George - about 40 minutes away. So we hopped in the car.

The bank we passed driving into the city said the temperature in St. George was 108 degrees (yeah, but it's a dry heat... like a blow torch to the face!)

The park was nothing like our beautiful Grandville Dog park in Milwaukee, but an acre or so of fenced grass with lots of smells to sniff and a wading pool in case it just got too hot! The puppies had a great time. There were even a few other dogs braving the heat. The big dogs had little interest in our two mutts, but once they left, a family with three little dogs arrived, so we moved to the little-dog half of the park and the running, barking and sniffing started all over again.

Once they crashed in the grass and Mojo in particular, looked like he'd had all the fun (and heat) that they could handle, we loaded the pups BACK in the car and headed back to Cedar City. All in all, a lovely day and we were rewarded with two very sleepy puppies when we got home.

Vegas and Vegas

Pete and I had two trips to Las Vegas in one week! The first, we took my room mate Laura to the Airport when her contract ended so she could fly back to Milwaukee and would not have to suffer the shuttles from Cedar City to St. George and St. George to Vegas. Since I had no rehearsals that day and we were in town anyway, we decided to have lunch and see the Bellagio fountains which we had not gotten a chance to see the last time we were in Vegas two summers ago.

We had lunch at the buffet in Paris where Pete's parents had taken us for our anniversary a couple of years ago. It's pretty wonderful, the whole thing is broken up by province and the food is fantastic. After lunch, we walked across the street to the fountains and although it took three tries, we finally saw a whole song of the dancing water.

The end of this same week, we were supposed to go up to Salt Lake City and Orem, to see the Bees and Owls baseball teams. But the stage manager that I am understudying got a flu bug that has been going around the company so we decided to stay close to home in case I had to cover any of her rehearsals. Luckily, it was only a 24 hour flu and she was better the next day.





So instead of Bees and Owls, we drove to Vegas on Sunday and saw an Area 51s game. I wasn't sure if we would get a game in, and it wasn't a big deal because we saw the 51s a couple of years ago, but it was a perfect day for Baseball. It was 102 degrees, so we got seats in the shade which also had misters and ceiling fans. The Area 51s beat the Sacramento River Cats and all in all, it was a great day.

We were HOT when we finally made it back to Cedar City, luckily, there is a pool right on the other side of our apartment!!