Paul's 6 week check up - Timpanogos Cave & Tahlia's ballet recital

It turned into a great trip!  We were going up north for Paul's 6-week check up on his knee replacement.  We were going to the SLC clinic instead of the Park City one this time.  That was on Thursday morning.  We asked Jay and Brynn if we could stay with them and they said yes, and then invited us to stay a little extra to be able to attend Tahlia's ballet recital on Friday night.  We decided to do it.  Being retired is starting to be a pretty nice thing!  Since they were really busy with so many things during the days with kids going here and there we used some of that time to do lots of other things as well as the check up and the ballet.  We left to go up on Wednesday afternoon and when we arrived Jay and Brynn took Paul and I to delicious dinner  (for his Father's Day gift) at a Brazilian Restaurant.  It was so good!  We were all so full!  Then on Thursday morning after Paul's check up (which went great! - he's doing so well and doesn't have to come back for a year!) we went and saw the Gilgal Sculpture Garden which was pretty close by.  It was very interesting!  I have wanted to see it for a long time.  After that we drove over to eat lunch and have a wonderful visit with Lynn and Marilynne Sanderson.  It has been a long time and we stayed all afternoon.  Then we picked up Jim and took him to dinner and then Paul helped him do a few home repairs.  On Friday morning we had a little time to visit before we went to hike up to Timpanogas Cave.  We had some time beforehand to do a little nature hike along the beautiful stream that runs through American Fork Canyon.  The hike to the cave was pretty straight up for 1.5 miles and then we enjoyed the coolness of the cave and the beautiful formations.  Then it was very downhill for the return trip.  Paul did amazing with no knee problems...just a really sore foot though. Then we ate a snack and headed home to get ready for Tahlia's performance.  She was playing 3 roles in the play/ballet of Frozen.  She was the teenage Anna and then did two other nice group parts.  She did well and looked beautiful!  It was very amazing and I'm so glad we got to see her dance finally!   On the way home we stopped for ice cream at Arctic Circle.  Saturday morning the whole family was headed out for a bike ride sponsored by Jay's company, so we said our goodbyes got on our way too.  We wanted to drive up to see the rest of American Fork Canyon and then over the mountain and down to Heber.  We had never driven that beautiful route before.  We stopped along the way to do a short hike around Cascade Falls.  It was such a beautiful place too.  Then we headed home and stopped off in Cedar to have a late lunch visit with Bean.  What a great little trip it turned out to be!  It was so fun to spend time with this fun, busy with life, family! They had girl's camp prep, FSY, Activity Day Camp, ballet rehearsals and recitial and the family bike ride going on plus, people being sick, getting better and dad going to work, etc., etc. all going on while we were there, yet we had time to visit and enjoy each other too!