Strange Place for a Honeymoon

[dalesys]

I think I could be very happy in Jamaica

Like my baby brother...
Splif as long as your arm...
Playing reggae music...

Of course, that's all you can play...
And it has to be spun at 78 to sound like you're alive...

[AdminAssistant]

If/when I take a honeymoon, I fully expect to go out and spend time with my new husband. First off, I can almost guarantee that the relationship had been consummated by that point, so that won't be anything new. Secondly....I can have sex in my house. Why spend a whole bunch of money to go someplace if you're just going to stay in the hotel?

[NightWatch]

Salt Lake City has some very beautiful resorts in the canyons. You can't go a mile without finding one, so we make use of them. But a nice resort with a beautiful mountain view and fresh air would be a pretty nice honeymoon I think. Park City is one of those places up in the mountain/canyon area that has lots of high end wining and dining and hotels too.

If they stayed at the resort in Solitude (ski area in the winter), there are several bars, they host a lot of festivals and just generally have a ton of summertime activities. Especially if you like hiking. A lot of people stay there, so that's my best guess.

[Megg]

Yeah, I lived in Idaho for a while. If you weren't Mormon, the only reason to go to SLC was the airport. It is beautiful country, though.

[strawbabies]

Hehe, yeah, why bother going someplace interesting for your honeymoon? If you do it right, you won't see any of the sights anyway.

Why leave home, then? The newlyweds could fool around in the privacy and comfort of their own home!

[wagegoth]

Why leave home, then? The newlyweds could fool around in the privacy and comfort of their own home!

It's a vacation to reward them for putting together and surviving the wedding.

[smileyeagle1021]

Ask SmileyEagle. He lives and works there.

I'm not entirely sure you could call what I do 'living' ...

And yeah, Smiley Eagle does live there, but from some of his recent threads I'm not sure he'll be able to give you a good reason to honeymoon there..

Yeah, I lived in Idaho for a while. If you weren't Mormon, the only reason to go to SLC was the airport. It is beautiful country, though.

Actually, BSE (and Megg), it has been established that they are not LDS, but, unlike what Megg asserts there is a real big reason for a non-Mormon to come to Salt Lake... to protest the Mormons (seriously, it seems like not a week goes by that there isn't some protest or other going on outside Temple Square... or Main Street Plaza... or the Conference Center)... maybe they are hoping to participate in a protest
ETA- for the record, no I have not actually participated in any of the protests... I know a lot of people who have (one of my friends even got his picture in the SL Trib from being at one of the protests), but never actually gone myself. I want to though... Utahns come up with some really amusing protests, on Sunday a few hundred protesters made out just outside of the Main Street Plaza

Salt Lake City has some very beautiful resorts in the canyons. You can't go a mile without finding one, so we make use of them. But a nice resort with a beautiful mountain view and fresh air would be a pretty nice honeymoon I think. Park City is one of those places up in the mountain/canyon area that has lots of high end wining and dining and hotels too.

If they stayed at the resort in Solitude (ski area in the winter), there are several bars, they host a lot of festivals and just generally have a ton of summertime activities. Especially if you like hiking. A lot of people stay there, so that's my best guess.

giving a serious answer, that's about what I was thinking. If it's the winter they want to come for the skiing, in the summer it's the hiking, and most likely they said Salt Lake City because that's the airport they are flying into but they are really going to one of the mountain resorts.

[Ghel]

Thanks for responding, Smiley, but you're really not much help. I get the impression they're pretty laid-back religiously - they're getting married lakeside, and I think they only go to church on Christmas and Easter. The girl doesn't seem like the type who would get involved in any sort of a protest.

They're getting married in September, and while I'm sure it's a bit warmer than here in Minnesota, it doesn't seem like it would be hiking/camping weather. And skiing wouldn't have started yet.

I'm as confused as ever. The coworker either doesn't know why her daughter picked SLC or doesn't want to talk about it.

[taxguykarl]

Why leave home, then? The newlyweds could fool around in the privacy and comfort of their own home!

To put some distance between them and the clueless relatives who would otherwise drop in at any time of day.