I love my husband. I love to celebrate. I love Park City.
I love to celebrate with my husband in Park City.
Oh yeah I also love to eat, shop, get good deals, swim, eat and eat more.
That pretty much sums up our weekend (well...the parts I'm going to tell you about that is).
Before I dig into this post please note that as you are reading this you will probably think to yourself, "
Man, Heidi and Clayton are the biggest pigs alive!" But in my defence and and to justify our actions to myself please read the following statements before continuing.
1. we have a food bucket list that we must dedicate ourselves and our mouths too (and our wallets). It is a goal. We will not let it down. We will eat and conquer!
2. We shared most of the meals with each other and took a ton of food home in boxes...except for the ice cream. There is no such thing as left over ice cream. If you can't finish a shake you are a pansy.
3. Our weekday meals are actually really healthy so we can splurge every once in a while.
4. Our food pallets need culture.
ok here we go...picture overload...again
We left the Valley of the Cache Friday afternoon. Freedom from all responsibilities for a few days. It was a beautiful thing (short lived, but still beautiful nonetheless). We pulled into our hotel (in which I got a killer deal on thanks to Kami and Erik) checked her out and headed out for dinner.
The homestead (also included nice kitchen and super huge jetted tub...saweet)
After checking in and dropping our bags off we headed to mainstreet and
Reef's Kitchen. Not a sole in the restaurant except the chef and the waiter. That usually isn't a good sign, but Park City was dead that weekend so...
Reef's is a Middle Eastern establishment. All the food is cooked by an Israeli chef.
The magazine says to get the Moroccan Salmon. So we did. The food was a little pricier than I would have liked, but we were celebrating so splurging was ok. We also got their homemade curly fries (fan-freaking-tastic) and their sampler plate which consisted of hummus, babaghahouj (try saying that 3 times...or once), smoked eggplant & peppers (tasted like campfire), tahini, and falafel (Clayton's new love). Overall not bad. Taking price into consideration we gave it a 6.5-7 out of 10 rating. Food critics we aspire to be.
The next morning we woke up at 620 am. Not much for sleeping in. We hit the pool and swam some laps. Yes Clayton is swimming laps in the hot tub. We found our lap count higher this way (kidding it laps in the hot tub was for picture purposes only...we think we are funny)
Sexy goggles.
Eat your heat out Michael Phelps!
For breakfast/brunch we went to
The Morning Ray Cafe and got the recommended Scramble.
The Scramble consisted of scrambled eggs (duh), potatoes, sauteed mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes, scallions, black beans, cheese, guacamole, sourcream and salsa on the side.
Seriously it was so good that I regret sharing it with Clayton. If only we could have shared two plates. I'm totally making this at home sometime. Price wasn't bad. We gave it 7.5 or 8 out of 10 rating.
Remember the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Elaine want to bring a Chocolate Bobka to a dinner party and someone in front of them at the bakery buys the last one (JERRY: That was our Bobka. ELAINE: You can't beat a Bobka. JERRY: We should have had that Bobka.)? Well as we were were working off our breakfast by walking down mainstreet we stopped into this little bakery/cafe hoping that they would have some hot chocolate because it was freezing outside and we saw this little beauty and had to buy it. oh yes that is Chocolate BOBKA!. We immediately added it as an honorary member of our food bucket list. Clayton described it by saying that if candy, a cinnamon roll and bread were to have a love child it would be bobka. Luckily we got the chocolate bobka instead of the cinnamon bobka which Jerry and Elaine had to settle for.
Mainstreet in Park City. Did I mention it was freezing??? That day they had a small classic car show that was about 10 cars long.
On to Utah Olympic Park. Saw this in the parking lot and thought it was hilarious. If you can't read it it says, "Please don't laugh it's a rental."
Big ski's. Clayton is standing under them to show you just how big. Wasn't that kind of him!?!
Oh yes! We really are that good!
That's me showing off my mad skiing skills.
After the Ariel show and museum we hit the outlets. Spent waaaay too much time and waaay too much money. We justify it by saying our purchases are "investments". Which they are.
All that shopping made us hungry. Especially all the walking we did while shopping. We left beautiful Park City and headed out for the big SLC and
Pat's BBQ. Totally ghetto location. A hole in the wall some would say. But aren't those the best restaurants? The parking lot was a gravel lot. Subie felt right at home with the off-roading in the lot.
