Breakfast at El Tovar

This morning on our way out of the Grand Canyon, we decided to have breakfast at the historic El Tovar hotel. It was actually built by the railroad company when they first started running to the Grand Canyon. It was a great experience and I highly recommend it!






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New shoes old shoes

Holland and I are at the Grand Canyon right now. We hiked partially down and back tonight and are so sore! Here are our shoes prior to starting our hike today. Holland just bought shiny new black hiking boots and I am jealous because mine were shiny and new last summer but look how scuffed up they now are!



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Spring snow

It was 74 degrees yesterday BTW



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Location:E Princeton Ave,Salt Lake City,United States

Life's tough

Jipsy is so tired from her busy day today, which included getting in a huge fight with the cat next door. Holland ran outside to break it up and said there was fur flying. I'm hoping she doesn't have any wounds that will require a vet visit and that the neighbor's kitty is okay. I've pretty much just decided that I can't let her outside anymore.


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Vacation!

Holland started our vacation early! It was in the 70's today and beautiful! We are headed up to Park City tonight to celebrate his brother Rob's birthday and to go skiing tomorrow. Then Sunday we're going to the Grand Canyon! After that it's home to Vicksburg for a few days. Callooh! Callay!




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El Paisa party!

Last night, Holland and I went to El Paisa in West Salt Lake a.k.a. "the Mexican karaoke place." There was no Mexican karaoke last night but there was an awesome band and everyone still spoke Spanish. Here is Holland very happy with a "cantarito," which is very similar to a paloma - Holland's favorite tequila cocktail from Mexico. A paloma involves tequila, lime juice, salt, and grapefruit soda. Holland has had a very hard time finding one that is as good as the ones where we stayed in Guadalajara. The catarito is similar, it just involves some orange and lemon juice in addition to the lime juice and grapefruit soda. It was very good and he was pleased.

And it came in this great little terra cotta urn!

Here is me, with the closest thing there is to a real margarita in Salt Lake City:

The molcajete! A large stone bowl with shrimp, steak, chicken, cactus leaves, jalapenoes, and onions all heated to a very high temperature in a juice of tomatillo and cheese. It serves at least two (if not three or four) and is awesome! We had lots of leftovers.


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Happiness

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