City Creek Mall

While visiting Ben's family we decided to go and see the new City Creek Mall.  We hadn't see it yet and had only heard how amazing it is.  Ben's parents live in Syracuse Utah and we could take frontrunner into Salt Lake, which we had never done before either.

Reese was especially excited to ride a train.  That is how we bribed her to take her nap{we are all about bribes}.

We loved riding frontrunner because it was something different than the same old drive down to Salt Lake.  Reese and Benson loved staring out the window watching the towns go by.  It was also super quick and once we got into Salt Lake we could just hop right onto Trax and ride it into downtown Salt Lake.

Kallie, Danny, and Wes came with us and the first stop was the Disney store.  Reese was in heaven!  She walked right into their miniature castle and gasped and then a HUGE smile crossed her face.  She picked up one of the pink princess wands and carried it around the rest of the time we were in the store.

She seriously loved the Disney store.  The only bad thing was she wandered off really quickly and she got lost really easily.  Thank goodness we had a lot of eyes watching her.  At the end of our time at the Disney store Reese grabbed her cousin Wes and they went back into the castle and had a tea party.  They grabbed cups, silverware, and anything else they could use to have a tea party.

After we finally convinced Reese that is was time to go, we headed outside and ran into the actor Corbin Allred {the main actor in Saints and Soldiers}.  I tried pointing him out to everyone but they didn't see him.  But we did run into him again on Trax and I pointed him out to everyone.  I was just too shy to get a picture with him, but there is my claim to fame!

We then went over to the play place and let the kids run and climb and play.  Reese and Wes were in heaven.  Benson got pushed over by a little boy and there were kids everywhere, but we did find a safe place for him to play . . . right inside an egg!  He was as happy as could be!

Then we met Brad {Ben's dad} at Olive Garden and had a WONDERFUL dinner.  Jan was going to ride back with Brad to the house and the rest of us were going to take the frontrunner back to Syracuse.  The waitress told us to go on 2nd South to take Trax back to the frontrunner station, so we did.  Unfortunately Trax was nowhere to be seen.  We decided to make a run for it.  We had about 15-20 minutes to make it before the train left.  If we missed the train we would have to wait ANOTHER hour before we could go home.

So we ran.   Four adults and three children running through the streets of Salt Lake.  Thankfully we had strollers otherwise I don't think we would have made it.  We made it with about 4 minutes to spare.  My lungs were on fire and my face and ears and legs were freezing but we had made it.  Such a fun memory now but I really didn't think it was too funny as we were running through the cold dark streets of Salt Lake.