I’ll try to do this chronologically. Our trip got off to a rough start when thunderstorms delayed our flight to SLC by about 8 hours. So, we finally left NYC around 2 AM Eastern and landed in SLC around 4:30 Mountain. Luckily my younger brother had no problem staying up all night and picking us up. We figured that even though we hadn’t had much sleep, we would just stay awake and fire off a power nap later, if needed.

After having a super early breakfast with some of the fam, we went flying in my dad’s plane (the shot above is my dad taking care of some pre-flight stuff). Here is Wally below, wearing the game face.

Northern Wasatch range, and the Great Salt Lake:

Cache Valley:

The Spiral Jetty, at the Great Salt Lake:

Mount Timpanogos:

Three happy aviators:

It’s Sundance time in Park City. Being a bit of a street art aficionado, I was pretty excited to hear that Banksy was throwing up some pieces in SLC and PC, since the film “Exit through the Gift Shop,” is debuting at the film festival. I’m hoping that the art will still be there in late Feb., so that I can get some of my own shots of the work. The photo above was shot by my homey Dan Richards. He told me that this particular stencil is off of West Temple and 3rd S., in SLC.

In other news, Piper is doing about the same. She seems like she is doing better, but there is a hard balance between keeping her calm, and over-sedating her. Reagan and I plan to take a trip to Jersey tomorrow to pick up her wardrobe. Hopefully having some of her more stylish threads readily available, will motivate her to recover a little more quickly. Or, at least recover enough to not require the center line anymore, so that she can wear her normal clothes (not that her little clown print gowns aren’t cute).

For some reason, this has seemed like one of the longest weeks, ever. I’m really excited for this weekend, even though it will be a busy one. I’m probably even going to have to spend some time in the office. But for some reason, just by virtue of being the “weekend,” I can always find a degree of solace that I don’t have during the regular work days.