Brad, Body Worlds, Buffet, BYU, Boulders and Ballet

Wednesday we picked up Brad from the airport and then headed out and spent way too much money at Deseret Book and the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake City. We killed time until it was time to go see Body Worlds. That's an exhibition of real human bodies that have been skinned and preserved by plastation. Not 100% sure what that is, but from what I understand, the gist is they take cadavers and pump it with plastic to make them last and then you can do whatever you want with them and when it sets, it stays like that. These are a couple pictures from the exhibition we saw.

It was pretty cool. They had different areas where it would show a bunch of livers and the effects different things had on it, or a bunch of hearts that had like one from someone who had a heart attack and a healthy one, etc. Every part of the body was represented and had a bunch of each one to show the effects that smoking, drinking, cancer, obesity, whatever had on them. It's was pretty interesting. There was one part though that I absolutely didn't like. There was a section kind of curtained off that had a bunch of babies. Like an embryo at 2 weeks pregnant, 7 weeks, 12 weeks, etc. all the way up to 38 weeks. It was interesting to see the stages of development, but knowing that all the displays were from real people, it was heartbreaking to see so many unborn babies, or babies that were born prematurely and died shortly thereafter. After that we went back to Dennie's house and hung out there for the night. The boys were going to go to the Miami Heat @ Utah Jazz game, but Brad had been up for like 50 hours straight, so they opted to stay home and watch it on TV so Brad could sleep.

Thursday we went down to Provo to spend time with my parents while the tires on the van were changed. We ate at an old time favorite buffet restaurant, Chuck-a-Rama (Thomas hates that name). And afterwards we went to the Provo Towne Centre Mall and drove around BYU for a while and then went down to my parents house in Santaquin.

Friday we went up to the mountain behind my mom's house. I almost got us stuck in the snow, Thomas fell down on the ice, and all around we froze a little bit.

Aiden's little nose especially froze a little bit. I set the color accent on the camera to red to see if you could pick up his little red nose, and you absolutely can.

Thomas, Aiden and I on the bridge over the little creek near Trumbolt Part on the way up the mountain.

And like little kids, we threw big rocks towards the creek trying to break the ice on top.

The view from the top of the mountain. Beautiful! Even when the valley is all smoggy.

After that we went to my mom's house so we could get cleaned up and ready to go up to Tooele to see Tracy's girls at their dance recital.

They performed the Nutcracker and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures because I was tending to a little boy.

After that, it was back to Santaquin to get sleep and ready for Saturday.