Sundance Scenic Lift

My Mother-In-Law, Marie, always has such fun ideas to spend time together. She loves to find things that don't cost a lot of money, but she gets pretty creative with her ideas on what we can do. Well, a little while ago (because she also likes to plan things super ahead of time) she text me that her and her husband would be down for the weekend and she'd like to get together with us at some point. I text her a bunch of ideas of things we could do and one of the things I mentioned was a scenic lift up at Sundance. I didn't think she'd go for it because it can get pretty pricey, but I was surprised when she said she'd like to. She also mentioned we could also meet up at a splash pad and do a picnic lunch, which I thought would be fun for the kids.

We first met up at a splash pad down in Provo. It was really busy and not very big, but the kids really liked it. We ended up having to do a real picnic and eat on the grass since the tables were all taken up. The shade was taken up too, so we ended up on this hill, which wasn't the most comfortable, but we made it work. Marie always brings a trove of food with her when we plan these things so we were definitely well fed, haha. We found out that Pierce is back to loving string cheese again (he ate like 4 or 5) and that the kids REALLY love getting wet (especially Gwen...she just loves an excuse to get soaking wet).

Once we finished lunch, we drove up to Sundance; I love driving through Provo Canyon! This resort, though...wow! It is SO beautiful! We saw part of a wedding going on and man do I wish I had found that place when planning my wedding. I joked with the kids that if they choose to get married I hope one of them will get married up there because it's such a pretty backdrop for pictures. Lucy said she'll marry me there, as long as we don't go on a hike she'll fall on, but she is okay with doing the zipline, haha!

Doing the scenic lift was so cool, way more exciting than I expected. It had really beautiful views. I really enjoyed that part of the day. Part of the Connect Pass has the Snowbird lift & lunch that we plan to do later this year (originally we planned for December, but October might be more fun to see the changing leaves...maybe?) so now I'm really excited to see that one and how it compares.

If you are thinking of doing this, I highly recommend it. The views are beautiful and there's a restaurant at the top to do lunch or dinner at. I wish I had known, I might have planned that, but it's all good (we ended up there as they were trying to close things down so we didn't really have a lot of time to stop anyways).