Thai Visitors

In February we were privileged to share a few days with several visitors from Thailand. I met most of these wonderful people last year and it was fun to see them again and to show them around Disneyland and Utah. This is a picture of the group as we entered Disneyland - Mom Olsen also went with us that day and helped us get fast passes and ride all the best rides. It was a rather cool day but we still had a good time. It was the day after President's Day and the park was pretty busy, too. Next is the picture of us on Tower of Terror - my first time! Everyone was so impressed at how Mom likes all the scary rides and doesn't even look scared!

In Utah, another highlight was a snowmobile trip for the visitors. It was cold, but not too cold and you can see that everyone is well dressed for the weather. They had a fun day riding the machines and of course, a few times had to dig out if they got stuck in the snow.

After touring the corporate offices in Orem, a meeting was held with the visitors and exectutives. Sallee (who works in the office in Bangkok) also came to Utah and helped with translation when needed.
This was Sallee's first time to see snow (as it was for some of the others), we took some pictures in the deep snow before she left.One evening we all had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner at the Hughes home and afterwards were favored by a violin duet by Stewart's and Christopher's daughters. It was a delightful evening. The next evening we enjoyed a delicious dinner featuring Korean and Japanese food at Chistopher's home - we enjoyed our time together very much!

The Big Snow

Here is another picture taken Monday afternoon - a bright, sunny day before one remaining storm predicted for this week. We know there is a sidewalk out there - somewhere.

Well, it kept snowing and snowing. . . we think all told it snowed 18 inches at our house. We were all ready to walk to church because our street hadn't been plowed and we didn't think we could get out of our cul-de-sac, when the snowplow came and plowed us out. So we drove over to church and decided we couldn't get INTO the parking lot on the first 2 driveways we came to (too much snow), so we drove around to the 3rd driveway and it looked a little better - we were able to make it into that driveway - after helping a neighbor who got stuck trying to get into that driveway. There were a few people who got stuck trying to get out of their driveways who didn't make it to church, but most everyone made it. This is a picture taken on Monday afternoon looking out from the porch.

We woke up Sunday morning, Feb 3rd, to more snow! We got outside and shoveled about 8 inches off our driveway. Then our neighbor let us use his snowblower to help some of the other neighbors - this is a picture of Curt trying out this super-strength snowblower - it can throw a lot of snow! The picture doesn't do it justice, by the time I got back with the camera, he was doing a driveway that didn't have much on it! But the good thing is, he is now seriously thinking about getting a snowblower - of course, they are all sold out now because of all the snow. Maybe by next snow season. . . . . .

Let it Snow!

On Monday, January 21, 2008, we woke up to almost a foot of new snow! We have a narrow path to the front door and have given up on finding the sidewalk for now. It snowed most of the morning and more snow is in the forecast. On days like this we remember the great Arizona winters!