As Graham and I were awoken to our last day in Utah, we reflectied on all of the new experiences. It was sad to think that we would soon be back to ordinary things. (But as everyone else trickled off to their respective states, we knew it was time to go.) We had made plans to visit Park City after everyone we knew insisted upon going.
We rolled up, meeting our friends Mitch and Abigail at the Olympic Park. We hiked a little hill, jumped on the ski lift and awaited for our chance to get on the alpine slide. It was so fun to race down! Afterwards we chatted about traveling, babies and life in general before parting ways. More friends bit the dust.
Up next was to see the Jagtiani's. We had a present for the newlyweds that we hadn't delivered at the reception that we needed to get to them before their week long honeymoon. Sunny was thrilled that we came by so he could convert us over to his favorite pizzeria called The Pie. I gotta say, they double layered the cheese and that was alright by me! They seemed to like the personalized print, yay on gift giving, and I demanded a picture ;) We told them goodbye one last time and sped off.
Our home for the entirety of our trip had been with our dear friends the Frailey's. We were (and are) so grateful they opened up their beautiful home to us and didn't judge as we ran around with 0 time to do anything! It just worked out perfectly that we could spend several hours at their home with them on our last day. It felt awesome to simply relax after the hussle and bustle of the trip- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was playing, Dooley was drooling and chicken and rice was served. Thanks ya'll, our family loves yours!
As the hours ticked down before we needed to go to the airport, we decided to stop by the Oquirrh Mountain Temple. It was pretty awesome to find that Utah was set up in such an easy way to get to it, much moreso than the intricacies of Jacksonville. We saw it from a distance, took a slight detour and found our way! As we went to take a photo we saw... well, I'll just say that it involved some other people romping around and a butt crack. On the temple grounds. Okay, moving on. Photo time! It was here that I hated myself for wishing that I would have just took the plunge and bought a selfie stick. (Insert cringing emoji.)
As a final detour, Graham's best friend, yes another one, invited us to meet his new fiance. By now, we were relieved that we had unlimited miles on the rental car since we had clocked in our fair share. So away we went! We arrived, typically talked about guns with Russell, all of the talents of Rocio (the fiance) and, of course, about the possibilities of them moving back south. Graham was also invited to be a groomsman in his wedding in August :) The boy gets around!
Then it was time to go home to humid Florida! After being in dry heat, I concluded that I was born to be an East Coast gal. It took several days to recognize the crazy lip chapping action and ashy skin was due to the weird change my body had underwent in traveling. Not cute my friends. Plus all of the "you won't even sweat here" was lies as I soaked through every shirt I had brought. "It feels like the inside of an oven," -G. Yep, so get me back to the South where I belong!
We arrived back at the airport 6 days after showing up with sunburned necks and hundreds of pictures. It was sad to close that chapter of another spent vacation. However, that will certainly not be our final SLC trip #GeneralConferenceAnyone? So we checked into the abnormally long line, and found out that who could be leaving from our gate but... Sunny and Lisa! Let me just say that they probably felt like they couldn't get away from us at this point. Graham savored his last few minutes of BFF time before they left for the Dominican Republic. We took a few final pictures to commemorate the irony of it all. It was such a nice closing point for this entertaining trip! As we took that red-eye home, I was excited to get to the second best state in all of America, my home. :)
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