Here she is in front of one of her "must visit" sites when returning to Utah. I'll admit it's not my favourite chocolate in the world, but as far as American chocolate goes, it really is good.
I have several "must visit"(s) in the US, none are particularly exclusive to Utah though I guess. I always like to take a trip to Old Navy. Not overly classy, but they do nice casual and comfortable clothes at a very reasonable price.
That fits all of my requirements. I also have a love affair with Chicken Alfredo at Olive Garden. Carl's Jr, and Krispy Kremes also make the list. The one exclusive to Utah would be Park City. That is one of my favourite places to visit any time we go to Utah. There is just something very satisfying about the scenery and the general ambiance there.
Alyson tells me this is Brody's standard photo pose. I'm quite amused by this, and he's not our only niece/nephew to have adopted a standard pose. If you have access to Martin & Sarah's blog (http://babyblack1.blogspot.com/), you will see that Emma likes to go for an especially toothy grin for all her close-ups.
Here we are at the Alpine Slide ready to let rip. They make a pretty good go at having suitable things to do during the summer up in Park City (in case the scenery wasn't enough already). I still quite fancy going up in the gondola at the Deer Valley resort though and looking around some of the other resorts. I am hoping that at some point in the coming years I will also be able to go skiing for the first time up in PC. I was discussing this a few days ago with Alyson that it's a bit unusual for me to think of Winter actually having decent outdoor activities, and being able to make the most of the cold as well as the heat of summer. We do have ski slopes in Scotland, but no resorts of the size of Park City, or like those in the Alps. There certainly isn't the same kind of all-round leisure experience there that accompanies places like Park City either. I'm excited to give it a bash. I think another important thing for me on my next trip will also be to have a bit more priority on trying to see old friends in Utah. I haven't really seen anyone outside of Alyson's family the last 2 trips that we've taken, and I feel bad about that since it's not like I'm in their neck of the woods year round. Equally, we would really like some visitors (I won't try to be coy about it!).
This is where we hope and expect to see at least some of you in 2012. I think this picture is taken from the castle (hence why it's not in the picture as you might have been wondering). It really is a great place to visit, and we hope to be showing at least some of you around over the next 12-14 months. It is worth both your time and your money and we're just going to get more insistent the longer you leave it to visit us! I have already suggested to Alyson that we should just threaten to go on a cruise instead of visiting if no-one comes out (the cruise would actually cost less). In all seriousness though, we really hope that we can start planning Scotland 2012 in the very near future with you. (If of course you'd like to come sooner, we won't complain).P.s. if any of the Bean/Hall family would like more photos, we have quite a few of Brody, and some of Dave at the RSL game. It just takes longer than I'd like to post them up.
