This weekend we headed up to Midway for some Labor Day fun. Avery and I checked out Swiss Days on Saturday with Jolynn and Kara and then all four of us headed up after church on Sunday for a sleepover and boating the next day. The weather at the lake was pretty chilly (leading to some bad sunburns, sunscreen wasn't the first thing on my mind when I was wearing a sweatshirt!). We had a good time though and Macey had a great ride on the tube to last her until next summer. Brook and I even got brave and jumped in the water and it wasn't quite as bad as I expected :-)
While we were setting up camp we visited with a reporter doing an article for the Salt Lake Tribune and the family ended up in the paper! Here is part of the article:
Labor Day means fun and food
By Christopher Smart
The Salt Lake Tribune
If you look up Labor Day in Webster’s Dictionary, you will learn that it’s a legal holiday in the U.S. and Canada honoring working people, first celebrated in 1882 in New York City.
But ask people on the street — or on the beach — what Labor Day is and you get something else: It’s summer’s last gasp, some say. Others celebrate it as a time to get together with friends and family for grilled meat and libation. And for many, it’s just a day like any other.
For summer last-gaspers who took to Jordanelle Reservoir, Monday was a chilly reminder that, indeed, summer is unofficially over. When the sun rose over the Uinta Mountains on the reservoir in Wasatch County, the mercury was hovering around 40 degrees.
“It’s cold,” exclaimed Jolynn Miles on Monday morning. “We got blankets to ride in the boat.”
Jolynn and husband, Dave, brought their extended family of 17 to their annual Jordanelle Park Labor Day celebration.
Daughter-in-law Melissa Miles feared the cold lake water. “We’ll have to draw straws to see who gets in the tube with the kids.”
But it was son-in-law Matt Selander who got wet first, setting the boat’s anchor.
“It’s as cold as the BYU offense,” he said as he waded ashore.
Nonetheless, it was smiles all around and although a little nippy, the azure sky was cloudless.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s cold,” Jolynn added. “We’re here as a family and that’s all that matters. We’ll always remember the day we went to Jordanelle and froze.”
While we were setting up camp we visited with a reporter doing an article for the Salt Lake Tribune and the family ended up in the paper! Here is part of the article:
Labor Day means fun and food
By Christopher Smart
The Salt Lake Tribune
If you look up Labor Day in Webster’s Dictionary, you will learn that it’s a legal holiday in the U.S. and Canada honoring working people, first celebrated in 1882 in New York City.
But ask people on the street — or on the beach — what Labor Day is and you get something else: It’s summer’s last gasp, some say. Others celebrate it as a time to get together with friends and family for grilled meat and libation. And for many, it’s just a day like any other.
For summer last-gaspers who took to Jordanelle Reservoir, Monday was a chilly reminder that, indeed, summer is unofficially over. When the sun rose over the Uinta Mountains on the reservoir in Wasatch County, the mercury was hovering around 40 degrees.
“It’s cold,” exclaimed Jolynn Miles on Monday morning. “We got blankets to ride in the boat.”
Jolynn and husband, Dave, brought their extended family of 17 to their annual Jordanelle Park Labor Day celebration.
Daughter-in-law Melissa Miles feared the cold lake water. “We’ll have to draw straws to see who gets in the tube with the kids.”
But it was son-in-law Matt Selander who got wet first, setting the boat’s anchor.
“It’s as cold as the BYU offense,” he said as he waded ashore.
Nonetheless, it was smiles all around and although a little nippy, the azure sky was cloudless.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s cold,” Jolynn added. “We’re here as a family and that’s all that matters. We’ll always remember the day we went to Jordanelle and froze.”
1 comments:
Very cool (except Matt's comment about BYU)! :)
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