My Ten Favorite Places

Here is a list of my ten favorite places in the Heber Valley...including Midway...just the whole valley. You know what I mean.

1. I love this place at night when the stars are out. I go to this place to get above it all. It provides an excellent view of the whole city, and its lights. I go to this place to clear my mind. This place breeds intense thinking and deep conversations. Many nights have I gone there, with or without people it is always there for me. The night before graduation was especially most memorable.


2. This place is nearly identical to the first place except it is a little higher up and provides a slightly different view of the whole valley. It is number 2 because it takes a little more effort to get there, and usually I'm too lazy. It is no less remarkable or thought provoking. There has only been one other person up there with me. Maybe thats how it will stay.


3. I go to this place to feed little feathered two-legged semi-aquatic/mostly land animals. I think they now solely depend on my food for their survival. Maybe they even recognize me by sight, or maybe I stink and they can smell me. I hope this doesn't make me sound like a player but I have taken almost every first date that I have had here first. I need to know if they enjoy it like I do. I don't care how hot they are, if they can't enjoy this then I have no place for them. haha. I have layed on the grass, I have sat on the playground, I have randomly walked around on the golf course thats next to it. I have hiked on the hills behind it. I have brought my dog here and watched him jump into the pond after these animals that I have referred to and he almost drowned, but I just laughed at him. This place has a calm, almost serene effect to it. Maybe its the water, maybe its the animals, maybe its all the green leaves and grass. I don't know. I love it.

4. I sit at this place, often when the sun is setting. Just me and my dog. Both silent companions looking out into the world at we love. I can see the highway from here and I often wonder about the people that are in these cars that I see. I wonder where they are going or what they are doing. I can see the airport and its planes land and take off and I wonder what it would be like to fly like that. I can see Mt. Timpanogas rising above in its white beauty with dark red and orange clouds around it and wonder what it would be like to be God and be able to create mountains like that.


5. When the weather is good, there may be no other pefect place to be than here. Just like place number 3, I almost always take my first dates here as well. Its a place mostly for little kids. I'm pretty much too big for all of the slides but maybe I like it because it makes me feel like a kid again. It has good grass and I definitely could lay on it all day. The swings are definitely a favorite, especially the second one from the left. It is my swing and always will be.


6. For a couple summers it was my home away from home. I loved it because it was a beautiful place to be. I loved the fresh cut green grass, I loved the smells, I loved the fog and mist that hung over it in the morning and the birds siging in the trees. I loved watching deer run across the grass and after everyone would leave, I loved to take a golf cart and just randomly drive it around the course. It was a good place.


7. I love driving this road, okay well its more like several roads but I love driving it. If I am having a stressful time the first thing I do is just go drive somewhere but I always end up driving this route. It takes me through Heber, to the highway, through Midway, past Memorial Hill, and back down to Heber. But there is one section or road that is much better than the others. I enjoy it a lot. But watch out for deer at night.


8. I've spent so much time working here I often thought I could never get away from the place. I met so many people there, so many people that I still know that have influenced me for the better. I dedicated a lot of hard work to this place, I started working there before most of my friends even thought of having a job. There was a lot of frustration spent and I almost always left exhuasted. But somehow it felt like home to me, maybe because it was more of a home to me. I know this place inside and out. It's changed now, probably for the better but it will always be the same for me.


9. I go to this place everyonce in a while and sit in a chair next to a big window that looks out onto Main Street. It is my chair and my window, and they don't even need to ask where I would like to sit anymore. During the winter I just order hot chocolate (it is very good hot chocolate) and sit and look out the window. For some reason I just like to sit and look. Call me weird but I feel like you can learn more by observing and watching sometimes.


10. My grandma sold the land a long time ago. But once upon a time I used to live there, next to my cousin. We had lots of farmland around us and we used to go "exploring" around the old barns and fields. We would always find something fascinating like a calander from 1970 or some old mysterious bones, most likely from a cat. Once there was a whole family of racoons that lived in the attic of one of the barns and we trapped them. We used to raise pigs together for 4-H there and once we caught a snake and it had babies the next morning. Those were part of the childhood memories everyone loves. They are the memories that we will sit around and talk about "back in the day." Those were carefree times, they were innocent times. Those were good times.