Idaho and Washington Adventures

 

So about a week and half ago my mother in law had to make a drive up to Spokane, WA to do some stuff for her parents who live up there.   I figured she shouldn’t be driving all that way alone and my kids hardly ever get to see their great grandparents Andres so I thought it would be fun to make it a big road trip.  However, anyone who knows me knows it was huge for me to purposely make myself be away from Perry for more that an 8 hours work shift.  I missed him terribly and it was  along week.  We decided Friday morning to go so we packed up really quick and left later that afternoon, Eyla and Raya couldn’t wait to leave so they go packing their stuff right away.  We hit road construction about 10 minutes outside of St. George and that made a 4 hour drive 7 hours.  We finally got to great grandma and grandpa Myers in Sandy late that night and then stayed up and played and talked even later.  Then me and the kids got to sleep in the quiet, cool, dark basement and didn’t wake up until about 10, it was awesome!  Then we hit the road and headed for Rexburg. 

We stopped over there for Saturday night because Aunt Shay had a dance performance and we desperately needed to see her because we miss her so much.  We got these killer front row seats and the girls probably didn’t blink for the entire 1 1/2 hours.  It was especially special for them because the could see Shay really good and she look straight at them and smile.  By the way Shay danced amazing, she is so good, look out “So You Think You Can Dance.” 

 

Lucky kids to have such a great Aunt.

 

 

It was so cute because Eyla really gets into the modern/lyrical/contemporary dancing whereas Raya really soaked in the irish/clogging stuff. You can see them doing their own separate styles.  Adorable.

 

 

   

Rockwell getting into it too. Cheering for Shay.

We went to church with Shay Sunday morning. Man was it hilarious to sit in a singles ward again.  I do not miss those days at all.  Then we hit the road again and drove 7 hours to Spokane.  This is where all the adventure begins.

Just hanging out.

 

Walks down by the river. You can’t really tell what the picture of the back of Eyla is but it is of her and her pet caterpillar.

 

 

Got to go on great grandpas boat on Coeur D’Lane.  Probably my favorite part of the trip.

 

 

I just love this picture

 

Had to add these because these are pictures I took of pictures of great grandma when she was Eylas age.  Eyla actually thought they were pictures of her at first.

 

Then Thursday night (the night before we headed home) we met up with Perry’s cousin Marianne at “Chunky” Cheeses (Great grandma kept calling Chucky Cheese, Chunky Cheese). Anyway, Marianne has little ones that are about the same age as my kids and so it was fun to see her and her little ones and let the kids try to play the games and use their coins to get tickets. 

Then the unthinkable happened, helping the girls down from the carousel I dropped my camera and jammed the lens.  I am really really really very not happy about it.  So the rest of the pictures from our trip are either on my cell phone which don’t end up looking that great and I don’t usually download those to my computer or are borrowed pictures.  And why the last 3 days of our trip aren’t very well documented. Sadness. 

 

 

Anyway, back to our adventures.  The morning after Chucky Cheese we hit the road and made it to Rexburg and spent the evening with Shay again at the park and stuff it was fun.  Then we drove down to Bountiful the next morning for the annual Myers 3rd of July swimming party and Uncle Scott and Aunt Tams.  It was a blast.

 

He doesn’t look that happy but he actually loves the water.

 

Racing Shay, yeah, she totally smoked me.

Drying off. Love them.

 

After swimming Scott let us all try out his Razor.  That was fun and I would totally rather have that than car.  Seriously.  Then we burnt some midnight oil to get home, after a potty accident and a throw-up we pulled into St. George and into Perry’s arms around 1 am.  All the accidents didn’t bother me a bit knowing that I was going to see Perry soon.  I don’t think I will ever voluntarily do that long of a trip again without him but it was fun and I did enjoy myself immensely.  Of course the kids thought it was entirely for them and are so ready for out next big road trip/party and I’m so there as soon as we get a motorhome :)!