Party in Park City

Today is my last day of summer.  My RN year starts tomorrow.  Part of me is excited to start school again and have something to do during the day (not that I don't love spending all day with Tacy).  The rest of me wishes I could just stay home with Tacy.  But I just have to get through to April and then I will have a new degree (ASN - Associates of Nursing) and then make it through the RN board exam (yuck).  I can do it.  

Thinking about getting through school makes me think of Dory.  I love Disney movies and Finding Nemo is one of my all time favs.  Whenever Tacy is throwing a fit because I won't let her play with something she wants I pick her up and start to sing "Hey mister grumpy gills.  You know what you need to do?  Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, etc"  I think that is so much better than the little engine that could.  As great as "I think I can" is, "Just keep swimming" seems like such a better motto to get through hard times.

As this was my last weekend before school, we decided to do one more trip and went up to Park City with our friends, Sean and Ashley.  We went up Saturday and went to the Tanger Outlets.  I was so excited because we found Tacy a little pink Adidas track outfit for only $25 and we had a 20% off coupon.  Score! Tacy was getting fussy with the shopping because she was hungry so we went to McDonalds and she downed a yogurt parfait, some french fries, some bun, and bits of cookies.  Then we went and checked into our condo (thank you KSL deals).  The place looked kinda scary on the outside but our condo was so nice!  We got a 2 bedroom and it had a kitchen, a huge living area, table, big tvs, and the master bedroom was huge.  There was plenty of room for the 5 of us.  After Tacy took a nice nap we went to a mexican restaurant for dinner.  Tacy ate lots of black beans, rice, and some green peppers.  Sean said that food was pretty authentic mexican (probably why it didn't thrill my guts - I love sour cream and flour tortillas).  

modeling her track jacket

After dinner we went back to our condo and went swimming in the indoor-outdoor pool.  Tacy has never swam in a real pool before so we were excited.  It was 8pm by this time but Tacy was wide awake.  It had rained/thunderstormed earlier so it was a little chilly.  The pool wasn't too cold (but it also wasn't as warm as I would have liked).  Brad held Tacy in the pool and swam around with her.  She looked cold after a few minutes so we got out and wrapped her up.  I held her while I put my feet in the jacuzzi and everyone else sat in it.  Tacy was still smiling and laughing.  Once she was warm, Brad and Sean took her back into the pool and swam back and forth with her.  She was laughing so much.  If I hadn't been in the pool/spa myself I would have taken pictures.  Oh well.

dancing in the wicker chair before heading down to the pool

After baths/showers Tacy went to bed.  Then the rest of us watched "Mud".  Brad had a free redbox movie code and had read something about this movie and thought it sounded good.  Well it was a drama.  So it was interesting/depressing.  I will not watch it again.  It reminded me a lot of "Four Feathers".  Sean made all of us some yummy peach shakes to eat while we watched the movie so that was nice.

In the morning Tacy was up at 7:30 as usual.  So, Brad and I got up with her and fed her some banana.  Then I started to make breakfast for the rest of us.  Sean got up and cut up the rest of the peaches and some nectarines.  We ate those with yogurt and bananas.  I fried up some sausage and we also had cinnamon raisin english muffins.  Nothing too fancy but yummy.  After breakfast we cleaned up and packed up.  As soon as Tacy woke up from a nap we left.  Brad and I have never done much in Park City except to go up for the Alpine Slides or the Outlets.  So Ashley insisted we needed to walk down Main Street.  Main Street has lots of little shops along it and Park Silly was going on (basically a giant street market).  So we walked through.  It was an interesting experience.  We let Tacy play/crawl around in some grass by the Park City Lift because she was getting restless.  Then we drove back home.

enjoying the breeze while watching the Lift

It was fun to get away for a day/night.  Even though we didn't do much, it was still nice.  And we got a great deal on the room we stayed in.  Sean and Ashley loved playing with Tacy.  And now Sean and I get to start school again.  Woo hoo!