Road Trip – Days 25 & 26
Day 25
-Christian was feeling much better. We had him rest for the morning, and then for lunch we let him “escape from his prison”. He went to lunch and did fine. Then in the afternoon Matt took him Miniature Golfing while Ryan & Dane went swimming with a friend. I went to town with another friend (& Annika came too). We shopped the little tourist shops and had ice-cream cones. Fun times!
We had dinner (seems like that’s all we do these days is play for a couple hours and eat!). It is college style buffet type food – not the best, but not the worst and they certainly do a fairly good job getting 1900 people in and out of there in a timely way.
For the evening, we let the boys play with our friend across the hall – they had a pajama Nintendo Party (according to them. LOL) and I put Annika to bed. Oh, got all the boys ran through the bath at various times and sent back to the party as well.
Then I had a good chat on the phone with my friend from home.
Then, the boys came in and woke Annika up… ARGH Finally everyone got to sleep (It took Christian FOREVER) and we slept pretty good as well. Annika didn’t even wake up to eat all night long!
Day 26
Another beautiful day here in the Rocky Mountains. Perfect weather – upper 70’s – low 80’s with snow to look at a bit higher in the mountains. They say it is the best weather they have had all summer!
We started out with breakfast and then headed to the park. The kids played on the playground for about an hour and then Annika & I went to the class Matt was teaching while our friend watched the boys. Then we traded and I took her granddaughter and our 4 kids and we went miniature golfing. I was planning on taking the kids to lunch around 11:30, but I totally lost track of time and on hole 10 realized that it was noon and there was a LONG line at the caffeteria. Such is life.. we stood in it and made it through. We have found Dane gets very cranky if he is hungry, but soon as he is fed he is good to go again!
After lunch we rested a bit and then Matt took the boys swimming while Annika & I napped for a bit. When Annika woke up I found out that a roll of toilet paper (the kind that is individually wrapped in crinkly paper) keeps a baby enertained for a good half an hour!
The boys came back, got changed, we rested a bit and went to dinner – shorter line this time. After that we went to the main service. The kids all did really good – I even “caught” Ryan singing a couple of the songs! He wants to go back tomorrow night! They weren’t very happy we made them go (instead of having another Nintendo PJ party) but in the end it was good. On the way out there was a huge elk walking across the parking lot! The boys LOVED that! Yesterday there was a deer that walked up to the playground I guess. (wasn’t there for that one) But when we drove through the Rocky Mountain National Park it was filled with Moose & Elk! So fun to see!
Tomorrow we plan to head to downtown again as a family. Matt wanted to do that. He is done teaching his classes so he doesn’t have any major responsibilities during the day except maybe meeting with a couple of the youth who have some questions.
We were going to take 3 days to drive home from here (it’s a 16 1/2 hour drive) but decided there really isn’t a ton we want to see on the way home, so we’re just going to do it in 2 days – so our road trip will be a total of 29 days – not 30. We should be home late Sunday night. I can’t believe it is almost time to go home! The time really flew by, and I am still not totally longing to be home, but I’m sure it will feel nice when we get there! I’m hoping the memories we made on this trip will be lifelong good memories for the boys. (Obviously Annika is too little to remember any of it.) It has been good!
