Saturday Fun

On Saturday, Ray and I decided we wanted to take a trip to Lucin UT, and check out some land that is currently for sale. We left our house just before 9AM, and headed to Lucin. After we got there, we visited the water hole, and walked the old rail line for about and hour,then we decided it would be fun to drive around the entire Great Salt Lake. We decide it might be a fun Saturday Micro trip. Well it ended up being almost 400 miles and took the entire day. We returned home at about 7:30, and had made it into Nevada as well. Anyway, below are some pictures of our trip, and some of the things we saw on the way. Oh and how cool are we? We can now say we have been around the entire Great Salt Lake. :) haha (Pathetic I know)

I decided once we got out to the boonies that I would let the kids take turns sitting on my lap and drive the van. Jake was first, and he thought he was so cool. He spent quite a bit of his driving time giggling and squealing. It was pretty funny to watch. He is a pretty good driver.

Next it was Ellie's turn. She was pretty sure she was going to be a better driver than any of us, and did a pretty good job keeping the van on the road. Now Ray and I get to worry about one of the kids finding the keys and trying to take the car for a spin on their own. ;)

The first animal that we saw was an Antelope, standing on the side of the road. He did not seem like he was to afraid of us and our van, or our picture taking.

Next we came across this Lama. He was all alone, and seemed very interested in what we were doing out in his neck of the woods.

This is a Golden Eagle. I was pretty disappointed about this because he was sitting on a fence post as we passed, and by the time I backed all the way up to snap some shots of him he had decided it was time for him to go find some breakfast. He sure was a pretty boy...

This was a very tall pine tree that tipped over. We stopped to take some pictures, and a girl and her sister pulled up on their bikes and started telling us about what had happened. They said a few days after the Wells Nevada earthquake at about 7pm the people who live in this home heard this loud creaky noise, and then felt the ground shake and next they heard a big thud. When they went outside they found that the old pine had fallen to its death.

Check out the trampoline. How scary is that? I think they are lucky that it didn't lift up the whole front part of their home. It gives me chills to think about what it must have felt like. This is a whole in the rocks on the mountain out by Lucin. The rocks are pretty cool sliver like boulders, and as we were driving I noticed the sun shining through this whole. pretty amazing.This is um, well I am not sure what it is. Some kind of tree thing I assume. It had a bunch of these little pin wheels on it and the wind was blowing and they were spinning quite fast. There were a bunch on the ground, and I assume as they fall new ones get put in their place. The kids thought that it was really cool, and Ellie even thinks it would be cool to make one for our yard. :)This is out on the salt air side of the lake. There were around 11 boats that we could count, and the kids thought it was cool to see all the sail boats out on the windy water. All in all it was a pretty fun day full of no worries, and lots of new adventures.