The snow today made me want to remember all the awesome summer things I did, not but a few short months ago.
Let me explain.
No, there is too much. Let me sum up:
First, there was this flock of geese that stayed in my neighbor's yard for two days.
Somewhere in July, Lisa went with us to see fireworks.
The Cabin Johnson's visited Utah, and just as I predicted, Aaron and Greg were Brothers from Another Mother. Here we caught them both wearing old-school arcade game T-shirts.
We pretended we were single and went with the single's ward to a Bee's game.
Oh, and we Moabed.
We played a free game of mini-golf at the Salt Lake Arts Center --- on a course of "art" miniature golf holes.
One Par 3 even gave you a free game of Donkey Kong when you made it in the hole. Aaron was excited to see the real thing instead of just the one on his T-shirt.
Right before school started we road-tripped to California for a wedding reception of one of Aaron's friends. We enjoyed the nicer part of town....
...as well as the lesser-known Hicksville side of Malibu.
On the way home, we found the Hoover Dam has been eclipsed by its gargantuan neighbor bridge.
The Ethel M Chocolate Factory outside Vegas was nice, but the cactus and rock garden outside was much more entertaining. Lisa and I pretended to be Saguaros....
....while Aaron tried to pretend to be another. Didn't work, buddy.
We visited The Strip, but the best part was a little splurge to see the Shark Aquarium at Mandalay Bay.
It was like ...walking through an aquarium!
The spiky Spinefish were my favorite.
Back in Utah, we had a very windy afternoon trip to Dugway with the Bills. It was too windy to even shoot off rockets.
But we did gather for some intense ping-pong back at the Bills homestead. 
Austin had to be all gross and find a freaking huge bug. And of course none of us could resist looking at it. 
Aaron's family goes to the Sheepdog Trials in Heber every year. We fittingly watched "Babe" on the portable DVD player during the drive up.
It was less like a rodeo than I expected - much more civilized.
Finally, the summer culminated in our triumphant ascent of Mount Timpanogos. Seriously, who built a house at the top!?
Coming back down... we couldn't believe we were just at the top of that. 
2 comments:
Boring!? (needed: the interrobang)
There were tons of pictures! It was awesome! Seriously, I think I knew about oh 1/5 of these adventures. Thank you for posting and keeping me updated.
I just read about the bridge by Hoover Dam the other day! Cool to see a picture of it. The saguaro makes me laugh, the sheepdogs are cool, and Austin's bug looks like sort of cockroach, the kind that Hemingway catches here.
Enjoy your snow, you prencen.
I'm wearing the same T-shirt (arcade donkey kong) in two of these photos....maybe i should have more than 3 T-shirts in my collection. Maybe I could purchase them from unctier.
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