The Hendricksen's: Cousin Camp

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Cousin Camp

This was one of the highlights of summer....for me at least. I dont think the kids or Scott would say the same...but I had a great time!! My cousins that I grew up with decided to take a little trip up to Park City and stay in a condo and just have a Girls Night. It was AWESOME!!! I love love loved it and I hope we do it every year. It was so fun just to get together with them and talk, eat, gossip (oh we would never do that...) and do some things I NEVER in my life would have done with out the peer pressure. We started the night out in Lehi and went to Panda Express for dinner. YUMM-O. Then off to get gas. For some odd reason this took A LONG TIME. Oh yes, I remember...because Ashley came from Oregon...and in Oregon you dont pump your own gas so there she sat..waiting for a good long time for someone to pump her gas. I was pulled up waiting for her...I wondered what was taking her so long. But finally..she got herself some gas and we were on our way. We had lots of time waiting in the car...so we were taking pictures of ourselves...heres my car load

My cousin Mandy, my sister Kym and me!!

After we got to PC we went to the store and stocked up on treats. Never have I had some many treats to choose from! But thats basically what we did the rest of the night... Talked, ate treats and played games. It was awesome.

By the time we got to bed it was about 4 am. And I got to learn how fun Casey is when she doesnt get enough sleep...let me tell you..she is not fun at all. But she got over it. We started the morning getting breakfast/lunch at a place called Squatters. MM MM Good! That place takes a long time to get your food to you...but its worth the wait. I thought their food was delish!

Then off to the Alpine Slide. Or so I thought. When we got up there we (I guess not we...but I went along with it) decided to get tickets to do not only the Alpine slide, but the roller coaster and the zip line. My stomach was in my throat. Im not a thrill seeker AT all. And even thinking about doing the Alpine Slide was giving me anxiety...Lets not add to that that you have to ride the ski lift up. I thought I might die.

Then off to the zip line!! This line didnt look long...but it took FOREVER to get through it. Only two people can go down at a time and it was BLAZING HOT. We were in line for two hours. We had lots of time to get to know the people around us.

I wasn't too nervous until they were putting me into the harness. I felt my legs buckle and I began to shake. I was SURE these teenage kids were not buckling me in right and I was going to be falling to my death. But I made it. And it was awesome. Only one small hang up.....I stopped before the end of the line and they had to get out the safety rope and pull me in...that was a little embarassing...

Ashley and Mandy

Kym

Me (Casey was taking the pictures. Thanks Casey!)

After we downed a $3 bottle of water we were off to the roller coaster. You got on your own little cart and was able to control how fast or slow you wanted to go down. This was an awesome ride too.

After all that we went shopping a little. But everything was WAY more expensive then our tastes so we went to where our tastes would be appreciated and got some ice cream at cold stone. MM MMM MMMMMMMMMMM

What a great great two days. I loved every minute of it. Thanks Scott for taking care of the kiddos so I could go!!!

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