Angela Does Everything

This is my last post in my series on The Gateway . There are so many things to do and see at The Gateway and writing an individual post about all of them would get tedious and boring. But I don't want to stop sharing about this place. They have updated a lot of things there in recent years and are still adding more new things . Below are just a few more suggestions of things to do at The Gateway. Things I've done and loved: Rocket Fizz - Specialty candy and soda shop . There are many locations throughout the country, but only two in Utah (the other is in Vineyard). Salt and Honey - A maker's market . This place has locally made, independently produced items that are fun and unique. Many artists and makers use this store as a platform to sell their handmade creations. Dave and Buster's - Another place that is all over the country - but this is the only one in Utah. Think Chuck-e-Cheese's, but for grown ups . Still family friendly, but does serve alcohol ...

Next up on our trip around The Gateway : Love Letters Museum I cannot say enough good things about this place. This museum is all about the love of letters (not postal writings to ones you love - but isn't that a fun play on words?) It was so fun and nerdy. I come from a big word-nerd family . So when there is a museum all about words and letters, I had to check it out.  There were so many fun parts to the museum. Sculptures made out of books, a giant book to slide down, letter blocks and magnets , fun art pieces . And it wasn't just a boring museum, either. There were amazing interactive parts too. We got to create a button to take home. We got to use rubber stamps to create a little card to take home (mine has flowers and the word "love" on it and it currently being used as decoration to cover up the phone jack in our house - cuz who uses those anymore??). They even had postcards you could write and then mail. I sent my postcard to my sister. I made m...

The next installment for my series on things to do at The Gateway is finally here. Yay! Dreamscapes is an art installation that I found absolutely enchanting . Everything there is meant to look like it could be a dream. And they nailed it! According to their website , over 50 artists came together to make this dream a dreamesque reality. As you walk through the museum, you enter new world after new world designed to look like a different dream world. You have forests and oceans and ball pits ; climbing and clouds and stickers . My favorite room is one where everything is white . It's like a normal living room with chairs and tables and books. But it's all white. At first. Each guest gets a set of small stickers - one of each color of the rainbow. And you get to put the stickers anywhere you want in the room. It was really neat to see how people - strangers - at different times - but together - worked with each other to create designs and patterns. This...

The Gateway is a large open-air mall with shops, businesses, activities, restaurants and more in downtown Salt Lake. It has so much to do that the whole family took an entire day to hang out there and experience the things The Gateway has to offer. This particular Goat Yoga experience happened on a different day, but I figure I'll use it to start off my Gateway series of posts. Goat yoga. Have you heard of it? It's a new fad I've been hearing about. You do yoga while goats prance around you and jump on you. Let's start with the cons: *Ouch ouch ouch! A goat jumping on me?? Ouch! At one point there were 4 goats on my back at one time. There hooves hurt. I left with scratches and bruises. *I couldn't hear the instructor giving the yoga instructions. (This con would of course be based on what company you have your goat yoga experience with) *The yoga mats are pretty dirty. You can bring your own - but then it might get goat dirty too. *Yo...

This past weekend, I had the chance to cross something off my bucket list: Bet on a horse race . Being in Utah, that is hard to do. But just 2 hours north, in Evanston, WY is Wyoming Downs Race Track . They have races on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer. So I left the kids with grandma and Ryan and I headed north for the afternoon. It was a lot of fun. We were able to use their app to place our bets (which is so much better than waiting in line to bet on each race). It was neat that the minimum bet was $2 , so that made it low risk and just fun. We weren't great at picking winners. But we did bet $2 on After Chad and he won us $15.20 (though we quickly lost that betting on other horses like Russdiculous and Unstoppable Honor). I think what is the more fun part of horse racing is the names people give their race horses. They are the funniest names! My favorite horse names: *Bear Bottomside *Game of Trones *Baby Groot *Go Trump Go *Wassup Bro...

As soon as Sheldon and Amy on The Big Bang Theory tried out sensory deprivation chambers on the episode "The Inspiration Deprivation" back in April, Ryan and I were googling where we could go to try them out. Also known as a float spa, we found a place about 20 minutes south of us - True REST Float Spa . We were able to find a groupon to use saving us about 50% of the cost. It was quite the interesting experience to say the least. First they showed us an intro to floating video all about the basics of what to do (and not do). The video was super cute and hilarious (which was quite nice considering intro videos like this are usually just boring.) The thesis statement of the video was "don't be an idiot," but also gave good tips on what you can expect. Here is a picture of what the float spa room looked like: We were then given a tour of the facility and shown how to use the float spas. We each got our own room with shower and spa bed (is that the ...