June 3rd - Logan, UT

Another shot of Bear Lake from yesterday.

We went for a short walk at the campground that morning – enough for Will to spot a tiny, long snake and for us to go up a bit of a hill. Then we headed to Logan. We didn’t realise it was so close and twenty minutes later we were there! We stopped at a McDonalds for the usual email check and Will found a place where we could shower! An annoying thing about state parks is that when they are on a lake (which is most of them), they charge a day use fee. The park we went to was just out of Logan at Hyrum - $6 for us to spend the afternoon in the sunshine and also to use their showers!! Free (apart from the entrance fee) – hot water for as long as we needed! (so not an exciting thing for you non-travellers!). 

Hanging out at the Lake in Logan. Very pretty town!

We visited Walmart, but forgot we were in Utah – they don’t sell beer over 3.2% alcohol content in supermarkets, being a Mormon state. Instead we had to go to a state run liquor store – where you can’t buy anything already cold, because you might drink it straight away! Shock horror! 

Then we went and visited Will’s friend, Hillary. She studied at Utas in Hobart for a semester and used to hang out with him and his Jane Franklin friends. She is currently doing her PhD at Utah State University. Her and her husband, Josh, have a really cute cottage in north Logan! We hung out there for the afternoon/evening. Josh even had Coopers Sparkling Ale in their fridge – he used to live in Adelaide and loves it! Pretty random to find a nice Australian beer in the USA, rather than just Fosters!! They cooked us a delicious dinner of grilled salmon (yum!!), corn, a huge mixed salad and fresh gourmet bread (no Walmart stuff like we’ve become used to!). They too, have a funny cat, who likes to hang out in the rafters and whack small toy mice at you. Then you have to throw it back up to her so she can bat it down again.

We watched some crazy random TV show that I can’t remember the name of – ‘Tim and Eric’s adventure’? Spaghett! It was so dumb it was actually kinda funny. Could’ve been the wine too! Still at a high altitude!