Saturday, Day #16

Today was a very late start. First because it was a late night for us again, but second, because Pete had a tough night. He kept waking up and demanding things like a bib! I think he was having nightmares about a bad meal. At one point, Steve got up and actually found a bib and brought it to Pete and me. I put it on him. When Pete woke up this morning he looked down and looked at Steve incredulously and said “Can you take this bib off??” Straight to the moon, Alice!

We finally got our tired selves up and moving. We got everything to the car, finished up in the hotel and were on the road by 11am. Break of day by Vegas standards. We had decided to get breakfast on our way out. I love the navigation system. I typed in “Donut” and it came up with a few places that were pretty far away, and then I erased that and typed in “Dunkin” and it came up with nothing, so then I tried “Doughnut” and up popped Krispy Kreme. Both Steve and I gasped in unison. It was pretty funny. So, at 11 am we were headed 4 miles out of our way for two boxes of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. I have GOT to get back to the gym when I get home!! I have vowed that it was my last ‘sin’ for awhile. I guess Vegas does that to you.

Incredibly, throughout the rest of the day, the ‘boy in the back’ occasionally asked if he could have a doughnut. I swear he has a hollow leg. I was smart. I kept the box with me up front. We traveled through Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon (where we were supposed to have camped the night before). It was all incredibly beautiful, and we took a ton of pictures, but it was getting late, so we didn’t travel very deeply into either park (well, Zion you just drive through, but we cut Bryce short). We ate at a buffet just outside of the canyon (before the boy could attack me for the rest of the doughnuts) and headed on out towards I-70. We’ve decided to come home now. The weather showed that it is getting down into the 40s at night in Rocky Mountain National Park and I just don’t think I can do that to Pete. We’ll make it back this way some other time, and perhaps I’ll find a really cool ranch or resort to stay in. Pete will be older, and so we will probably be able to do more activities then, too.

It’s been a great vacation. We are at a Best Western somewhere in central Utah tonight. The drive through the mountains tomorrow will be wonderful, but we are ready to see the dogs and get back to our lives. So this is probably my last post (unless something amazing happens tomorrow during the drive home…but I doubt it). The kids are looking forward to seeing movies now (YES! It didn’t go on ONCE YET!!!)

Thanks to all of you who have stayed wth us and kept reading. It’s been fun to report back. And it’ll be fun to read again sometime to remember just what we did.

Steve will probably post the last of the photos once we are home. Until the next vacation...

Jen