Ringing in the New Year in Ogden and the awesome Salomon Center

I know I haven't posted any pictures of the friends party or christmas yet, but I will soon. There was a debacule over our new digital camera and I haven't developed my film pics yet. Anyway..
New Years Eve we drove down to Ogden to exchange the digital camera I got for Christmas at Circuit City -since we don't have one in Logan. We went on a slightly frustrating search for an affordable camera with a fast shutter speed (which is very important when I have two little girls who are very fast and I want to get pictures of them actually looking at the camera). We left circuit city empty handed. Next we drove to McDonalds to let Ashton play at the playplace. She thought it was sooo fun and played for an hour!




This is not the real picture or Ashton in them. All of the pics in this post will be random images from the internet until I get a new camera.
Next, Dan decided we should take the 89 home instead of the freeway. On our way we saw the downtown area still lit with Christmas lights. We slowed way down so ash could look at them and say "green light, red light, sana (santa), hear bell!!" When we got to the end of the block we saw a huge rock wall, flashing lights, and a megaplex theater. Our curiosity was peaked on what this new area was. We parked the car and found out it was the Salomon Center. Compliments of Larry Miller (refer to Cassi's blog about everything Larry Miller).



This place has a huge rock climbing wall. A Flowrider, which is an indoor pool that simulates surfing and boogie boarding. We took the kids inside and watched people attempt to surf. The water was sooo powerful that people could only stay up for a little while before they ate it and went flying to the back of the pool. It looked really fun and it made me laugh really hard! Here is a link to a video of someone surfing (I hope it works I've never tried linking before, if not I bet you can just copy and paste):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FP3ey91F8s

Loni- Dan said he wishes we would have known about this when you were here because you would like it. I guess its time to plan another trip!
When we had enough California surfing flashbacks we walked over to Fat Cats bowling and arcade. Ash and I ran around pretending to race cars, motorcycles, play dance dance revolution, while Dan watched some football game. It was also funny to keep Ashton away from stealing people's skeeballs in the middle of their games! When the football game was over, we went to Ifly, a skydiving simulation. Here is another video of it. Last night, three employee's were in there doing tricks for us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfyPIgy5WDY

I left very impressed with the new development in Ogden. It is supposed to bring in 2.8 million dollars in revenue by 2010 for Ogden city- because they own part of the land.
Although everything was kind of pricey, it seems like those "lets do it at least once, because I don't know when I'll have another chance" type of activities. If I could convince Dan to spend the money on that I would totally do all of these things.
We finished out the old year and were ringing in the new year with a very anticlimatic tv marathon of Dick Clark's and Carson Daly's New Years Eve specials, back in Logan. After we saw everyone partying in NYC, Dan and I vowed to spend New Years Eve in New York next year


instead of going to Seattle's space needle like the past three years. Who wants to come?








Happy New Years Everyone!!! Good luck with those resolutions!