On the Road

During the second week of August, we went on a trip to UT.  Brad's family was having their annual Bear Lake extravaganza and we wanted to go down to SLC afterwards to see my mom.  We explored many options and agonized over how to "stay" at Bear Lake.  We finally opted to rent a tent trailer from Brad's work.  I don't think we ever got any pictures of it after it was set up, but we did get one of the rig we drove.  Check this out...

We felt a bit like we were driving a train!

On the way there, we saw this:

It is a U Dub football helmet on top of a VW Bug.  They drive it around the field at football games. It has a name, but I don't remember what it is.  Brad said, "There's the thing-a-ma-jiggy!" expecting me to know what to look for, but I was clueless.  I was glad we passed by it a little while later so that at least now I know what he was talking about. 

The first day we only drove to tri-cities.  Good thing too, because it took us until almost 1 pm to leave home.  We had to finish packing the trailer that morning and it took longer than we thought it would.  Partly because it wasn't just packing, it was packing, setting it down, hooking it up, etc., etc.!  We camped at a KOA.  We were disappointed that their swimming pool closed at 8 pm. that night.  We told the kids they could swim in the morning instead.

And so they did!

Well, not all of the kiddos did.  But she and I had fun watching!

Then, as it approached noon, we realized that we had over 7 hours of driving ahead of us!  Ack!  We stressfully got on the road again, headed towards Twin Falls, ID.  We made it there after 9 pm.  (We also forgot about the time change, which was, of course, working against us.)  Brad and I set up the trailer while the kids watched the rest of a movie in the truck.  Then we fed them all chocolate milk and put them to bed.  Thankfully, this time they went to sleep right away (unlike the night before). 

The next day was sunny and beautiful.  We awoke to what sounded like thousands of birds chirping overhead.  Kind of loud, but also kind of nice.  Maybe it was only a few hundred though.  The kids played on the playground and Sarah took some pictures while Brad and I packed down the trailer.

Then we discovered that the battery on our truck was dead.  Oops!  That's what happens when you let the kids watch 30+ minutes of a movie on the truck's battery.  We won't be making that mistake again!  We quickly got a nice grandpa-man to give us a jump start.  Then we headed off towards Utah and Bear Lake.....

.... to be continued......