Charlie's Family in Town: Skiing, Lindon Temple Open house, and Utah Mammoth Game

 Next up: night skiing at Brighton. It was a heat wave that week so it felt very strange while it was in the 70s in the valley to go night skiing. It was so warm at the resort that I only wore my light fleece with a t-shirt underneath for the first two hours. Once the sun went down, I put my jacket on. The sunset was so beautiful!

At the top of the resort, looking at the Heber Valley.

It worked out perfectly that the Lindon Temple Open house was going. We went right after school. We had heard there were long lines most of the time but it ended up not being long when we went. When we finished, the line was long. 

We got discount tickets to the Utah Mammoth game. It worked out for Marshall to take the boys to the game.

Charlie's Family in Town: Pool, Grizzlies Game, Family Dinner

We love when Charlie's family comes to town! We started off with an afternoon at the Heber pool.

Next was the Grizzlies game. 

It was military night so it was cool to see some repel down from the ceiling. They brought out this huge flag for the National Anthem. I love huge flags. They are so cool!

Ali was out of town so it was fun to have Dan and Drew joined us. James dropped out last minute and Sienna had other plans so Betsy and Grace used their tickets.

We lost in overtime. It was such a sad ending to an exciting game.

We celebrated March birthdays. 

High School Soccer for James

James made the high school soccer team for his 4th and last year. He is a starter on varsity and loving it. There is a new coach this year and James gets along with him really well. That wasn't the case the last two years.

One of the parents takes pictures and posts them for everyone to have. Now we have a bunch of awesome pictures of James playing soccer.

Lynnlee's 16th Birthday Trip Part 3

Friday, we were in Ensenada. I was a little worried about safety because of the craziness going on in Mexico. Also, because we were just two American females who could be easily taken advantage of. We decided to wait to get off the ship until there were more groups around to blend in with. I thought I remembered where the shops were, so we tried to walk with a purpose. 

Since it was our last morning, there were fun towel animals and other towel objects all around.

The shops were a little hard to find because, as you head northeast from the ship, you can't see them. They are one street in from where we are walking, so you get close but can't find them until you go one more street. We were walking and knew we were getting close, but couldn't find them. I didn't trust asking a local. Thankfully, a Segway tour passed us, and I asked the tour guide. He showed us where to go. We got soccer jerseys for the boys and Lynnlee. I got some earrings. We got souvenirs for Lynnlee's friends, then went back to the ship. I can't remember what we got for Sienna.

We spent the rest of the day playing trivia in the Red Frog Pub. It took three rounds of trivia for Lynnlee to win a trophy (a ship on a stick, they kept calling it). Yeah!

We spent some time in the hot tub to celebrate her win.

That night we enjoyed pizza one more time. The gluten-free deep-dish pizza was so good!

We watched Interstellar on the deck for a while until we got too cold.

We got off the ship Saturday morning, but our flight wasn't until 5:00 that afternoon. We took an Uber to Santa Monica Pier. We enjoyed walking on the beach, putting our feet in the ocean, walking around the pier, riding e-scooters, and eating at a restaurant on the pier. We stored our luggage at an e-bike rental shop. It was only about $10 to store our luggage for the day.

The Asian group was filming a music video.

The e-scooters were so fun, but at one point, we went too far north, and Lynnlee's scooter stopped working. We had to drag it to a parking area and then exchange it for another one. We still aren't exactly sure why her's stopped working because mine kept working. Also, her battery wasn't out. There wasn't good troubleshooting for it.  

It was a fun day but we were so ready to be home. We took an Uber to the airport and made our flight with no problems.