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Published: July 21st 2017
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Last day at Ponderosa Resort! We slept in today. Most of us were getting up around 9:00. We made waffles for breakfast. We enjoyed a nice meal and planned the day.
We started by heading to the rec center. Alexis and Jordan paid to rent golf cart for the day. Grace wanted to drive an ATV. They had small ones and a little track for her to ride on. After a few small spills she figured it out. She got a good 15 minute ride. The girls were excited to be driving the golf cart. They were buzzing around the place like they were off roading.
Next, we went and played part of a round of mini golf. We didn’t realize that once you pay for the band you get to use it for the length of your stay. We wished we had bought those earlier. We played the first 9 holes. The game was a tight game and we planned to finish it later in the day when the temperature drop. Alexis was in the lead after the first nine holes and Jordan was quickly moving forward after her 8 on the first hole.
We headed to the pool to cool down.
We slid into the pool to cool off. They have water slides into both pools. The water is not cold but it is refreshing. We swam for about an hour then stopped for a lunch break.
We finally finished up the leftovers in the fridge. YEAH!
At 2:00 we had a family ATV tour. It was a splurge but well worth it. We had one Razor that 4 road in and an ATV. We also went with a guide. Alex, Jody and Alexis all got turns driving the two vehicles. We had an hour long ride. We stopped at a few places along the trail. Grace even said at one point “Even Mom’s get to have some fun.” If you have seen the video Incredibles you will understand how she sounded if you know the part when the neighbor said “That was AWESOME!” that is exactly what Grace sounded like.
We were extremely dusty when we returned. Jordan and Grace wanted to drive their own ATV so they did the 15 minute small ATV ride again. Jordan was really buzzing
around the track.
The girls drove the golf cart back to the camper for a quick change and back to the pool. We had about an hour before we had to get showers and ready for dinner. After showers the girls used driving around in the golf cart as their way of drying their hair. They are really loving having this golf cart to travel in. It is getting a lot of miles today.
We purchased the Dutch-Oven dinner and chuck wagon ride. We headed to the rec center to be shown where to go. We walked to the dinner area. They had lots of choices to eat including corn bread, beans, potatoes (that were undercooked) BBQ chicken and Brisket. They had a band there playing as we ate. There was peach cobbler for dessert. The band asked for helpers during the meal and Grace and Alex both helped out. Alex was the best whistle blower they had ever had. Alexis and Jordan were a little embarrassed by all of the attention. We were to have a wagon ride after the meal but a storm was rolling in with exceptional lightening we had been
watching throughout the meal. They decided to move the wagon ride to tomorrow at noon. We however will be gone by then. Dinner was a fun time but not the best investment of our money for the day’s activities.
Since the wagon ride was canceled, we went to finish the mini golf game from the morning. In the end Alex won. There was a 3 way tie for second place so Alexis, Jody and Jordan had to replay the first 2 holes to see who came in second place. So the final results were: Alex, Alexis, Jordan, Jody and finally Grace, who got the pretty dress.
We headed back to the camper to get ready for bed. Alexis and Jordan road up in the golf cart but took it back to the lodge to try to upload some episodes to the iPads for the ride tomorrow. The signal is to be stronger there. They didn’t get too far because the storm rolled in.
We got a new neighbor after dark, who did not seem to have to follow the rules. They started a fire which is banned in the
state of UTAH right now. It gave us something new to talk about.
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