Jeremy's visit

My brother is applying for a job here in Salt Lake, and before he made the final decision to apply, he came to Utah this summer to check it out. Which means Uncle Jeremy stayed with US for a whole week! It took Bentlee about 30 seconds to start following him around. Any time he would leave the room she'd throw her hands up in the air and say, "Uh oh!" And every time he walked back in she would beam. She LOVES house guests.

We did lots of fun things to assure him that Utah is a fun place to live.

1. We went to Seven Peaks (a water park) in Salt Lake. We went the day of the Rubber Ducky Derby for the Make a Wish Foundation, so we had free tickets. I happen to have a small fear of big water slides, so Bentlee and I watched the duckies race while Jeremy and Kyle played on the slides.

You won't believe me, but I promise this picture is real

Eventually we made our way over to some slides that I was willing to go on, and even found some kiddie slides for Bentlee that were faster and much more slippery than we realized. She officially takes after mommy in the water slide department and had some choice words gibberish for us when her head came up out of the water.

Bentlee got her own wristband, and it's things like this that really get me...

2. The next day we went to the cabin with the Wiggins and Wardell's for a couple nights. Jeremy went wake boarding for the first time, and got up on his third try.

As always, we ate yummy food and lounged around

We didn't even take time to do our hair

3. We weren't about to let Uncle Jeremy get bored, so as soon as we returned from the cabin we headed to the Living Planet Aquarium. Out of all the cool things that were there (ie: sting rays, sharks, octopus, otters, penguins, etc.) the trout were her favorite. She's pretty easy to please.

Oh, and the penguins were her other favorite. Not the real ones that we saw through the glass, but these on the wall...

4. Perhaps the most exciting event of the week was after I dropped Jeremy off with Martin at ARUP and my car broke down in the middle of Salt Lake City. Not only did it ruin my shopping plans, but it took away a little bit of Jeremy's time with Martin which was the whole reason for his trip. They saw everything that Jeremy really wanted to, but Martin was going to show him around the University he could potentially attend and take him to lunch. The good news, despite Martin's sweet offers to drive us home, is that we took the train home, something Bentlee and I hadn't yet done. And of course, she was a fan:

5. We went to Cafe Rio (obviously). And, we went a second time. This picture was taken at the airport right before we flew with Jeremy back to Michigan. Unfortunately airport Cafe Rio is NOT the same. Lesson learned.

6. We also took Jeremy tubing down the Provo River, which we don't have pictures of. That day was Kyle's birthday, so more on that later.

Not bad for an 8 day trip right? The one thing he had requested doing was hiking, but the timing never worked out. I promised him we would take him on some cool hikes if/when he moves here in January. We'll be SO excited to have Uncle Jeremy so close to us!