Temple Lights

This past weekend Kyle and I went to Salt Lake City to meet my family and go see the Temple Lights.  My brother Brian and Becca weren't able to make it, but everyone else did.  We all met up to eat at Chuck-a-rama which was crazy busy.  Then we headed off to where my sister was staying to be able to get on the Trax system and ride for free =)  When we were all together it was funny cuz us girls all had our coats on that my parents bought us from their Alaska cruise.  So we had to get a picture together of us in our awesome coats!

 We went up to the Joseph Smith Building to the top and looked down on the Temple and the lights.

Obviously this is Kyle and I in front of the lights.  It was so pretty there.  It was amazing all the trees with the lights on them.  My sister-in-law said she read in an article that they start putting the lights on the trees in October.  I'm not sure when they start taking them down but it takes them till March to finish it.  I can't imagine putting them up.  The colors were so pretty!  My favorite ones were the red ones.

Thank you family for being able to drive out to SLC just to see the lights with us.  We had so much fun hanging out with you all and it was even more special since it was Tracy's birthday!  Thanks again for going!!!!

Living Aquarium

After visiting the Temple Lights Kyle and I decided we would go to the Living Aquarium on Saturday.  It was pretty cool.  I liked it alot more than the one in Vegas.  We went over to the Pengiun area first.  They were so much fun to watch.  There were acouple pengiuns that were so interactive with the crowd.  The one would dive into the water and swim around like he had a ton of caffiene in his system.  He would swim fast in the water and then jump out of the water onto the land. He got to the point were he would almost run into the wall cuz he was going so fast in and out of the water.

 This is the one that was going crazy in the water.  He would stop infront of us and hang out for alittle bit and then go back to swimming like crazy.  If we ever go back I think we will do the pengiun experience and get to see the penguins upclose.

 This picture shows an eel and they had it hooked up to this christmas tree.  When it was stunning it's prey the electricity in the water would light up the christmas tree.  It was pretty cool to watch.

 This aligator was just sitting there staring at all the people going by.  It was kinda creepy.

 This tortoise was HUGE!  It also had a bag glued to its backside.  They said she had been attacked by a shark and then hit by a boat so they glued a bag that has weights in it to keep her from floating to the top.

 They had acouple areas of jellyfish.  One of them were these jellyfish that were upside down.  Their tenticles were floating to the top.  The other one looked like the ones we see on TV all the time.  Just floating around.  The picture of these jellyfish are clear and they had a light hooked up that changed them from blue to red to purple and back to blue.  They were neat to look at it.

 We got to watch them feed this octapus.  They put a plastic treasure chest in the water with food in it and the octapus grabbed it and tried to get the food out.

The seahorses were fun to watch too.  They had a bunch of tanks with these guys in them.  The first one had the biggest ones in it which is the first picture.  I didn't realized they have a fin on their back that moves them around and then they use their tail to hold onto the grass and hang out.  The last picture is of the tank that had the tiniest seahorses ever!  They were so cute!  They had to be the size of a dime or smaller. 

  It was really amazing all the animals, fish, and whatnots that were there.  They had a bunch of fish, frongs, and other things that are native to Utah too.  For the price it is a neat place! I recommend it!

ALIENS

 The day after thanksgiving most people go shopping.  Well since we didn't have anything we needed to go shopping for we decided to take a road trip.  We went out west to find the town of Rachel NV.  We had been out this way  before but hadn't gone all the way to Rachel.  So we packed up the dogs and took some hot chocolate and went to find us some aliens.  The town of Rachel is right on the northern border of Area 51.  Their claim to fame is they have spotted aliens in the sky.  Now we really did know we wouldn't find any aliens so when we got there and there weren't any we weren't that disappointed.  But when we looked the town up on google earth it showed an entire city block with the picure of the KFC guy on it, we were disappointed to find out it wasn't there still.  Oh well it got us out of the house seeing new sites. =)

This is the sign outside of the Little A'Le'Inn.  It is the only store in the town.  Kinda sad they had to attach the space ship to a tow truck in order for it to fly. =)  I was surprised by how many people lived there.

These 2 pictures are of the signs on the border of Area 51.  They have security camera's on the mountains and people with trucks waiting to catch you going over the line.  The first offensive is $600!!! Don't worry we didn't find out by experience.  We got a map back in Rachel that said that.  The whole place made me nervous and I really had to talk Kyle into not going over the line =)

After we visited the border of Area 51 we went on a search for old gold mines.  We found 2.  We only made it to one and it was HUGE!  You could probably drive your truck or car into them.  They went on for miles but I was cold and alittle scared so we didn't go too far in.  We did make it to a the elevator in one of them.  Kyle said he could see to the bottom cuz of the water in the bottom and it looked like it was about 50 stories to the bottom.  It also went way up high too.  We just might have to go back there and check it all out.  They had electricy set up for them but we didn't dare turn it on.

After we had played around those gold mines we took off for Delamare.  We have been to this place numerous times and walked in all of the gold mines there.  This is a picture of one of the buildings still up.  There are alot of buildings still there but this is the most complete one.  We only stayed here for a few minutes cuz we were running out of gas.  After we got gas in Caliente we took off for Delamue Ranch to see some deer.  We had been told they congregated here and really didn't expect to see very many but we were surprised!  There were tons!  We saw a good looking buck and tons of other people checking out the deer.  We got there pretty late so we couldn't take any pictures and couldn't see the deer very well.  We will have to take another trip out there. 

Over all we had a pretty good Thanksgiving. We got to spend it with Kyles family this year. We had dinner on thursday and on saturday we ate with Kyle's step dad's family. The food was good and the company was great.