Vacation #6: Utah Olympic Park

On Monday we visited Utah Olympic Park outside of Park City.  This is where several events of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics were held and now is a training center for athletes from around the world.  Jim and I visited here in 2004 on an anniversary trip, and it was fun to go back and show the kids years later.

This was the most fun part, watching ski jumpers do their aerial flips and turns into the big pool.

The museum has many things from past winter olympics.  These are some ski outfits from Sochi.

Caylie is a snowboarder!

The kids in a 4-man bobsled.

2002 medals.

Samuel was practicing his ski-manuevering.

Kids in a 2-man bobsled.

Justin is a fast skier!

Justin looking at all the different ski resorts around Park City.

Keelan carrying the torch.

I don't know what this is, but it was cool.

Caylie on a luge sled.

Justin on a skeleton sled.

This is an antique ski lift.  No way would I get on such a thing.  The modern ones scare me enough!

We took a tour on a little bus that took us to the top of the ski jumps and sled runs.  This is the view of the ski jumps from the bottom.

And this is the view from the top!  Eeeek!!

The gate to the one of the sled runs.

And the run.  Eeeek again!

View from the top.

We had fun!

Vacation #5: Back to Park City!

On Sunday morning we drove back to Park City, Utah for a couple more days of fun.  We were at the same condo, and this was the site out of our front door.  We could just walk a block over to catch the ski lift.

And this is the view from the ski lift!  

Up at the top were some shops and restaurants where we did a little shopping and had some fun.

Caylie modeling some glasses.

And she found a friend.  This mannequin is just inside the entrance to this store.  The guy working there told me that often customers will come in and start talking to him before they realize he's a mannequin, haha.

 When Sam saw that Caylie was modeling glasses, of course he had to model some, too.  ;)

The next morning we had breakfast with our friend Fred, whom we've known since the Promise Keeper days.  Jim's worked many an event with him over the years.  

This was the pool just down the sidewalk at the condo.  We had it to ourselves for a while on both days.  

More Park City adventures coming up!