Thursday, August 13, 2015

Return to Budapest


This past July, my parents and I returned to one of my favorite European cities, Budapest!  This time we brought Karin, Ricky, Andrew, John, Ben, and Will with us, we couldn't wait to show them around our favorite city sites.  We spent the morning at the city park touring through the natural history museum which is housed in a miniature castle that is modeled after Dracula's castle.  I took most of my pictures of this beautiful park last year, I didn't want to take too many repeat pictures so click HERE to see my post and pictures from our visit last year.








I was loving Ben's professional photographers stance








After the museum we took some paddle boats out on the lake, the boys had a total blast. 






















After paddling around in the hot, hot sun, we couldn't wait to get to the Szcheny Baths and cool off in one of the 30 different thermal pools.  We spent most of our time in the three outdoor pools.  I tried out one of the cold indoor pools, it felt amazing after being so hot in the sun at the city park.  Ricky, Andrew, Ben and Will made it a goal to test out every single pool, inside and out!  









After a long, fun filled day, we couldn't wait to get back to the hotel to have a lovely dinner out on the patio.  We all ordered different flavors of lemonade. my favorite was the elderflower flavor.




Jet lag + a full day of swimming = not being able to make it through dinner without a nap.  I wanted to lay down and join him.





Surprisingly, this was not the end of our day.  After dinner, we headed to St. Stephens for a special organ concert, had beautiful rose shaped gelato, and a ride on the farris wheel to see all the pretty city lights.  We know how to cram a day full of lots of fun! Stay tuned for the next post, which will have  pictures from all of those fun activities!


Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Blue Flower Fields Forever


This past June I had the wonderful experience of exploring a new Utah wonder with Bethy and Reece. We drove about 2 hours south of my house in Lehi to this itty bitty town that is right next to a gorgeous canyon.  This canyon is the home of endless, breath taking fields bursting with millions of blue wild flowers.  Beth and Reece wanted to take some photos to celebrate their ten year anniversary, they looked so beautiful!  Here is just a sample of some of the fun pictures we captured of our marvelous afternoon!
























I wouldn't mind turning this into an annual tradition!  It would be fun for the tripod +1 to have another fun photoshoot next year, I would love to watch baby V frolick in those blooms.