How do you feel about the Great Salt Lake?

Floating in the salty lake is fun...

the salt brine eating gnats were gross...this is the small amount that had gathered in the first two minutes...I didn't realize it was a merely a small portion of the swarm that was to come...

The lovely spiders under the eves of the bathroom facility were...interesting...and apparently a social gathering spot for these fellows - there were at least 20, maybe more...

All in all, an adventure to be sure. We parked, we saw MANY spiders hanging out, walked about a mile across the sinking sand to get to the water, were assaulted by gnats that made a scattering sound as we walked through them, rising in a dark cloud, played in the water for 15 minutes, ate lunch for 15 minutes...after walking part of the way back toward the cars to escape the relentless gnats, and took the trek back to the spider infested bathrooms and parking lot. Truly a day that won't soon be forgotten :-)

Reporting in...

After school I love to ask the kidlings how their day went, what happened, and what they need to work on. TODAY - Jas got home from school and I asked him how his day was. "It was Epic!", he replied....OK then. I asked what made the day "epic". He said that the mint brownies he made for French class were a huge hit, they watched "Ratatouille" in another class, his team won all three games they played in PE, and the fourth class was just great fun today. A truly EPIC day!

Tiff came in a few minutes later. I asked her how HER day went. She said "It was epicly non-heinous". Huh? "So what made it epicly non-heinous?" I asked. Apparently, she got a sugar cube in science class, and it tasted good, CTE was fun, the art teacher is hilarious, and math was awesome.

So, today was EPIC and NON-HEINOUS. I'm sure glad my children have such extensive vocabularies, and aren't afraid to use them!