Trip to Utah

Over Father's Day we decided to get out of town for the weekend.  Mostly to keep me from being the on call person for our fill in pharmacist for the third time out of three times.  We booked a couple nights in Wolf Creek down by Ogden and took off Friday night.  On Saturday we headed into Salt Lake City to go to Hogle Zoo.  Wesley loves animals so much that we thought he would really enjoy the zoo.  Jennifer came with us and squeezed into our backseat with Jonathen and Wesley.  Wesley really loved the zoo and got to see lots of animals.  Some of his favorites were the monkeys and the tigers.  Throughout the zoo we would ask him what animal we were looking at and Wesley would tell us that it is not a monkey.  Here is Wesley at the monkey cages.  These monkeys were super loud.

At the end of our time at the zoo we went into the gift shop to get a few souvenirs.  Wesley found a hat that he absolutely loved, a black hat with a tiger head and front paws sticking out of it.  Kyle thought it was kind of silly, but Wesley adored it so we got it for him.  Besides, a hat that looks stupid on an adult looks great on a 2 year old.  Wesley really liked the zoo.  Jonathen, of course, could not have cared less.  All he wanted was to be out of his carrier.

 

After the zoo we took Jennifer to the Rodizio Grill in SLC.  It is a Brazilian themed grill where the bring the meat around on spits and you take what you want.  There is also a buffet with different salads and entrees that are commonly eaten in Brazil.  At the end of the meal we got two creme's to share, one strawberry and the other passionfruit.  Passionfruit is a slightly tart fruit and so the creme was also slightly tart.  I forgot to warn Jennifer about that before she took a very large spoonful and put it in her mouth.  Needless to say, that was the only bite of the passionfruit creme that Jennifer took.  That night we went back to Wolf Creek and went swimming.  Wesley and Jonathen both really enjoyed the pool.  Wesley discovered that if you get a noodle full of water and then blow on one end you can spray others with a fairly large amount of water.  We went home the next day in time for Jennifer to leave with Mom and Dad to go to Moscow.  Overall, it was a fun weekend.