First of Many Road Trips For This Year

.... that's what I am of afraid of. It all started with one looonnnngggggggg road trip ending with one paaaaaainful marathon and another road trip home.

We left Wednesday night and stayed headed to SLC. We stayed with Erika and got the next morning and headed down to Mesquite. Thank goodness for the DVD player and the TV screens in the back. I wouldn't have made it home with my sanity without them. While Katanya enjoyed the playing with pretzels. Although she wouldn't eat them....what a surprise. She did great on the road. It took quite awhile considering we were pulling our 24' enclosed trailer and for some reason the aerodynamics (is that correct?) just makes it awful to drive when you pass semitrailers. We made it to Beaver and we stopped and let the kids enjoy an hour playing on cousin Sam's "playground". McKay and Kirsten on the teeter-totter.........Jake and Cruz on the plane.We made it down to Mesquite that afternoon and loaded up over 4300 five gallon pots. We wanted another 2000 but because Jake and I hadn't eaten since breakfast or had a drink we were exhausted with the 96 degree weather. So we ate and headed on our way back when it's even worse because max speed is between 55 and 60 mph. We ended up in Cedar City where we enjoyed a fun stay with Maddy (her roommates were gone because of Spring Break). Because Cruz was wanting to play, we (not Jake but Maddy and I) stayed up til 2 pm just having fun "girl" talk.

That morning Jake headed up early to Beaver to finish our missing cabinet pieces and Maddy, the kids, and I followed up later. We met up with Karl and Betsy and headed on our way to the infamous Green River and Moab where Hannah K was waiting for us. Not being smart like Karl or Betsy, and following in Big Harry's footsteps, we had too procrastinated and fell at the Rhodeaway Inn. There is a reason they were the only hotels that had vacancies and were dirt cheap............(tune in tomorrow for the saga of the marathon.)