Honeymoon

Jeff and I stayed at the Johnson Mill in Midway. If anyone is looking for a great romantic getaway, we highly recommend it. When we were looking for a place to stay for our honeymoon, a lot of places were really cheesy with their room decorations. The rooms at the Johnson Mill are tastefully decorated. We also enjoyed that it was family owned. Some of my favorite things were: delicious breakfasts outside by a waterfall every morning, a pond with swans and paddle boats, spotting deer on the property when we went for walks, and a HUGE movie selection in the basement.
While we were at Midway, we went and did something fun every day. On Wednesday we swam in a crater at the Homestead. If you'd like to know more about that (it's kinda hard to explain), you can check out the Homestead's website. On Thursday we rode down the Alpine Slide and the Alpine Coaster in Park City. My favorite was the slide - I had done it once before and had always wanted to do it again. The coaster was a lot faster than we were expecting. At times it felt like we were about to go flying off of the track! On Friday we rode on the Heber Creeper Train. Creeper is the right word. It was ... kind of cool to say that we've ridden on an old-fashioned train, but it's definately something we're not dying to do again. But one thing that was cool was that it wasn't very crowded, so we ended up with an entire car to ourselves (except for when a few kids would run up and down the aisle, but they didn't stay for long).
We had a special visitor at the Johnson Mill that we certainly weren't expecting. That visitor was a bat ... in our room. We came back to our room on Thursday night after getting some ice cream only to find a bat flying around the ceiling. It wasn't completely unexpected, because they had a sign in the room reminding guests that they were sleeping in a renovated mill, and it wasn't uncommon for bats to come in if you left your doors or windows open. Only thing is, we never left our doors or windows open, so we were really puzzled how it got in (and we also wondered if it had been with us the past two nights as well and we just never noticed). Well, we called the manager and he came over with some nets, but there was no sign of the bat. We discovered a small opening in the ceiling in one part of the room where we thought it got in (from the attic, most likely). Since the bat hadn't been caught, and there was no way to guarantee it wouldn't come back and visit us while we were sleeping, the manager let us stay in another room that was empty that night.
This turned out to be a blessing in multiple ways. First of all, it was the most expensive room at the Johnson Mill, so it was REALLY nice. That was fun in and of itself. Then we found out the next morning that the couple that was in the room next to our original room had brought their 5 month old baby with them and she kept them up most of the night (and probably would have kept us up, too).
Overall, we had a lot of fun this past week. We had fun relaxing, watching the Olympics and movies, playing games (we brought a whole backpack full of games), and eating out. It was definately a fun, memorable week.