the Graham Cracker House

Our "getaway" this month was a quick stent to Park City.   It was supposed to be solely a movie viewing... but we couldn't stop trying to find a good deal on a hotel to justify staying longer.  Bjorn found one and a couple weeks later we checked into Holiday Inn one Friday evening.  We played in the hotel pool and enjoyed our picnic dinner (I try to make these getaways as cheap as possible... so instead of going out for dinner, we brought subway sandwiches and picnic-y side dishes.  Yes, in a cooler. :)  The film that night was Warren Miller's "Wintervention".  A super sweet ski movie.  Actually, it wasn't as good as last year's, but we got free passes to the Canyon's for going (along with free granola bars, goggle cloths, and some pins and stickers advertising the Canyons).  Which is basically how this whole thing got started.  We love cheap/free ski stuff!

The next morning we ate breakfast at the hotel, watched TV (an exciting adventure for us because we don't at home), used the gym, pool, and hot tub (again).  Not wanting to go back to reality quite yet, we moseyed down main street and stopped at a park.  It was wonderful to really get away.  I love taking time away from the world and just being with my husband.  I hope we are always able to make room for these trips in our life.

Perhaps we shouldn't have waited so long to get home.... because when we got back and started checking our e-mails and voicemails, we discovered our church building had been burned that morning.  Bjorn had quite a few calls from the ward leadership trying to get things organized to tell everyone where to meet the next day.  It was a sad event, but seems to have an end.  The man who broke in and burned it was arrested, and we have another building to meet in for the time being.  Here is a link to the news story.