Blogs from Utah, United States, North America

We are sitting in an airport hotel room in Salt Lake City, Utah, waiting for a pizza delivery. (Sigh!) We should still be in our lovely log cabin on Powder Mountain but we fly home tomorrow and it is blizzarding in the mountains. We, and the neighbours who were responsible for getting us and our belongings on and off the mountain by snowmobile got a bit nervous about our planned 7.45am shuttle pick up, in a snow storm. So today we had to bid an early adieu to our home of a week on Powder Mountain. When we arrived in Utah 8 days ago, everyone was complaining about the lousy winter and lack of snow. They aren't complaining anymore. Powder Mountain has had several feet of fresh powder snow fall over the last few days and ... read more

We drove through the Arches national park and saw arch shaped rocks and balanced rocks with rock cliffs. The rock were red lile Ayres rock but there was snow as well. We did lots of walks in the park to see the rocks. After the park we drove along the Colorado River for a look.... read more

On Saturday we had a quick look at Deer Valley and then went to The Canyons ski resort. We caught the gondola with no windows from the car park to the village. Next we caught another gondola to the ski area. The gondola was very long and crossed a big canyon. We went to the Olympic Village where they had the luge for the bob sledding and skeleton events. They had the Winter Olympics in 2002. We saw the jumps for the freestyle aerials. We also saw the training jumps where you land in the pool. They use this in summer. We drove to Salt Lake City after dinner.... read more

We went to the Natural History Museum of Utah. We saw dinosaur bones and saw a skeleton of a mammoth. It was bigger than the storeroom at school. We visited our neighbours' in laws. They gave us a photo of Arches National Park. Next we drove to Park City.... read more

What a beautiful clean modern city Salt lake City is. It is truely impressive by anyones standards. The buildings are modern and incredibly well maintained. The streets are the same along with inner city parks. Had a blast here after arriving by train at about 2.00am in the morning. My bed in the hotel was just the nicest bed I have ever slept in. It just totally engulfed me. Almost decided to stay in bed for my whole time there but then decided against that for fear of missing the sights of the Inner City. Lucky I did arise from my bed sanctuary because I found Temple Square, the world epi-centre for the Mormon faith. Regardless of your faith I believe anyone would be impressed by this space, the gardens and the buildings. Found the Mormon ... read more