The Cowboy Express and the Crater

Last weekend we went to Park City and Heber Valley for some family fun and to celebrate our wedding anniversary.  Oma and our good friends Cindy and Brian joined us for the weekend.  We rode on the Heber Valley Historic Railroad, aka the "Heber Creeper" due to it's slow and chugging pace.  There was a cowboy poetry and music gathering in Heber City so the train that day was called the "cowboy express" and had cowboy poets and musicians wandering through the cars to entertain us along with the beautiful scenery.  The musicians kept joking about trying to get their sea legs to play on the old swaying train.

http://www.hebervalleyrr.org/

After the train ride we headed to the Homestead Resort and it's so called "Crater", one of most unique places I've ever gone swimming.  The crater is a hot spring that naturally created a limestone cave with an opening at the top.  The top has been covered with plexiglass so it's warm in the cave with 90-96 degree water and a spot of sunlight coming through the hole in the top.  It's over 60 feet deep, but there's a platform on one side for little kids and people afraid of the deep.  It took some coaxing to get Lindsey on the deep side but once we did, she loved it so much she threw quite a fit when it was time to go.  I'm sure hunger helped contribute to her meltdown because we were all starving.  After a late lunch at the restaurant at the Homestead, we climbed up to the top of the crater to look down into the cave and also got some nice views of the Valley at dusk.  A beautiful ending to a great day.

http://www.homesteadresort.com/Crater