Ryan's company had their Christmas party this last week up in Park City (well actually Midway) at the Zermatt resort. It is a beautiful swiss style resort that is tucked back in a cute little neighborhood were the houses have a similar exterior style. We got a room and spent the night at the resort which was fun.
The room also had signature swiss style paintings and art. Most of my ancestors are from Sweden in-fact my maiden name of Lund is swedish and there is a town by that name in sweden, but it is pronounced differently there then we pronounce it here. I have often joked about how strong my swedish and dutch roots and heritage must be for me so many generations removed to be so addicted and attracted to things like Ikea. So my attraction to the look and feel of the resort was no surprise to Ryan or I.
Outside they had these cool ice sculptures which I guess they are making and creating for an ice castle they are going to have there. It looks like it will be really cool when they are finished.
Before the party we got to take Jayna on a horse drawn sleigh ride in the snow. We bundled her all up in her new snow suit and prepared to freeze. It was about 4 below when we went out for the ride. You could hardly even see her because we had her scarf over her nose and her coat hood pulled down. She loved it though and for the first half yelled "Weeeeee" and raised her arms up in the air over her head as if on a roller-coaster. She was pretty awestruck by the big white horses pulling us and she didn't seem to mind the cold like the rest of us. It was about a 30 minute ride around an open field and trail. It was picture perfect and had an old-fashion christmas feel to it.
The Christmas party was a very typical company party. It was very nice though and had great food catered by the resort. They had gifts they gave away with a drawing and lucky me Ryan won a message at a Park City Spa. So I will be headed back up in the near future. Jayna was well behaved at the dinner, at least as well behaved as a little girl that age could be. When she would get too many wiggles towards the end of the night we would get her a piece of cheesecake or chocolate cake, and that would keep her quiet for awhile. I think she ate about two whole slices all by herself. Heck it was a party, so we let her go wild with the sweets. Then before we left for the night we let her dance to the live music which she was very interested in. I am sure the party went on for hours after we left, but it had been a party enough for this little family.
Outside they had these cool ice sculptures which I guess they are making and creating for an ice castle they are going to have there. It looks like it will be really cool when they are finished.
Before the party we got to take Jayna on a horse drawn sleigh ride in the snow. We bundled her all up in her new snow suit and prepared to freeze. It was about 4 below when we went out for the ride. You could hardly even see her because we had her scarf over her nose and her coat hood pulled down. She loved it though and for the first half yelled "Weeeeee" and raised her arms up in the air over her head as if on a roller-coaster. She was pretty awestruck by the big white horses pulling us and she didn't seem to mind the cold like the rest of us. It was about a 30 minute ride around an open field and trail. It was picture perfect and had an old-fashion christmas feel to it.
The Christmas party was a very typical company party. It was very nice though and had great food catered by the resort. They had gifts they gave away with a drawing and lucky me Ryan won a message at a Park City Spa. So I will be headed back up in the near future. Jayna was well behaved at the dinner, at least as well behaved as a little girl that age could be. When she would get too many wiggles towards the end of the night we would get her a piece of cheesecake or chocolate cake, and that would keep her quiet for awhile. I think she ate about two whole slices all by herself. Heck it was a party, so we let her go wild with the sweets. Then before we left for the night we let her dance to the live music which she was very interested in. I am sure the party went on for hours after we left, but it had been a party enough for this little family.
The next morning we packed up the car in the 11 below weather and headed back down the canyon. We stopped for breakfast and did some additional Christmas shopping and called it a great time had by all.
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