Today was Dawn’s last day with us and we wanted to send her off with a bang, so we headed over to the Utah Olympic Park. It’s a winter sports park built for the 2002 Olympics. But, now they use it as an Olympic training center and they have an “adventure park” that’s open to the public. A $75 gold pass gives you unlimited use of their alpine slide, zip lines, high ropes course, extreme tubing (tubing down their 60m and 90m ski jumps), and a bunch of other things.
It was super fun! I was a chicken, but Dawn & Jimbo went down the slides. I did the high ropes course. It was scary, but I’m so glad I pushed myself out of my comfort zone to do it. If you know me, you know I’m a scaredy cat. But, they say life happens on the other side of your comfort zone, so I’m really trying to push myself to do things I would never do before. I’m tired of sitting on the sidelines watching other people have fun. I pray God will give me courage!
For dinner we went to the Wasatch Brewery. The food was excellent. I tried a flight of their beers. They had a jalapeño beer and a strawberry blond ale that were super interesting. They also had a dark beer called “Polygamy Porter” (we are in Utah) that was very much like the Guinness you get in Ireland (the bottled Guinness you get here in the states is different).
After dinner we walked along the streets of the beautiful little town of Park City. They had a Bansky piece on one of their walls that they put behind plexiglass. It was cool to see one of his original works in person. I looked for them all over when we were in England and Paris, but wasn’t able to find one.
There was a Sotheby’s real estate office with some of their listings in the window and our minds were blown when we saw the prices of some of the homes in this area. One place was $10.5M! You could probably travel the whole world 100 times for that kind of money. As beautiful as that place was, I would rather collect memories & experiences than things. “Travel is the one thing you buy that makes you richer.”