Mountain fun

Our home for the week was in Little Cottonwood Canyon just south of Salt Lake City at The Cliff Lodge, which is part of the Snowbird Ski Resort.  It's a nicely kept, HUGE hotel with beautiful glass windows from floor to ceiling which face the mountain and ski slopes.  The concrete walls and pillars upholding the hotel are amazingly huge and thick--I imagine they were built to withstand the heavy snow and avalanches, which are common to this area.

We took a day to relax and explore the resort.  The kids played on the bungee jump trampolines, the alpine slides, and the zip line.  They thought they were in heaven (except for the whining when they realized doing a flip on the bungees was harder than they thought).  Note:  Not to be shown-up by her brothers, Karina was the first one to flip.  Is that really a surprise?

We rode the tram up the mountain to Hidden Peak.  The kids were a little worried in the tram when it swung quite a bit in the air, but we made it.  And what beautiful vistas we were able to enjoy!  

The kids went swimming a couple of times in the heated outdoor swimming pool.  The first time they swam, it was raining a bit and the clouds were so low they practically hit the kids heads as they swam.  Jason and I shivered as we sat and watched them swim.  When we went inside, we discovered why were so cold--it was 37 degrees outside!