07/05/17 Day Six - Park City - Mojo's and Factory outlet and Chabasco's

Lazy day with just us and the girls.

Andy had a rough night due to back pain and elevation and such. I had a terrible night due to asthma and not having an inhaler readily available. So we didn't get moving early!!!

We had a secret shop at Mojo's restaurant up by the alpine slide so we went and did that afternoon. We got a couple of entrees and shared them four ways. Also some nachos and cookies. We found a souvenir shop and everyone got cute park city shirts. Then it started raining and thundering -- not forecast, no expected -- didn't last long!

It was kind of nice though because it cooled everything down. So we went to the outlet malls and walked around for a long time. Found Andy some sneakers for pickle ball -- he wanted daily shoes too but we didn't have any luck with that. We walked the whole lower half of the outlets and then headed over to walmart.

While on this trip Andy decided for sure to go to Mexico for surgery. The surgery is two weeks away -- which means he has to start a special diet immediately. So we went over to walmart to pickup some protein powder and gatorade and things. Prior to the surgery he has to try to lose a bunch of weight to help make it easier to perform the surgery. It will be a rough couple of weeks - shakes, salads, no sodas. So we are gearing up to help out and get through it!

For Andy's "last supper" before the surgery we went to Chubasco's - a park city local Mexican joint. That place was super crowded and yummy. We got two entrees and shared them again along with nachos. We had a fun time with the girls and enjoyed Andy's last real meal.

After dinner we went straight instead of turning and decided to take a nice drive. We found some fun signs -- lil Kate driver and Andy for Mayor!

The weather gets cool here in the evening and the pool has pretty chilly water so we didn't swim -- the girls read books and hung out (it was already after 9 p.m.!!!!)

Andy and I decided to go to the hot tub late though! It was so nice. Everyone was gone and we had it to ourselves again and had a little hot tub date late in the evening! The pool says it closes at 10 but we stayed until almost 11 p.m. and there was noone to tell us to go home so we didn't! I thought we'd be freezing but sitting in the hot tub for awhile heats you up so it wasn't cold at all!

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