Road Trip

I'm absolutely positive my mother will love me for posting this picture, but it's so cute, she'll just have to deal with it :)

Last week my mom and I took my sister Cassie down to Jacob Lake in Arizona to work for the summer. I know that I've made that drive in 6 hours from Layton - but lets just say it took longer than that this time. This is the longest we've ever had Grace and Max in the car and over all they did pretty good. I'm so thankful for car DVD players and I don't know how we lived without them! We stopped several times for the potty and ate dinner in Richfield. But the drive between Richfield and Kanab was LONG. Grace kept saying every minute that she wanted a hotel with a pool, and it was getting late. (I did not factor in that my mom drives the speed limit in my time tables....) and it got so late I was worried about the hotel's pool closing. Needless to say we finally got to Kanab at 9:45 and checked in.

The hotel people were nice and told us we could let Grace get in the pool after it closed - and that lasted all of 5 minutes. The pool was freezing so we got in the hot tub and she just clung to me. She didn't want let go of, she was nervous when I walked to the middle and after 30 seconds she said she was ready to get out. Oh this child makes me laugh! We swam the next morning again and she was still clingy - but to hear her talk about the pool when we got home you'd have thought we swam all day and it was the funnest thing ever! She keeps telling her dad that we need to go back to Kanab and go swimming at that fun hotel again.

Jacob Lake is about an hour past Kanab so we drove over and had lunch. I ate a Grand Bull and it was perfectly delicious. I have the recipe, I've made it at home many times, but it's just not the same. I saw a few old friends and left my little sister in the middle of the forest for 3 months. I hope she has as much fun as I had all those years ago, and hope she makes a few life long friends like I did!