Family Vacation---Day 1

Just a few weeks before our planned family vacation to Disneyland, Devin came home from work and informed me that he had to work most of that weekend when we were leaving--which meant we would have to leave later and drive straight thru to California (DON'T THINK SO), or come up with some other solution.  I thought about it and decided we should book Devin a flight to Las Vegas on the Sunday evening from Idaho Falls-and the kids and I would still leave on Saturday--meeting up with him in Vegas.

My parents stopped by our house on Friday and we took a short drive up to the high school to look at the Field of Heroes.  I know I've posted about this previously-but every time I go, I just think WOW.  Volunteers set it up just for Memorial Day weekend and it is a memorial for all of those that have been killed since the war in Iraq and Afghanistan began.  You don't know the magnitude until you see each cross with each soldiers name on it.  It really is a sombre place.

Saturday morning we woke up and packed up the car to leave.  Devin worked all night but was able to get home before we left.  I had Devin take a photo of us in front of the house right before we  left.  All smiles-

 

Still smiles in the car---but we were just at the gas station in Pocatello.

We made a stop in Salt Lake to visit Temple Square.  None of my children have been there and they were excited to get out of the car for a few minutes.  I tried, yes I really did try to get a photo of the kids in front of the statue-but NONE of them would cooperate.  Such stinkers.

It really ended up being a beautiful day to visit.  Tristan could have stayed longer, but I wanted to get to Provo at a decent time.  As soon as we parked in the hotel parking lot-I looked at Kyra and she had the "look".  The look of --oh no, I'm going to throw up---  NICE.  It was the one and only vomit episode of our journey.

 

Day 1-was successful and the kids actually slept very well.  I don't think Kyra moved at all and Brynlee was so quiet.  Maybe we should room with my parents more often.  I don't have any photos of Cortlynn because she went and hung out with Nicole at her apartment.  We won't discuss how late they stayed up.  ;-/