SLC and beyond

Hello, we are on a trip. The short flight to SLC was a real pleasure. I had a whole aisle between me and these sticker stickers. And then the flight attendants gave us juice!

Of course we were quite eager to see what Grambee herself was up to.

(She is getting smaller and also made me make this picture smaller.  But she will get bigger again and then I'll put in a bigger picture.)

One thing she was doing was making us all wear these cards on our foreheads and ask questions to determine what we were. It's a hard game.

These guys have also been bedeviling Grambee; if she tries to take a rest they like to gather as many toys and musical instruments outside her bedroom door and make a huge amount of noise.  When she asks them what they're doing, they say, "We want you to be available."

Oh wait!  The first thing we did, almost, was go to "Disney on Ice:  Toy Story 3"  thanks to Grace and Jim and everyone.  Whoa.  We got there late and it was still really long!  But an excellent spectacle!  The girls loved it.

And then there was this amazing "Barbie" part with a lot of aerobics and unitards for all the Dads that had come, and then she skated with Ken!  He did like a triple-lutz!

Oh yeah, we had an adventure today with the Holladay Rocks!  That's my brother Jim's family.  Here's a small sampling of his and Grace's children--Margo, Matthew and Bonnie.  Kool-aid and chicken nuggets were had by all.  And broccoli.  But not by Phoebe, who alas is not pictured.

Our girls love playing with their Rock cousins, but Ida is especially obsessed with their dog, Killy.  He's not named after a strange clown, but actually the great skiier Jean Claude Killy.

Because these people are skiiers so serious they'd just laugh at Uncle Arthur.  But because we're not, really, they agreed to go sledding with us.  Soon we drove up the canyon, away from this 65 degree weather, to Gorgoza Park!

We got back in time to eat some peanuts with Jim.  "Peanuts are the best!" Ida sang.  And Miki was lucky to get a peanut-cracking lesson from Jim himself:

Then he told her some things about milking cows and supply vs. demand.

She was rapt.