Gorgeous Day for a Drive

Ted decided we were in a rut. So, to kind of fix that rut, one of the things he suggested was to take a drive and look at the colors up in the mountains and in the canyons.

We drove up to Park City. We went to the St. Regis and went up the funicular and took some beautiful photos up there. I took a lot of pictures and Ted probably took twenty times what I did. We saw how the "beautiful people" live. The guy who owns Papa Johns owns the entire top floor of that hotel. He spent millions and millions to buy it. From there, we drove up to Stein Erickson. It's so beautiful right now - my favorite time of year.

We then rode up by Jordanelle Reservoir - only for a second. From there we went through Heber. I kind of like to go to places that really can't be visited when you're at home. No Wendys, no Carl's Jr., no KFC, no McDonalds (OK, we can go get the $1 soda there, but that's it!!).

So we drove through looking for a diner, drive in or dive. Something that the locals know and love, but, we've never been there. At the opposite end of town, we found just the place.

It's called Hubs Diner. Out on the sign, it said something about peach pie - so I told Ted that since we were on an adventure, we needed to have pie!! Ted had the seaburger (in other words, a fish sandwich). I had the soup, salad and bread.

The vegetable beef soup was somewhat tasty, but, the bread was pretty dang yummy. And of course, because we were celebrating an adventure, we had peach pie. Oh my gosh - - that was delish!!!

When our lunch was done, we went up through Midway, past Soldier Hollow and up by Deer Creek Reservoir. Just coming around the corner, I could see the reservoir.

I wasn't sure body of water it was, but, knew it was a lovely area. Then, when we came around the corner, you could see these huge kites up in the air.

I had just seen the same thing last week when we were in Tampa - people kite surfing on the bay. Well, people were kite surfing on the reservoir. I could have watched that for hours!!!!

The wind would pick these guys up and they would fly twenty to thirty feet up in the air. They would twist and turn and then splash back down into the water. It was so cool and amazing. Made me kind of wish I was thirty years younger and brave enough to try it. When I thought about doing it, all I could think of is the fact that my muscles would not allow me to move the next morning.




We followed the reservoir around and up to Provo Canyon. I already told Ted that we had to go to Bridal Veil Falls.

We stopped and took pictures. The colors in all the canyons and on all the hills were so amazing.

I love this time of year, it's so amazing to see Mother Nature's color palate on full display.

Thanks Honey for getting us our of a rut. It was an awesome day!!