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!!