This year for our family vacation we decided that it would be fun to go see the Great Salt Lake and let the kids wade in it and experience it all. It was something that I could remember doing with my parents when I was little and wanted them to have that same experience. We left the house around 8 or 9.
Antelope Island
This is what Matthew thought of Antelope Island! The sulfur smell was strong! We got to the beach and saw that it was going to be about a quarter of mile hike to the water. The thermometer read around 100 but we figured we had come all that way and had paid the entrance fee for the park that we were going to make a break for it. We changed the kids clothes because we didn't want theirs getting ruined and Anthony changed and we started our trek. The sand burned our feet as we walked down the hill of sand and across the beach. Families with kids were coming back up and the kids were all crying. The closer we got to the water the more brine files there were. Peter and Andrew were going crazy and running around screaming and crying because the files were sticking to them. We finally got everyone in the water where the files weren't so thick and we all had fun splashing and catching shrimp until the salt from the water starting hurting our legs. We had little scratches from other summer adventures and the salt was getting in it. We started back up the hill and everyone was crying because of the flies. And then we reached the hill and the sand began burning our feet! By the time we got to the van, everyone was miserable and crying! Awesome start to our family vacation!
We them decided to go to Temple Square. We wondered around and saw the Christ statue and looked at the gardens and the replica of the temple in the visitor center.
Matthew had to go to the bathroom so we entertained ourselves.
We were able to go up close to the temple, which I have never done either. A nice senior missionary took our family photo.
We then walked over to City Creek and got some dinner at the Mcdonalds and let the kids play in this awesome playground.
We then went back to our hotel and did some swimming in our hotel.
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