love of local in Utah
Utah Trip 2019 Part 2
The girls and I checked into a rental house in downtown SLC right next to the capital so we could do the rest of our trip and host people at the home.
Abby & Cameron did a late night with some friends. It was fun (and a bit painful) to see them laughing and feeling comfortable with friends they love again.
Then Lydiabug spent the night, the three of them together make me hope they are able to be cousin roomates at university one day in the future.
Did our favorite EASY hike around Silver Lake up one of the canyons that we really had missed. Being in Utah was hard and beautiful all at the same time. It was the first time I had felt home in my heart after wanting it for so long in my life.
To celebrate Pioneer Day we went to the parade in the morning, hosted a dinner at our rental house, and watched fireworks at the capital a few steps away.
One morning we headed to Natural History of Museum which after our dance studio was where you could always find my family. It was nice to walk around that museum and remember many of our favorite memories as a family.
Of course during these days we fit in MANY more food trips to our favorite places. I miss knowing a town SO WELL that you know where to get your favorite cookie, the man at the museum that always gives your kids the biggest smile, and all the best parts in each parks.
The last thing we did with friends and family was a pool party with an ice cream truck. We ended the party a good hour before the pool rental was done. The girls and I just sat and sat and sobbed and sobbed. We didn’t want to go and acknowledge once again that we were leaving HOME. It was almost worst than when we moved because I knew it my heart that relationships and memories drift. We wouldn’t come back again and this many people would want to be with us. Because sadly that is what time and moving around tends to do. We jumped off the diving boards alone…BAWLING. We drove off away from our last night with everyone with so many tears.
Utah was HOME, in Utah we were LOVED, Utah forever will have such an important part of our hearts. It treated us so well.
