Utah

We decided that our lives did not have enough excitement in it..so we decided to drive to Utah very last minute. Nate woke up three Mondays ago asking should we do something crazy? At first I thought that he was going to take the day off work and we would go somewhere. His family was having their family reunion that originally we were not going to, but then we decided with his mom sick it would be good to go. We were going to leave it a surprise for his family. My parents we actually told, since they would be the ones that we would stay with.
We left on a Friday afternoon and drove 31 hours straight. Stopping a few times for bathroom breaks and that is it. We took turns driving through the night..that was actually not too bad. The kids did fairly well sleeping..as much as they could in the car. We stopped in Cheyenne Wyo for the night...but all the hotels were booked because of Sturgis (the big motorcycle thing). So we drove another hour to Laramie and stayed the night. Nate broke into hives from head to toe early Saturday morning and he was not feeling well from lack of sleep...so he laid on the bed as soon as we entered the room.
Needless to say it was up to me to get the luggage up and dinner for the kiddos. We woke up the next day and finished our 6 hour drive. I think we hit every single rest stop from Laramie to Ogden, silly kiddos. We spent Sunday afternoon with my parents and relaxed.
Monday we had a lazy morning and then stopped at Target for some things that we had forgotten. Then it was off to the Treehouse museum. The kids could have stayed in the place all day. Nate ran into one of our close friends from Taylorsville there with her two kids. It was great catching up with her on everything that was going on in their lives. She might be coming out to D.C. next month, so we might get to spend more time talking.
We spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Bear Lake with the McKinstry's. Thursday with my fam and we left about 10 that night. We drove straight for 22 hours, and stayed the night in Kansas City Missouri. Nate refused to stay in Kansas..so we had to at least make it just over the boarder. The second night we stayed in Kentucky. Nate added an extra 4 hours to the trip, without me realizing it until it was too late. He wanted to go I-70 home and go through Kentucky. We took I-80 to Utah and it took us 37 hours, coming back it took us 44 hours. Coming home always seems to take longer. We are glad that we did this insane trip.