Beehive Adventures in a Birthday Hat and Tea Pot

I am just know getting the rest of our Utah pictures up here. I know it has taken me too long. However, we got back into town and have been trying to get back into the swing of real life. Plus my computer has been having some issues that have made it really difficult to do anything. Anyways, we are back up and running. As promised, the rest of our exciting, wonderful trip. 

First up, a Birthday Party. While my Papa was in town it happen to be his exciting day. Of course we had to celebrated with hats and all!!

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The Beehive Tea Room

This day, in my memory was a happy day. For no apparent reason, Bear and I had smiles on our faces the whole day. We woke in the morning not sure what we would do. Since it was one of the last days before we packed up we were trying to figure out something that we could do that we would miss while back in New Jersey. We both agreed on Salt Lake. A book store and walking around temple square would satisfy us.
After walking around the temple and the bookstore we started to get hungry. Since I was in high school I have heard all about a place called the Beehive Tea Room. Every time we went to Utah i've wanted to go. I mentioned it to Bear and we walked the couple of blocks to the Beehive Tea Room. The minute I walked in I fell in love. It was so cute and antiquie. We ate delicious sandwiches and enjoyed the old traditional victorianesque decorations. I can not wait to go there in the winter and escape away from the bitter cold with a hot pot of tea. After lunch we walked around downtown a little bit longer and enjoyed the scenery that downtown salt lake has to offer.

  

Papa came to town

My Papa, Bear, and myself all took a day trip into Salt Lake City to go to the Utah Natural History Museum, out to lunch, and walk around downtown. We had such a great time. It was so much fun being able to spend that time with my Papa. 

  

 

The next day while my Papa was in town we all (minus Bear. He went for a mountain bike ride) went up to the canyons resort and had lunch. It was fun being able to ride the lift up and walk around the resort without any snow. We even got to play a little game of horse shoes. The weather was great, the food was good, and the company was wonderful.  

And lastly, this picture was taken on my Papas birthday. Probably one of my favorite pictures ever taken.

Logan Canyon

 


Beehive Adventure: Day 31

Bear had to go up to Logan for some interviews on Sunday and Tuesday so we thought we might as well make a trip out of it and go camping  We arrived to Logan on Sunday and drove up Logan Canyon to pick out our camp site and put up our tent. We had never been up to Logan Canyon and we were pleasantly surprised when we only had to drive 6 miles outside of town to find a beautiful area to camp. After setting up camp we went back into town for Bear to do his interviews (hence, the blog with pictures from Logan) and I enjoyed exploring the town. We later headed back up to camp, we took our rain flap off the tent and enjoyed falling to sleep watching all the stars. The next day we took a hike, read our books, and relaxed. We made a fire and cooked our tinfoil dinners and roasted marshmallows. We enjoyed the fire long into the night while we talked and enjoyed each others company. It was such a great little getaway.

Sitting in Silence

We have turned the radio off and are sitting here in silence. After awhile the songs start to blend together and eventually it gets annoying. We have a couple more hours here on this highway. Bear and I make good traveling partners. We only get on each others nerves a little bit. It has been a really fun part of our relationship, this is the 5th time we have traveled across the country together. My favorite part about these trips are our talks. We have had some of thw most intimate talks while in a car. This trip we have talked about family and how much we miss them. We talked about school and what it will be like when Bear gets a "real" job, and we talked a lot about our likes and dislikes in life. For example; i love the laid back atmospher you have in utah and for Bear, he dislikes the feeling of having to prove something while being a student. We compare scenery from state to state and enjoy singing together when a song we like comes on the radio. I am thankful for these long rides.

Last day of trip

Although we're still twelve hours away, we're on the home stretch of our cross country trip back to NJ. From here on out the scenery gets duller, roads bumpier, and attitudes stinkier. Nowhere else, however, can you go through such a contrast in demographic and personality characteristics as that from the bible belt into the east coast. Passed a 250 ft cross a few hours ago, and just saw our first NJ plate clad car. Oy ve...

Ridgway, CO

This is the view we woke up to this morning. Simply Amazing.

Until we meet again

We said our goodbyes to Utah as we crossed the state line. We actually thought about turning aroud. Utah and I have a hard time parting. But as of right now we are still headed east and will be doing so for the next 1759 miles.

We are on the road, in Price to be exact. I am writing this from the hubs awesome new phone. Something that will keep me entertained on this car ride. I still have a lot of stories and pictures to post from the last little bit of our trip. I will do that soon. We are sad to say that today is our last day in Utah. The Beehive adventure has come to an end. We had such a wonderful time. Thank you to my parents for letting us be basement squaters for the past five weeks.

Logan through a Camera Lens

Beehive Adventure: Day 27

 

Park City Art Show