Road Trip Re-Cap, from LV to SLC
The first part of our return road trip was spent in Las Vegas with Ben and Eunice. The room, pool, hotel was so nice we decided to stay an extra night. A huge highlight for the kids was the hotel swimming pool…a pool that looked really small and boring from their website photos. As it turned out, the pool was small, but far from boring. There was this huge shallow “shelf” of the pool, that was PERFECT for the kids. Here we are, in full swimming gear, nice water, hot sun.
Lounging on the “shelf”…don’t know what else to call it. We even had our own private cabana!…you can see it in the background.
This was a HUGE moment for Kay. She swam across the entire width of the pool. We had to do in in little increments, with me standing 1/2 way, then a little farther, so on and so forth. Eunice was both coach and photographer…and Kay finally made it!
Ben, having watched too many John Woo films…
It’s okay…Bekah got him back…
The kids weren’t the only ones to enjoy the “shelf”.
After Vegas, Salt Lake City. The drive through Utah was purported to be a really beautiful and scenic route. No doubt, there were some really amazing spots in Utah…
BUT MOST of our trip looked like this!
…and this! Can you believe it? Right smack in the middle of the desert of southern Utah..traffic! It took us 2 hours to drive 7 miles. Going that slow, with outside temperatures at 102 degrees…the air condition stops working. Cold air only comes in when you are driving! So there we sat, windows open, sun glaring. Desperate for an alternate route, I called Benny to get him to google what in the world was going wrong with the I-15. He pointed out an access road that runs parallel to the interstate. Sure enough, 300 feet to my right was an open, lightly used access road…with no access to us! No exits/onramps…just a huge temptation to go 300 feet offroad to get to the access road. Nope…barbed wire keeping us on the interstate, the whole 7 miles!
So…we past MOST of the anticipated beautiful scenery of Utah, in the dark!
hahaha…nice…good times. it was a great vacation for us! glad you guys made it back home. it’s great to hear that you all were able to watch toy story 3…awesome movie