Monday, October 16, 2006
Well I waited too long to write about my trip. Im back home now. Back to everyday life. So much happened in the last week that I was there, and there wasnt really time to write about it.
I'll be brief.
We left for Utah on thursday night. Brenna stayed at a friends so there would be enough room for us in the van. Me and Adriel and Christian were in the back. Adriel was in the middle, and I fed him by hanging a boob over his seat. That was not fun. My ribs were bruised for a good while. We stayed in this condo thing the first night. John and Slavica kindly gave me the room, and them and the kids slept out in the living room. Im not sure it was worth it for them though because Slavica didnt get a good sleep, and it was supposedly the most important one before the marathon. We travelled all day friday through rain. A lot of their stuff was packed on this carrier thing that they attached to the back of the van, which means that it got really really wet because they forgot to put a tarp over it. I felt bad because half the reason that rack was needed was because my stroller took up so much room. Friday evening we arrived in Saint George. We walked around the convention centre and looked at all the different stands they had up for the marathon. Uncle Fred, Naomi, Jeremiah and his girlfriend, and Dylan and his girlfriend eventually met up with us. We all had dinner together. They were serving pasta as a marathon thing. We visited for a while and then went to the home we were staying at. They were an old couple. John and Slavica knew one of their kids in Colorado. They were nice and very typical utah grandparents. The next morning I took care of the kids while they ran. We were just ready to go see the temple (the house we were staying at was just down the road from the temple) when they phone and said they were close to the finish line. The lady we were staying with gave me really bad and wrong directions to where to finish line was, so we were way out of the way at first, but then I saw some runners, so we followed them. We were too late though. We missed John and Slavica. I was really disappointed about that.
After staying the recovery area for a while we went back to the house. John and Slavica showered and we left for Karens. Another four hours. Luckily to pass the time in their car, we were able to watch movies on the laptop. We watched Zathura, it was probably my favourite out of all the ones we watched. Surprisingly good, seeing as I didnt really like jumanji that much. I drove for a little while so John could sleep.
We arrived at Karens at about 9 at night. It was really nice to see her and the boys again. They seem really happy and to be doing well. They're all so big! Karen lives in a beautiful house, and of course it was all decorated cute for halloween. I got to stay in the theatre room downstairs. We went to church on sunday. It was better than I thought it would be because Adriel slept for most of it, and the lessons were very good. We had a thanksgiving dinner at Karens afterwards. The turkey was cooked in a turkey frier. There were some issues with that, but in the end it was very good. All crispy on the outside. We spent monday driving home and then tuesday morning I came home. I was sad to leave. The time went by so fast. It was fun getting to know everyone, and to do the girl stuff with Slavica. It was nice to come home too. I missed Kyle and he missed us too. So thats the rest of my trip, briefly
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Sarahstottle posted @ 2:49 PM