Wedding Excitement!

Our Honeymoon:

We went to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and stayed at the Marriott's Beach Place Towers. It was a great place to stay. Thanks Dad for hooking us up!

This is a view from the hotel out to the ocean. They had a bunch of shops and vendors walking to the beach. It was fun to look at some of them. They even sold alligator heads!

Along the street of our Hotel they have a bunch of Restaurants and Swim Shops.
"Tuck that thing in boy or your gonna get it caught on a trip wire"
Who said it and what movie?

We had the chance to eat at a couple of places. It was really good and it was nice to sit by the beach and eat.

The beach was so nice. The sand was nice and the water was so warm!

We did see some strange things though on the beach.

One day we went to the Everglades to go on an Air boat ride. They also had a little exhibit of animals. They had some pretty big Alligators! Sad to say the ones in the exhibit were the only ones we saw. We didn't spot any on the air boat ride.

Also for donating $2 we got to hold a baby alligator. It looked more like a teenager alligator than a baby. I wasn't too sure about holding one, but I did!

Another day we drove down to Miami & Miami Beach and went to all of their great shops. Ben was excited to see this store there. They have some crazy stuff. It was fun to go in.

Downtown Miami

Too bad Basketball hadn't started yet. That would have been fun to go to a game and see D wade get his game on,

but we got to go to a baseball game in the Land Shark Stadium. The Marlins played the Phillies.

Ryan Howard is one of the best players in the Major Leagues so it was fun to see him play and he had his usual good game.

On the airplane we met a lady who was from Florida and she gave us a great list of places to go. One she wrote down was Saw Grass Mills Mall. It was one of the biggest malls I have ever been too. They had so many stores and they also had a Rain Forest Cafe so we ate there.

It was a great trip. And very relaxing. It was really hard to come back home and face reality! Hopefully we will get the chance to go on another trip again soon!

We haven't gotten all of our wedding pictures from our photographer yet, but here is a link to her blog with her favorites that she posted, and also the ones that my dad took that day if you haven't seen them yet:
For Harmony's Photography click here
For my dad's click here

Also if you would like to see our engagement pictures that my dad took click here

Brit and I went up the canyon today (9/30/09) to check out the newly fallen snow up on the Mtns. Here are from before and after pictures. The snow is here! Yeah baby!

Tuesday

Some dedicated kids "getting theirs"

Hot August Nights

Quick update on what has been going on lately.

The Tour of Utah is a big Road Bicycle race here in Utah. It actually comes right by the house so I got the schedule and looked at the time they were supposed to pass by. I went down to the road and along with a handful of others we cheered them on as they road by. It's pretty amazing how fast they go, and I imagine they keep the same pace the whole time. Yesterday I think they road like 100 miles!

And there they go up the canyon. With all of the support vehicles following.

(Click on photos to enlarge)

David Zabriske, A utah native and world class cyclist riding for Garmin Slipstrem.

Floyd Landis riding for Team Ouch. Floyd actually won the Tour de France a few years back but was accused of doping and had it taken away.

The Peloton

Brit had her B-day on Aug. 11th. I had a surprise party for her. Nikita.

Random Non-riding MX Photos from the other day.

Ragnar and Havasupai

Here are photos from the last few weeks, Jen and I ran the Ragnar a week and a half ago. It's a relay race from Logan to Park City. It was pretty hard, but a fun experience.

Finish Line

Running down Deer Valley Ski resort, my last of 3 legs, this one was 7.3 miles

Jens 2nd run, at night. She didn't like running by herself at night, but she did a great job and had a few really hard legs. I was proud of you Jen!

My 1st leg, running up old Snowbasin road.

Jen running

This past weekend I went to Havasupai with Travee and a few buddies. It's in the bottom of the Grand canyon and is located on an Native American Reservation. It was an 11 hr drive, past Vegas and a 10 mile hike but well worth it. So beautiful!

Beaver Falls, about another 3 mile hike from where everyone camps.

It was really green in the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

Havasu Falls.

There was an LDS chapel in the small village. We went on Sunday to the only service they have, Sac. Mtg. Sad to say though it was pretty boring, even for Utah standards. But my view from my seat in Sac. Mtg was awesome of the enormous red cliffs!

Part of the Crew.

One of my Fav. photos of the trip.

The dreaded switchbacks

Travee and I slept in the parking lot along with a ton of other people, not very comfortable

Hoover Dam was awesome at night

Video of Havasu falls, early in the morning when we got up.