A Quick Trip to Logan

So we decided that we needed to have some type of a family vacation with just the three of us before Ross had to start working full-time again. We really weren't sure what to do or where to go, but we ended up taking a quick trip to Logan. There wasn't necessarily anything there we wanted to do or see, we just wanted to get away from home for a night and go some place different.

On the way up to Logan, we stopped in a little town called Perry and found a park to have a picnic lunch and play on the playground. Leah is getting big enough that she really enjoys playgrounds, but we still have to stay right by her because she still doesn't know how to be careful on the big playground equipment. 

When we got to Logan, we went to the Willow Park Zoo. It's not so much of a zoo as it is a sanctuary for animals who can't live in the wild because of injury or whatever. There weren't many mammals. There were mostly a bunch of birds of all kinds of varieties. 

Here's Leah waiting to go into the Zoo...

 

 

These monkeys were probably one of Leah's favorite things to watch.

I was surprised at how big some of the birds in this zoo were. Here is a huge pelican they had and you can see two big white swans laying down under the tree in the background.

 After the zoo we checked in to our room and then went out for dinner. We decided eat at the Bluebird Cafe. While we were there, Ross told me that it was the restaurant where his parents had their wedding dinner after they got married in the Logan Temple. So it was kind of fun to think of his parents eating there as newly weds 40+ years ago.

Next we went swimming at the hotel pool. It was an outdoor pool and was kind of cool, but we still had fun. Leah loves playing in the water, but mostly wanted to walk back and forth from the pool to the hot tub.

I wish I would have taken some pictures or videos of Leah in our hotel room. It was a pretty basic room, nothing special, but she had such a ball there. The bathroom door had a full-length mirror on it and she loved walking over and seeing herself in the mirror. She would even get up really close and touch her nose and mouth to the mirror. I'm sure it was so dirty by the time we left. She ran back and forth across the room who knows how many times. She LOVED the bed. She had to make sure she laid down on every part of it and had a huge grin on her face the whole time.

After checking out in the morning, we went to Gossner's Cheese Factory. We were hoping to go on a tour or something, but had to settle with trying a few samples and buying some cheese curd and flavored milk instead. Very yummy!

Then we went over to the USU campus. Ross wanted to stop and check out the football stadium.

 

I was surprised that the gates were open and that we could just walk right in and wander all over the bleachers. We probably could have walked right down onto the field if we really wanted to. (For any Leslies reading this, in the second picture Ross is sporting his "game face." You have to click on the picture and zoom in close to see it.)

Just for the record, we are not Utah State University fans. We just figured if we had the chance to check out their stadium, why not. What else is there to do in Logan?

Then we went to the Logan Temple grounds to walk around and enjoy the scenery. It really is a beautiful temple. The architecture is amazing considering how long ago it was built.  

It was getting to be someone's nap time, so she wasn't really in the mood for pictures.

We ended our quick trip with a stop at the Aggie creamery where we got a nice ice cream treat. Another great treat at the creamery was that we ran into my cousin, Eric, that lives in Logan and his little family who just happened to stop in for a treat at the same time we did as part of their family's "staycaction."
We ended our little adventure with a trip to the Provo temple with my cousin, Tyson, and his wife, Aja, who were going for the first time. It was great to be able to be there with them on such a special occasion.

Overall, it was a whirlwind trip. But I'm so glad that we went and got to spend that time together as a family. Maybe next year we will plan a little better and get to go on a longer trip together.