Bucketlist item, check! I've been wanting to go to the Spiral Jetty for YEARS. About 20 years to be exact. I first heard about it when it was covered by the lake, then I heard that you needed 4 wheel drive to get there.... Then my sister Sharon found out about it and was more pro-active than me. We finally got up there. While we were there, I told the kids about floating in the Great Salt Lake. They all wanted to try it and loved the floating part but didn't love the salt part. Seth got salt in his eyes because he dunked his head. We had to wash his eyes out then he was fine. Sam and Evelyn got salt in their private areas and said that it burned.... so we rinsed off and made them pee. They felt much better after that. Ada told me that once she started floating, she had no control over her feet.... they just popped up and stayed up. When the kids all got out, they sparkled all over like the vampires from the Twilight movies. It was pretty funny. Just walking down to the lake is an adventure. It's about a half mile from the Jetty to the lake and it goes from fine sand to crunchy salt crystals pretty quick. The crystals even form in waves like sand does on the beach, and then they get hard. One of the funny things to see was that bugs get crystalized too. We saw lots of grasshoppers and dragonflies crystalized into the ground. The water was very warm too. I wonder if that's partially because of salt content. Part of the lake was pink too.
On the way back from the Jetty, we stopped off at the Golden Spike for our 3rd time. It was fun to see Seth react to the trains again. He really liked them and was so happy that they have stars on the wheels. Evelyn wanted very badly to see the Golden Spike, but it's in Sanford, California. We found a replica to look at though.
We were all crackly and crusty, so Sharon drove us to the Ogden River and we went swimming to clean off all the salt.
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