Weekend Fun
Saturday I met up with several of the Utah gals for a late-afternoon get-together at Three Wishes, the fiber shop. We had a very fun time, knitting and chatting, and generally enjoying the ambience at the shop. I worked a little on my socks (both pairs on the needles currently), but got a call from D and had to zip off to go pick up a set of snowmobiles, as we were going snowmobiling with Pam and John and Daniel (for his birthday) on Sunday.
In honor of Daniel, we drove up to Daniel's Summit, which is east of Provo (which sits south of Salt Lake City). They have a large set of loops that have groomed snowmobile trails, so we were able to enjoy the great weather and spend the day outside. The other great news tidbit we found out is that this area has a large number of horse trails in the summer months and you can park at the lodge's parking lot, and ride right up into the aspens and pines for the day. We've earmarked that as a mid-summer ride when the valley temps are toasty; it will be much cooler up at this altitude.
We were worried that there might be a storm moving in, as one half of the mountain was covered with gloomy-looking gray clouds, while the other half showed bright blue sky. In the end, we lucked out, and the blue sky won out for the day. It was sunny and warm (around 40) for most of our riding time, and we had a blast.
Views of the mountains through the trees:
A shot of the boys having fun:
And finally, a picture of Daniel at one of the signposts with his name on it:
Happy Birthday, Dan!
Our regular knitting/fiber posts resume tomorrow.
All for now.....
You picked the perfect weekend to play in the snow. Looks like it was a fun time. It was great to see you Saturday. Let's do it more often!
Posted by:margene | February 06, 2007 at 05:57 AM
That's the way to have a fun weekend. !!
Posted by:Norma | February 06, 2007 at 06:30 AM
What an AWESOME birthday gift... what beautiful mountains!
Posted by:PJ | February 06, 2007 at 07:55 AM
Now THAT looks like fun! And you have a great place for the summer too! Thanks for the comment on the hats, I think I'm done now:)
Posted by:Carol | February 06, 2007 at 09:57 AM
I've only ever seen Utah in the summer...well, there was still snow, but it was a very different view nonetheless. How pretty!!
Glad that a good time was had by all and a happy birthday to Dan!
Posted by:Sheepish Annie | February 06, 2007 at 05:49 PM
Sounds like a great time! Happy Birthday to the birthday boy!
Posted by:Chris | February 07, 2007 at 07:43 AM
very pretty! i think that would be a fun way to spend a birthday -- as long as there was chocolate cake for after snow festivities :o)
Posted by:amanda | February 07, 2007 at 08:04 AM
It was such a nice time to sit and knit with you last Saturday. I second Margene.
Posted by:Baubo | February 10, 2007 at 07:39 PM