Road Trip part one

From July 27th to Aug 14th we were on a trip to Vancouver WA to visit Alex’s family. We drove…and surprisingly it went relatively well. The kids really did great in the car considering how bad it could have been. Sure Tyler cried sometimes, but Erik and Adam fed him little snacks and gave him water so we didn’t have to stop every time he got hungry. It really worked out pretty well. Relatively speaking of course. Not that I want to travel anywhere else anytime soon though! We sure were glad to be home when it was all over.

I’ve got lots of pictures…so let’s get started :)

The first day the camera was in the trunk…so no pictures from Tucson to St. George UT. We passed over the Hoover Dam and stayed at Alex’s Grandma’s house that night in St. George. That’s about all I can remember. Oh, and we went to the St. George temple the next morning. It is only a block or two away from Grandma’s house! How cool!

These pictures are from the next day as we traveled through UT.

Somewhere in Utah…

Going past Provo. Seeing the Y on the mountain by BYU made me get rather nostalgic for college. We haven’t been back since we moved to Ca the summer after we graduated. We did get to briefly stop on our trip home though, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

Wed. night we stayed with friends in Layton, (Thank you Martha and family, it was great to get to visit with you all! :) Then on Thursday we continued on through Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and finally to Washington. That was the longest leg of the trip, but we made it by 9:20 pm or so.

Still in UT I think…

Playing with Buzz.

Food and stuff by my feet.

Somewhere in Oregon at  2:06 pm.

Cows in Oregon.

Windmills

Alex ;)

Me

Trees

Water

Replica of Stonehenge in Washington.

Columbia river gorge…Alex was getting excited to be close to home and see lots of big trees and stuff that we don’t have in Arizona.

We arrived at Grandpa John and Grandma Linda’s that night and were very glad to have made it through our longest road trip ever, in one piece. Well at least the getting there part of the trip…of course looming in the back of my mind was the fact that at some point we would have to come back home…but first we got to have lots of fun with relatives for a week and half (12 days to be exact). 

to be continued…