Pioneer Celebrations

Nathan and I decided to go visit family and friends during Pioneer Day and the weekend. The 24th was awesome! We started off the day right by going to the "Days of '47" Parade in Salt Lake with Nathan's family. The floats were all super fancy and President Uchtdorf was there to start off the parade!

In the afternoon we went up to a cabin and partied with the Blietschau side of my family. They are all super crazy and awesome! It was fun to get to see most of my aunts, uncles, and cousins.

I totally stole these picture collages from Facebook... Thanks Heather for being good about taking pictures!

For fireworks that night, Nathan and I went to Liberty Park. We totally sat in a horrible spot and had to move to the road when they started going off, but it worked. The fire works were average for most of the show, but the finale was AMAZING!!! So many fireworks! We would think it would be done, and then it would get even bigger, louder, and more colorful! Totally awesome! I think our 24th of July turned out perfectly.

We owed our brothers birthday presents so we went to Raging Waters (now 7 Peaks) the next day. The big tall slides with mats are my favorite! When you catch air going down and for a brief second you are flying.... Takes my breath away!  I love it! It was a lot of fun to go with Zach and Karl. We also celebrated our friend Mitch's birthday at Red Robin. (Really wish I would have gotten a picture of us...)

Since we weren't tired enough from the water park the first time, we went back the next day with Spencer and Jackie, and Jackie's sisters. Man oh man playing in water on a hot summer day is seriously the best! By the end we were totally wiped out, but still managed to find the energy to play some tennis. When we went to dinner everyone was wanting hamburgers and I just wasn't feeling it... But guess what was right next to the hamburger place... A GRILLED CHEESE gourmet restaurant! Yes please!!!!

(For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you've probably noticed that I'm weird and often post pictures of delicious food. So naturally when I find a grilled cheese restaurant I'm going to Instagram it.... You will not believe what it said on the menu... "If you post a picture to Instagram of your visit we will give you a free ice cream sandwich of your choice." My dinner was getting better by the second!!!)   

You better believe I got that free ice cream sandwich! I cannot think of a better dinner! To top it off we got frozen yogurt for dessert. mmm mmm

The next morning we enjoyed Salt Lake with Spencer and Jackie. We ate a delicious breakfast, went to the farmers market, Trader Joe's, and the Dutch Store to get me some German pickles! It was a very successful day!

We finished out our trip at my parents place. For some reason there was an awesome firework show set up at the park right by our house and we were so close to them. It was cool to see them shoot up right in front of us.

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Our trip was a lot of fun! It was so good to see everyone and do all of those awesome things together!