Happy first official couple days of Fall everyone! Fall is by far my favorite season. Why? Because my birthday resides in this season, the weather is positively perfect, the leaves are gorgeous, and everything glows (my mom just told me this is because of the way the earth is tilted in the Fall, so it's not just the golden leaves that make it glow, there truly is one). So really, what's not to love about it?
So people from Salt Lake... Here's a Fall list all laid out for you to go do. My problem is not ever really knowing what fun seasonal activities are out there, but once I know, it's fun and easy to just go do it! We will be doing all of these things if it's the last thing I do. Anyone want to join? Be. My. Guest. Baby! And if you have any other fun ideas, please leave them in the comment section!
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-Download a good CD, drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon, and take Gaurdsman Pass Backway (it's an amazing finished paved road now for those who didn't know!) to Midway and get hot chocolate at Matty's Bistro at The Zermatt. I've heard their hot chocolate is bomb. The changing leaves are absolutely spectacular surrounding Guardsman Pass in the Fall, like for real. You need to go.
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-Ride the Heber Creeper for their Pumpkin Festival! It's a 40 minute train ride where you're accompanied with people in costume. Once you're at the depot you can go through a haunted car, get a tatoo (oh ya baby!), and then head to a pumpkin patch to pick out a pumpky boo.
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-Head to Cornbelly's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Festival at Thanksgiving Point. There looks like there's about five million fun things that Radcliff would love there and I have never been! Radcliff... me, you, Daddy... pumpkin sack slide. It's a date!
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-Head to Boo at the Zoo at Hogle Zoo for a little candy action! Kids 12 and under get to trick-or-treat in costume at different booths they have set up among creepy, craaaaaawling critters!
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-Head to Homestead Nursery (no pun intended) and go through their haunted gardens where they have all of their many trees wrapped in tons and tons of lights. You can pick out a fresh pumpkin there and get free popcorn and it's free admission as well! We bought our trees from this nursery and it really is the sweetest older couple ever that live there and they put on their Halloween show throughout the month of October. They say they get hundreds of people so it must be good and their backyard is to die for. I think this one's a must!
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-Go to Hatch Family Chocolate downtown and get one of their mouth watering hot chocolates (made with their solid chocolate), a caramel apple, and walk around the Avenues to see the beautiful trees, and the houses I dream about living in one day.
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-Head up the canyon, light up a bonfire and cook a big old dutch oven followed by lots of s'mores. And then a hike. If we don't eat too many s'mores. Who wants to hike in a food coma? Not I.
That's all she wrote.
