Friday, October 30, 2009

Gardner Village

A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call letting me know my niece, LaNita was in town with her hubby and little boy, clear from Oklahoma! We wanted to get together, and since Emily was off from school for fall break and I wanted to do something fun with her, we decided to meet at Gardner Village - it was great to see LaNita, and her little Dallas is just the cutest, most handsome little guy!


If you live in the Salt Lake area, you MUST go to Gardner Village. Such a cool place. My description wouldn't do it justice. It has lots of shops with way cute stuff, mostly home decor, but so much other stuff too. Way cute stuff. They go all out for Halloween, so the atmosphere is just so fun. We started with pony rides and a petting zoo:


Dallas McDonald


Emily and her friend, Maddie

With Emily's love for horses, this pony got lots of attention!
Around the village there were lots of lifesize witches, all throughout. They had a scavenger hunt which was fun for the girls (and us) to do, going around finding the different witches listed on the hunt. There were clues to help them know the different witches to look for. Great fun for all of us. We didn't spend too much time in the shops since there's was LOTS for little kids NOT to touch. But it was fun to look here and there.

The witch who was "ready for a hug"
My own little witch

Dallas & LaNita
We found all 14 of the witches and went to the bakery to redeem our chocolate chip cookies for turning in our completed scavenger hunt sheets. What a fun way to spend the afternoon. The weather couldn't have been better, and it was wonderful to see LaNita, Josh, and Dallas again!

3 comments:

Nicia said...

bbcbbbbbbcbbbccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccbb That was Alyssa commenting! Anyway, how fun! But not a single picture of you! What's with that? It was cute. When Alyssa saw Emily's picture she got all excited and said "Emmy! Pretty." So cute!

Melinda said...

How fun!! Was my mom there with you all too? I'm glad La got out and got to visit Mom and you and everything. Looks like Gardner Village is a way cool place!

Rachel Holloway said...

I LOVE Gardner Village. It is SUCH an awesome place! I think I could spend all day there... sigh. :)

So fun that you had visitors and a great time on top of that!