Chocolate Bars - Milka Alpenmilch

Milka Alpenmilch (Alpine Milk), this is one of the non-Ritter Sport bars that Florian brought. I believe it is made by Nestle, under the Milka brand name. Anyway, it is a very smooth, very soft milk chocolate. I can barely hold this bar as it starts melting immediately in my hand. Having chocolate melt in my hands is not new, but this bar seems to be very sensitive. Of course the bar was kept on the counter and here in Colorado we try to keep the house at 77-78 degrees during the summer, so maybe that is just a little to warm for this bar.

Anyway, this is a good bar, minus the melting issue. I would pick up one of these any day.

New Friends and Wii

On Sunday, my Aunt Diane and Uncle Harry came to visit with their three grand kids Dani, Mandi, and Tyler.  Dani is getting married soon, so my mom and Dani and Aunt Diane worked on the wedding dress.  Tyler, Uncle Harry and my dad went over to my brother's house.  So Mandi and Pauline had a chance to get to know each other, visit and play Wii....

Temple Square

Saturday night on the way home we stayed in Salt Lake City. We got in mid-afternoon so decided to go down to Temple Square and take a tour....

We also go to go into the convention center and tour it too. 

No this lady is not trying to steal the pictures....she decided it was crooked, so she was trying to straighten it.  This was our tour guide for the convention center. 

These pictures are from the top of the convention center...

You can see part of the water fall here...

I think it is amazing there are steps and gardens on top of the building, if it wasn't for the great views of the tops of buildings you may forget you were so high. 

It really is an amazing facility they have there, and so well taken care of.  It is wonderful they have it open to share with anyone. 

Sacremento

We left Oregon on Friday mid morning and headed down towards Sacramento.  Partly because we wanted to make sure Pauline got to go to California (if only for a short time)

We stopped downtown at the state capital and went in to tour around...

As normal the politicians were not there, but at least we got to see the rooms where they work.

Around the Ranch

We were there for a few days, so of course you take some random pictures around the ranch...

Matt and Abby enjoying some ice cream...

 Kassidy and her Ice Cream

Jim doing the irrigation...

Just hanging out after dinner...

Pauline in her riding "gear"

Jim relaxing.

And of course...Pauline driving the golf cart...

Horse back riding

Pauline wanted to ride a horse, so Kim got Flashy ready for riding...

Kassidy was at school, but Abby helped...

Then it was time to ride....first was Kim

Then Abby...she even rode all by herself....

Then it was Pauline's turn....though here we weren't sure if she was thinking about changing her mind :-)

Abby waiting while Pauline rode...