School is out, spring is here, and it's time to create a space to share our adventures with our family and friends! Kenny and I just finished a cross-country trip to visit the Baldwins in New York and bring our new car back home to Utah. We enjoyed time with Ken's family, having barbecues, hikes, shopping trips, "Iron Man," and walks with Dakota, their German shepherd. Of course, we also snuck in a Yankees-Mariners game in NYC, where we missed a foul ball because we were in the bathroom/looking for a spot to get warm! Then we embarked on a drive through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, and finally home to Utah. We "off-roaded" to Costco in Ohio, accidentally broke a headboard in our Marriott in Illinois, stopped at a Dairy Queen in Iowa (mmm...dip cone...), raced a severe thunderstorm in Nebraska, stopped at a Wyoming hotel/restaurant that Kenny suspects was decorated and furnished with left-overs from a condemned casino, and ran through the rain at the outlet mall in Park City, Utah.
Now that we're home, we've celebrated our successful and safe return home with a round of spring cleaning, job hunting, guitar playing, lawn mowing lessons, and a "Lord of the Rings" marathon. What is on the horizon? An "Indiana Jones" refresher in preparation for the upcoming movie, a rabidly-anticipated viewing of "Batman: The Dark Knight," a new job for me and maybe one for Kenny, the "Office" season finale, exercise, tomato plants that don't shrivel up and die in freak snowstorms, catching up on reading and movie lists, a Lagoon trip, and welcoming my beautiful niece into the world!
Kenny in front of his house.
View from a family barbecue - the mysterious Catskill Mountains of Washington Irving's "The Tale of Rip Van Winkle."
A bonfire at Bryan's house.
Idyllic Iowa - the state my mom's Dutch ancestors helped settle.
Driving toward a gigantic thunderstorm in Nebraska.
The storm right outside our restaurant in Kearny, Nebraska.
A cool rock formation in Wyoming.
Coming home to Utah - but it looks more like Oregon!
1 comment:
"...stopped at a Wyoming hotel/restaurant that Kenny suspects was decorated and furnished with left-overs from a condemned casino"--bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! Best part of the blog!!! I loved the thunderstorm pic/video, too--if I'd been there, I would have wanted to wet my pants!
I also loved the description of your major--it made me want to go back to school! Keep updating--even if the events you report on seem lame (like, oh, making your own pacifier clips). The rest of us will find your stories interesting, even if you don't think they are!! :) MG
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