Salt Flats

We went to Salt Lake City over Thanksgiving weekend to visit some friends. We were just there to hang out, play Guitar Hero III, nothing much. We had to make a trip to Ikea, Lisa had to go see it. I wasn't really into it, but they do have a lot of cool stuff. We were trying to find something else to do for the next day. They asked me, I said the Salt Flats would be cool to see. I remember seeing it when I was a kid, and remembered that it was a fun back then. Everyone was up for it. I asked how far it was. They said maybe a 1/2 an hour to an hour. I thought that was good. We were going with a 1 year old, 2.5 year old, and a 5.5 year old. I knew that we couldn't do a long trip out of it all. We all piled in the car and headed out. We kind of took our time, not thinking this would take our entire afternoon. Over 2 hours later, and 4 miles from the border of Nevada we made it. We almost turned around, but after 100 miles you just can't do it. I think everyone had a good time. It is one of those places that when you hear what it is you think, big deal a bunch of salt. To a certain extent when you start to really see it from the road, you think big deal. When you actually get out there and experience it first hand, it is awesome. Just as cool as I remembered it.