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Jeudi 5 août 2010 à 7:42

 So finally, even though I’m lazy, I’m going to write a bit about Salt Lake City. I went there primarily to visit a good friend of mine, Clayton. On Friday night, I was supposed to take off at 7:10 pm, but due to bad weather conditions, I had to wait 4 hours and I finally took off around 11. I arrived in Salt Lake around 1 am (if I remember well), and we went camping downtown, because of the parade of the 24th of July, which is some sort of second national day for Utah.

On Saturday morning, we watched the parade and then went to the park.

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In the afternoon we “shot the tube”. Under a highway, there was a huge pipe which is used to transfer the water (from the mountains, hence very cold). People from Salt Lake are actually using it for fun. You get something like a surfboard, you go up by walking in the freezing water and in the dark, and finally you go down the pipe by sliding with your board. I can’t say I was the most motivated for that, because when I tried to get into the water it was so cold that it was hurting real bad. And I realized that I was almost the only one to feel that way. Whatever. I still tried, and when I was almost down the pipe, I used my hands to stop because I didn’t want to get into the freezing water. Lame huh. I don’t care. That was still fun and I had a good sunbath.

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Then, at night, we went up a hill to watch the fireworks. Actually, the fireworks were kinda small from up there, but I really enjoyed the view of Salt Lake!

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Sunday was church day, because Clayton and his family are Mormons. We went to a concert in the morning, and then we went to church. Finally, at night we went to a party related to the church. It was nice, even though it was a “dry” party.

On Monday, we went to the lake where I managed to stand on a wake board for the first time! (I had tried already and I had miserably failed twice) There even is a video!

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That was fun. Then we went working out, and finally we tried to go to a party but it got canceled because of the rain L.

On Tuesday, we went to a city in the mountains called Park City. There was a big slide going down the mountain, and we did it! It was lots of fun. 

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Thank you Clayton for all of that!

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