The Great Salt Lake

Since we've moved back to Utah, we've made it a tradition to head out to Antelope Island at least once a summer. It's a really good place to go stargazing if the moon is dark. But also, it has some really great sunsets, and the water is usually very smooth, reflecting incredibly the beauty of the sky.  The kids like to chase the brine flies (Sounds gross, I know. But they're harmless and it is fun to watch the swarms scatter.) And if you go to the right place it doesn't smell like an outhouse. Win!

RicAnn and Dave have been out here for a couple of weeks, and Covid has made visiting with them complicated. Anyway, we invited them to the lake with us. The moon was almost full so we didn't stargaze, but the sunset was beautiful. Uncle Dave taught Lilla how to skip rocks. Kit loved playing in the sand in her feety jamies. The three oldest boys striped down to their skivvies (it was almost dark and no one else was on the beach) and went way out in the lake, thus earning their "Utah Man Card" according to Uncle Dave. The super salty water I'm sure felt great, :| eek, but they had a good time. The girls spent a lot of time taking pictures-making fun poses with our silhouettes. As we were walking to the car to leave, there were several buffalo! That was surprising and a little scary, but they weren't interested in bothering us, lucky for us.

Who's who?

Can you see the 3 itsy bitsy specks of boys way out in the lake?