For years our boys have heard stories about how my family would wake up and decide to drive somewhere off the beaten path to get breakfast or a shake or just to go for a drive. They have also heard our stories from BC (before children) about how we would take off for the day or the weekend and take these impromptu little trips. Both boys have been pestering us to take a road trip for a while and always want to just go anywhere. So, today was the perfect day to take a family day and a small road trip. Since today was Kenny's only day off this week we had to make sure we kept it to today and didn't make us too tired because tomorrow starts another long week. We had a couple different choices but decided that it would be fun to run out to the West to Wendover, NV (and Utah) and get lunch at one of the buffet's in one of the casino's. To the border we headed!
While we drove west, we shared all kinds of stories about their Grandpa and things that he did, other drives that we had enjoyed and family vacations. It was going exactly like it should, we had turned down the radio and just talked and laughed the entire way out. It was fun to share stories from Kenny's and mine childhoods and to realize how much of our earlier family vacations our boys don't remember. I'm glad that we have waited until now to start doing this again so that they will remember these little days together.
They showed me a place called Lone Rock where they went for a Boy Scout camp out. It was a horrible place for a camp out (in my opinion, but I'm not a boy). It was in the middle of nowhere in the desert. Out of nowhere I hear Taylor in the backseat announce that, "he is getting dehydrated just going through the desert." I swear, that boy. We had so many little moments like that the whole time.
We ended up at the Rainbow Casino and had lunch at their buffet. It is so bright and tacky, the perfect decor for a casino :) It was so funny, I had all the boys move together to take their picture and suddenly Kelton and Taylor had to grab their drinks and make it look like they were drinking. They are hilarious.
On our way out of the Casino I noticed the gift shop. They had so many cool things. I could have spent so much time just in that little store. While we were there we decided to get us a little souvenir. Kenny, Kelton and Taylor all got new sunglasses and I got a charm bracelet.
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| T with his glasses |
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| Kelton with his glasses |
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| My charm that is on my bracelet |
It always seems like the drive home goes a little faster than it does heading out even though it is the same amount of miles. We were much more subdued on the way home, I think we were ready for some quiet with our full bellies. At least that was how it was for a while.
I did get a few pictures while we were driving back toward civilization.
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| Looking North over the Salt Flats |
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| Our famous tree sculpture in the desert |
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| Warning sign that just hit me funny at the rest stop. Not just snakes but scorpions also!? Where are we? |
Since Grantsville is on our way home we stopped by Kenny's Moms house to say hi and we were able to see his cousin Austin and his fiance Andrea. It was really nice to meet Andrea, she was really sweet. We had a good visit there and the boys got to play with a couple of their cousin's. We then headed to Tooele to see Grandma Susie, Richard and Great Grandma Ruth. We were so tired by the time we got there that we didn't spend too much time there. It was great to see everyone and we did get to have a good visit there as well.
We squeezed in everything that we wanted to do and spent tons of time together as a family and even made it home before bedtime. It was an amazing Sunday!!
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