Swiss Days and Silverlake

Yesterday we decided to get out and do something fun. Mistie had mentioned that Midway was celebrating their Swiss Days so we decided to pack up and see exactly what "Swiss Days" had to offer. It was a beautiful drive up through Heber Valley and it was nice to just get out as a family. We paid a nice lady $3 to park on her lawn because the place was packed. We followed the herds of people until we came upon the park with all the celebrations. Tons and tons of people were enjoying all of the great shopping (some of the cutest crafts i've seen in awhile)and all of the delicious food. We shopped around a bit and then decided to grab (okay actually stand in line for about 30 minutes) a "swiss taco" which was actually a scone like thing with chilli, cheese, onions and tomatoes on top. I thought it was pretty good although Ryan was skeptical but he did manage to clean his plate! We looked around a little more and decided it was just too hot to stay any longer so we snagged some cotton candy and headed on our way. Overall it was a fun experience although i'm not sure we will ever venture out to Swiss Days again!


Later that night Ryan convinced me to go on a ride with him up to Silverlake up American Fork canyon. We stopped by Costco and grabbed a slice of pizza and we were on our way. While walking through Costco I saw they had gotten new Pj's in for Jack and I snagged him a new pair. (the pj's come into play later in the story I promise!) On the way up the canyon we passed several ambulances, cops, and other random emergency vehicles. Ryan commented that somebody must have had a bad day up the canyon. We continued on our "terrible" ride (I get sick on windy dirt roads) until we rounded the bend to the lake. When we got there we saw another cop sitting on the side of the road with a group of bystanders around him. When we started driving past I looked over the edge and down the ravine to what they were looking at and this is what we saw....

I know it's kind of hard to tell but apparently this guy had tried to turn his truck around and didn't have enough room so his car started sliding down the ravine. He got out to assess the situation and the truck continued on down without him. It jumped a cement barrier went through the fence and landed at the bottom of this spillway in the creek. It was pretty crazy to see the truck clear down there! Apparently nobody had seen him get out before the truck went down so they called ambulances and everybody to come rescue him but luckily was just fine. Somehow he had left the scene in another car so nobody knew what had happened or if he was okay. While we were there he happened to show up to try and drive it out of there but they had no luck! So that was our exciting evening out.



Jack enjoyed eating rocks and rolling in the dirt! He is such a little boy! So luckily (back to the pj's) I had bought his new jammies and brought tons of baby wipes or he would still be sitting at Silverlake because there was no way that dirtball was getting back in his new carseat with those clothes on!