The Rare and Special Place

Doesn't this sort of remind you of a witch's house?

Way back at the beginning of the summer (you can tell it's old by Lucy's lack of hair) Logan and I went to a rare and special place.  It's this beautiful wetland in west Layton where you can walk out on the board walk, and go up to the observation deck (pictured above). 

It really is beautiful, and we had a fun time walking and taking pictures of passing birds.  Although we did discover that our jogging stroller's alignment is WAY off. And by WAY off, I mean we were off the edge of the boardwalk in six steps!  As you can see, we ditched the stroller and ended up carrying Lucy on our shoulders for most of the way (which could also be due to the fact that Lucy would scream whenever we put her in the stroller).

Family self-portrait!

Also at the beginning of the summer (maybe I should blog more often...) we went up to Promentory Point to watch my Uncle Eric in a shooting competition.  Basically they shoot really old guns using bullets they made themselves and use only metal sights to aim.  It was pretty impressive.  The target was a metal buffalo that was over 1,000 yards away.  It took the bullet about 4 seconds to reach it.  It was insane.  I tried to draw an arrow on the picture above to point to the buffalo, but the arrow is kind of small.  Pretty much, you could barely see the buffalo without looking through a scope.  It was really cool.  Plus Lucy was an amazingly good sport -- she wasn't bothered at all by the loud noise of the guns. 

After, we drove over to the Spiral Jetty since we were so close.  If you have never been, it is definitely worth going.  Check it out!