"look at that ginormous tub!" or PARK CITY 2008 complete with video tour of our stein eriksen suite

every summer we take our girls up to park city for the week--we love getting out of the heat and up into the mountains. we also love the wonderful connections we've made with managers of these other properties because they take care of us.  in a really big way.



this year we got a chance to upgrade mid-trip to the stein eriksen lodge which was all THAT and a bag of proverbial chips--since our camera was on the fritz, to see some pretty sweet photos of the place, clickity HERE

now, this next part is what my mother would call the "vain and pretentious" part of blogging--i call it the "i want my kids to look back and remember how great they had it this trip" part. it's just a video snippet i took of our wicked fly 3,000 sq. feet presidential suite.

if  our vanity offends you?   skip this:

the girls love taking the free trolley up and down main street and stopping into the marriott time-share office there to look at their live owl. what i don't like is how they are trying to talk me into a presentation the whole time, even as i am yelling, "MY HUSBAND WORKS FOR MARRIOTT! DON'T WASTE YOUR BREATH!" good thing we can pay $10 so the girls can hold him and get a photo but so so worth it.

other things the girls loved: watching more episodes of "lost",  riding up to the top of the mountain on the main street chair lift, seeing 'space chimps', and swimming at the stein pool where our cabana boy named jason basically attended to their every little whim and fancy. the guy was 24 years old and he played those little girls like a violin--in fact, i'd say he's just about the best i've seen at a job like that. every time we'd turn around he'd be there with a fresh towel, or chilled water bottles, or pool toys for the kids, or fruit-kabobs on a platter. it was pretty uptown, and katie thought he was the cat's pajamas.  rbc was just a little bit annoyed because he knew it would just mean more $$$ out of his pocket come tip time. but we could not have asked for more--we loved every single second and the girls were all a flutter.

 park city is such a special place for us cloves.  i hope my girls will remember these trips fondly.