Utah: Our New Adventure

Well we have been in Utah for a week and half now. I thought it was about time I give everyone an update. But let me tell you it has been a really long week and a half. We have accomplished so much and been so busy, that it feels like we have already been here a month.

So first let me tell you about our trip up to here.

My mom and brother Michael flew down to Arizona from Utah to help us move. They arrived in Phoenix at 9pm on the 15 of August. Michael and I didn’t pick them up until 9:30 due to a computer malfunction. You see when we went to go pick them up at the Phoenix airport we accidently went into the parking garage instead of the pick up area. Simple mistake if you have ever been to the Phoenix air port I’m sure you understand. You know when you go into a parking garage they have the bars that block your way and you pull a ticket and the bar will go up. Well, there was a bar already up so we just kind of slipped through there. Well that was a mistake. When you found our way out of the garage and down to place where you hand your ticket in we didn’t have one. So we explained our situation to the guy in the booth and he ended up having to call his manager down who asked us a million questions and checked our license plates and the whole 9 yards. It was crazy we were stuck there for 15 min or more. But they ended up letting us go and not charging us anything so it worked out in the end.

So the next morning we woke up at 7am. (We didn’t get to sleep until 12am) Michael and I went and picked up the truck. And my mother, and two brothers Michael and Leon came and helped us load it up. So we left our clean apartment and some family, friends, and Tucson AZ behind us at about 11am on the 16th.

Our drive started out perfectly fine. We stopped for lunch at Culver’s in Casa Grand. Were the to Mike’s thought it would be funny to hide from me and my mother make us look all over the place for them and the pretend nothing happened. After a good laugh we continued our drive.

My mom owns a pair of small blue walky-talky’s which we used to communicate in-between the moving truck and the Honda civic (my car was being towed behind the moving van). This turned out to be a great idea because, for starters, after going up and down many hills and my mom and brother both being speed devils and pushing the van to the max we where afraid the van was about to over heat. So we pulled off at a K-mart in Kingmen. We looked around for a bit and Mom and Mike (my brother) decided to purchases an aux cord so they could listen to the I-pod in the moving truck. After this we were on the road once again.

But only a half hour out of Kingmen disaster really strikes. We get a flat. On the trailer that is pulling my car. Luckily Michael decided to buy the insurance for the moving van so it was covered, and we were able to call the 24 hour road side assistance. But we were delayed an hour and a half. Yep an hour and half stranded in the middle of no where. Really take a look! No where!

There are blessings among all trials.

this is Michael #1 being hot in both meanings of the word :)

This is mom attacking Michael #1 for teasing her!

This is the middle of No Where

This is our flat tire

These are the cones we set up.

This is Michael #2 playing on his smart phone.

Sorry the pictures didn't come out in the order I wanted. All well!

So we sat and talked and read books listened to music. Mom was bitten by an ant and I was attacked by a 3 inch long black betel. Mom and I where looking at stars, they were fantastic in the middle of no where when Mom looks over at me and screams and yells at me not to move. When of course I start to stream and yell “What?! What?!” at the top my lungs. The betel falls off while I’m dancing around trying to see why I’m not supposed to be moving. And the Mike’s are over across the way just laughing at us!

But our handy dandy fix-it man shows up and we are out on the road again once more!

We cross over the hover dame and stop for dinner at the casino at about 10pm. After a really yummy much deserved dinner we headed out for saint gorge and bed. We arrived there at about 1:45 and we were in bed if plans to sleep in by 2am.

My husband is great! But there is one thing I wish he was capable of. And that’s sleeping in. He just can’t sleep past 6 or 7. So, that’s when we were up. Mom and brother Mike where still asleep. So I gave him his game boy and tired to sleep a bit more but that didn’t work out so well. So we hung out in the room for a bit then we were off to the pool! It was so nice!!! We were able to swim around stretch out our muscles and relax in the hot tub. (Ahhhh…. I wish I could be there now!) After that we got some breakfast at a local restaurant. And where back on the road by 11.

We arrived in Pleasant Grove, where we are now located for about one more week, at about 4 o’clock. We unloaded the truck at my Uncle Dean’s house, where he letting us stay why he is on his honey moon. Then we crashed while mom went and bought food for us at a really yummy place called the Purple Turtle. Where apparently President Obama stopped to eat. Got figure…

And that my friends was our move up here. I believe that is long enough for blog for now. I will fill you in on the rest here shortly.

LOVES!!!