Come to Zion, Come to Zion

(aka 25 reasons why I'm glad we're going to Utah)

1- The kids get to see their cousins and their grandparents.

2- Eddie gets to spend a week of the vacation with us, away from work!

3- Getting to find out if I'm having a boy or a girl a full four weeks ahead of my regularly scheduled ultrasound.

4- Cafe Rio

5- Brick Oven

6- Ruth's Diner (I'll think if you when I'm there, smartmama)

7- Being able to go to the temple without taking all day and spending $50 on gas and a babysitter

8- Being able to go anywhere else without paying a babysitter

9- Yet another zoo trip

10- Seeing my friend Janet

11- Going to my in-law's cabin in the mountains

12- Wading in the creek

13- Sleeping with the windows open at night

14- Walking in the canyon

15- Running outside, and leaving the kids at home with grandma

16- Low humidity (possibly my favorite thing)

17- Reminiscing on the BYU campus

18- Taking the kids on the chair lift at Sundance

19- Eating a apple pie apple from the Rocky Mountain Candy Factory in Park City (I know they sell these everywhere, but they always taste better in Park City)

20- Los Hermanos (which apparently doesn't have a website)

21- Slumber parties with the cousins

22- No cleaning my house for two weeks!

23- Digging for bones at the dinosaur museum

24- The inevitable run-ins with old acquaintances I forgot existed

25- Looking at the Salt Lake skyline as the plane lands and feeling like I've come home.

--originally published 7/20/06