Our Staycation

Last week Joi mentioned that she was going to be coming up to Salt Lake to complete some of Grandma's paper work. She suggested that Mark and I get away for a few days and volunteered to watch the kids...
After a few days of planning and rearranging we decided to take her up on her offer...It's been a couple of years since we've had "Couple Time." And I definitely needed some down time...
We headed up to Snowbird for a great "Staycation".
On the first day we took the tram up to the top of the mountain and debated whether or not we should hike back down or just take the tram back. There were a few inches of snow and the temperature was around 47. The tour guide told us it would probably take about 2 hours to get down the mountain. Mark and I looked at each other and thought it would probably only take 1 1/2 hours. He told us we would have to hike through some snow, etc. But we didn't seem to care. After all, we had all day with no kids...
On the first part of our hike we came to this sign, "Easier Route". And I thought, 'This is great. It will definitely only take us 1 1/2 hours. Let's choose easy.' And so we did. Mark led the way and we continued our hike down the mountain. After about 2 hours I was wondering why they had called this the easy way.
We trenched through snow, scaled down steep terrain, and argued about the best possible path to take. We ended up creating our own because all the trails we looked at were way too long.
Five hours later we were sitting on our balcony looking up at the mountain we had just come down and Mark turned to me and said, "I figured out what we did wrong. Instead of coming straight down we zig zagged that whole thing 5 times..." I just shook my head and laughed...
I guess the journey really is the destination...