Utaventure

In February 2017 we had another visitor from Belgium. This time a colleague/friend of Geert with whom he had been deployed for 4 months in Afghanistan back in 2014. Geert had to work during the 2 weeks she stayed with us, and the kids had school, so I showed her around.  She's a good skier and sporty girl 💪, so it was no problem to find fun activities to do with her, here in outdoor Utah! So, we went skiing of course. Sometimes just the two of us ...    Other times we joined up with some of the ladies of the international community ... And during the weekend we skied together with Geert and the kids ... Except skiing, we also did some hiking. We hit the Donut Falls Trail, which is a short and easy hike close to Salt Lake City with a beautiful waterfall in a cave at the end. The weather was gorgeous, everything was covered with a thick layer of snow and we were all by ourselves, making it a truly beautiful hike....

My parents returned home on the 7th of January and with that we returned to the normal pace of our life here. As I already mentioned in my post of December 2016 ( December 2016 ), that winter (and with that I meant December and January) was very cold and the amount of snow we had was just incredible! So after all the skiing and sliding and hiking in the cold, the soccer tournament of Hendrik in Las Vegas, which took place in the middle of January, certainly was a nice intermezzo! Soccer in Las Vegas From mid October until the end of March there are no outdoor competition soccer games here in Utah as it is very well possible that within that period there is just no field playable due to snow. During these months they switch to ' Indoor soccer ' or ' Futsal '. What follows are two small intermezzos (paragraphs) on Indoor Soccer and Futsal for layman (like me)... you might want to skip these two if you don't want to hear what the differences are :-)  Indoor...