Monday, June 25, 2012

A visit to auntoh's house

Two weeks ago we drove out for a quick visit to Ali and Eric's. As we did the previous trip, we rented a minivan from Avis to make the trip easier and more fun. Alex loves getting a new car, especially one with as many nifty features as the recent Dodge vans. The Avis vans all seem to come loaded with Rear DVD, satellite radio, and other niceties.

Among the other highlights of this visit, we toured the massive Kennecot Utah copper mine near AE's house, and had a delightful Father's Day dinner with Eric's parents. But most of the time we spent following Olli around, between his naps, as he explored the house on his new-found crawling hands and knees. Both Alex and Genevieve were fascinated with his baby toys, perhaps reliving their youths.

Alex at one of the many nearby playgrounds:



Running thru the sprinklers!



Some (mostly) peaceful front porch sittin' with Auntoh Ali:



Somewhere in Southern Wyoming; the after-effects of a busy weekend at Ali and Eric's:



A very worthwhile detour to the Hobo Pool, a free, hot spring fed public pool in Saratoga, Wyoming:



Too bad the excellent nearby Thai place has closed :-(

Speaking of great road food in Wyoming, we came across a great brewpub in Rock Springs, Bitter Creek Brewing. And stopped again at our new favorite almost-home spot, Lovejoy's in downtown Laramie. Always a good Sunday night special.

Genna enjoys a real fruit smoothie at Bitter Creek Brewing on our way out Thursday evening:



1 comment:

Auntie Kimmers said...

Looks like you all had a lot of fun! And so much sunshine, something that is kind of rare here in P-town!