Apparently, Pat's is famous for their Burnt Ends and Meatloaf. Sadly we found out that they only serve the Meatloaf on Wednesday and the Burnt Ends on Friday. I got the 2 meat plate (pulled pork and beef brisket with creole black beans and rice as a side) and Clayton ordered the WHOLE rack of ribs and baked beans as a side. He said that he has never ordered a whole rack of ribs that he couldn't finish. Well...he definitely didn't finish. Our takeout box was so heavy we almost had to carry it to the car with two hands. Both meals were fabulous. Oh and the cornbread...LOVED IT...then again I love anything that has the work "bread" in it.
Pat's was totally worth the money and it wasn't very expensive either for the amount of food you get. We gave it a 10!
In case you thought that we couldn't possibly eat more food...WRONGola! Clayton didn't think he could, but this girl always ALWAYS saves room for ice cream.
Notice the size? Oh yes that's a MINI! A mini overflowing with heavenly goodness. Thanks Tracie for the Raspberry/Oreo tip.
Clayton got the shake-maker to make him a "special" small Rice Krispy Treat shake. If you have been to Ice Berg you know that they don't make anything small (which is the way it should be at an ice cream place). With enough sweet talking from Clayton and permission from the Manager she made him the "
you should feel special - we don't make shakes this size for anyone but our employees" Rice Krispy Treat shake.
CLAYTON:
I don't think you will be able to finish that shake.
HEIDI: Don't second guess my ice cream eating abilities. It offends me.
And finish it I did. All through a straw too. Clayton couldn't finish his special small. Wuss.
Wow! Long post. Congrats if you made it through all this. Pretty sure the only ones who did were mom, grandma and Kami (she just looks at pictures).
Thanks for the great weekend Claytonious. I love you!
If you thought that I would get through an entire post with no action pictures you are smokin' crack. 
In order to keep this post "shorter" I will spare you the details about how hard it was to take this picture. Just know that it was hard. Really hard. Almost broken camera, hard. Almost husband falling in the stream, hard. Almost wife breaking her foot from slipping on a rock, hard. Please enjoy the pic for the sacrifices that were made to bring it to you. 
Yay the waterfall! Pleasantly surprised because I was expecting more of a tricklet than the trickle we saw. Next time I will A) snowshoe to this fall in the winter (I hate you winter) to see it frozen and B) hike to it in the early spring because I'm sure it will be more powerful from all the spring runoff.
See this Chipirrel? I hate it! Stupid rodent! So there I was sitting on a big rock trying to get a good picture of it and set my camera on the down on the rock (I know, know big mistake) while I waited for it to come out again so I could get another picture. Well I shifted my bodonkadonk (that means butt mom) and as gravity would have it my beloved camera tumbled off of the rock and headed down the mountain. Just like a mother would risk her life to save her child from tumbling towards death, so would I for my camera. Unfortunately for my camera there is no CPR, mouth-to-mouth or any other form of First Aid to bring it back to life after hitting 5+ rocks. Dang. Actually the camera still takes pictures, but the screen is totally busted so you can't see what you are aiming at. So all the pictures from here on out (well...until the end of this post) are taken blindly. 
Disturbing news #2 (#1 being the broken camera): if you zoom in on this picture you will see that some of the leaves have started changing colors! Nooooooooooooo....
I guess this is common knowledge to everyone but me (at least that is what Clayton sounded like when he said, "you didn't know that!?!"), but this is a cactus (that is did know) and it is growing in Northern Utah (that is what I didn't know). Interesting.
Like all times when I am feeling down (I broke my camera in case you forgot) I like to drown my sorrows in food. We figured it would be a good time to cross off another food bucket list item off. Off to Warren's Drive Inn we went for their fried mushrooms. 
Not the hugest (it's a word, deal with it) fan of fried foods, but these were ok in small doses. I'm just now seeing in this picture below that Warren's is advertising their new Peanut Butter Kit-Kat shake. Why did I not see this on Saturday??? 
Lastly, I would like to thank my husband for his reaction when I broke the camera. I guess all the "don't get upset about the small stuff in life" lectures I have given him have really paid off. Kudos to me!
