Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day Weekend, we decided to take a trip. This would be the last venture before the baby would be here. We went to Logan, UT to visit Juliene and the family. Becky and Mohammed had returned from Morocco and were staying with her. We ran up there to see the family before Becky and Mohammed moved to Portland, OR and before I had the baby and wouldn't be traveling for a while. While we were there, Juliene and Dale borrowed some canoes from their neighbors. We took them down on the swamps and the family had a blast paddling around. Then the boys got brave and started to jump off the bridge into the water. Yes, this is the bridge from the main road into Logan. All I can say is that our family is CRAZY! But they seemed to have a good time. Howie liked to hang onto the canoe and drag along side it while they paddled along. Sorry if we didn't get everyone's photo. Becky and I stayed home and made the most wonderful Moroccan food ever. Okay, Becky made it and I just helped. I love it so much, but it is very time intensive. Thanks for the yummy treat!

Then we headed back down to SLC and stayed with Julie, Tommy's sister for some time. We visited the (new to us) aquarium in Sandy. It was pretty fun, small and limited animals, but still fun. The highlight was the octopus (which howie calls octoplist). Tommy got some pretty great shots and wondered why everyone kept staring at him with death stares. Later did he realize that there was no flash photography. Sorry animals, hope we didn't blind you octopus. We saw lots of fish from the movie "Nemo" and also the cutest little seahorses. They had a pond where you could pet the stingrays. Tommy and I were able to pet them, but howie's arm wasn't long enough. They were on the bottom of a two foot pond of water. Howie couldn't reach! Maybe next time. This one tank had some beautiful colored fish that played around with you. Tommy enjoyed getting them to stare back at him. Some of them stood with their nose facing his. It was fun to go to the aquarium with howie's cousin seth and aunt Julie.Of course, no trip would be complete without a stop to IKEA. We love that store. We did find some lovely barstools for our house and of course had to eat a cinnamon roll. We were going to get some take-out food from Bombay House in Provo (our favorite place for Indian food) but they weren't open until dinner and we were passing through at lunch time. Maybe next time. Or maybe if some of our relatives are headed down for the weekend they would be so kind to bring us some!! **hint hint** Well, anyway, it was a very fun weekend and we were glad to be able to see so much family.