We were supposed to leave last night to go to Grandpa’s house, but after scouts, and the chaos of packing and loading the van (while Kyle was on the phone working out details for a job back at Symantec) we decided to try to get some sleep and leave in the morning instead. We woke the kids up pretty early and Adam was very excited to wear his backpack to go bye bye.
Before we could actually leave town though, we had to stop off and pick up Debby and Rexton. Jeff couldn’t get the time off to make the trip, and Debby didn’t really want to go alone with the baby so she decided to come along with us.
A couple of hours down the road, someone asked about Chewy. I thought Kyle had brought him to the car, but I guess Kyle didn’t see him anywhere while we were getting loaded up this morning, so he thought maybe a kid to him to the car. But after questioning the kids it turns out that Chewy didn’t make it to the car at all. We were so far away already that it would have been foolish to turn around to go get him, so since we left Jeff with the key and instructions for feeding Jango and the cat, we had to let him know that Chewy got left behind and was there as well.
We made several stops on our way to Grandpa’s house to give the kids time to wiggle and stretch their legs. We even got to drive through the Virgin River Gorge during the day time! That hasn’t happened in a long time. We usually leave so late that the sun goes down before we get to that stretch of the drive, or we are driving through the night to begin with.
By the way, here is a pretty rock I took a picture of while we were passing by.
