You might remember the looks of Willow Lake last fall. You might remember how the cat tails were mostly gone and the island was a little higher, well in the middle of this white lake is a mound and this is the island in the middle of Willow Lake. The clouds are blocking the view to the west, but they sure brought in the storm Friday night. The only way in on Saturday was by snow shoe. My legs are felling the effort.

Winter Wonderland

Saturday Feb. 23rd. Brad, Aaron and Evan tried to make it to the cabin. Too much powdery snow for the snow mobiles. Evan took his four wheeler and put tracks on it and boy did he get stuck. We has some mechanical problems that cost us 24 hours of time to get it out. In the mean time, Evan walked in on snow shoes to the cabin and then over to Willow Lake. Yes, it is frozen over, anyway part is still open where water is still moving. Quite a prett sight. I'll add to this nightly for a while to give you something to look forward too. Pretty sight, don't you think?

Utes Forever

On Saturday, Feb. 16th, We got to go to a basketball game at the "U". The gang at the store got together and gave us tickets and sweatshirts to the game and dinner afterwards. It ended up being one the premier games of the year. They were celebrating 100 years of Basketball at the U and all basketball players that had ever played were invited to return. Then they selected an all century team. We really had a wonderful time and enjoyed every minute and even enjoyed watching Utah beat San Diego State. We will always have the Red Blood of Utah in our veins.

Saturday night, we all took to the lanes and went bowling. The high score of the evening was Abby. We kept waiting for the bumper pads to come up for us, but we had no such luck. Here are Jake, Evan, Faith, Chantel, Jared and Abby and Logan. Shannon took the picture, baby Gracie is looking like Shannon swallowed a bowling ball. 9 more days for Shannon and Gracie.

This is the yurt. A kind of Norweigen tent. This is listed somewhere, as one of the top 10 romantic dinner experiences in the country. It was really quite fun. All the food comes up from Park City by way of snow mobile. They even have a baby grand piano playing all night, live.

This is our team of horses. It made the trip really easy. It was 25 minutes up the hill and 25 more on the return trip. On the way down, we did see a moose and calf off the side of the trail, but the entire evening took over three hours.

By the way, did we mention that there is no running water or electricity. We were warned that it would be warmer to use the facilities at the lodge before we left. You can see why.

This is the sleigh that we all jumped in. It had two of seats facing each other. We did have blankets to keep the cold wind out. But the faces were cold.

February 8th, We were invited to go to a Yurt on top of the mountain by the Canyons in Park City for dinner. We are in a sleigh that held 32 people and was really open air. We had seat belts and tried to stay warm but had 25 minute ride to the top of the mountain for a 6 course dinner