Road Trip Part 2 Idaho Falls to Southern Utah

Monday's a new day. We all wake up early bright-eyed and bushy tailed. After breakfasting on yogurt, granola, juice and doughnuts we load back up and begin the second a final part of our journey. We had great weather yesterday and are blessed with great weather again today. (That's one of the reasons that we left on Sunday versus Monday or Saturday-trying to get past the passes before the next storm system came through.)

We retained the same configuration for the last part of our journey; it had worked so well. The roads were fine and we made good time.

When we were an hour or so North of Salt Lake City Bret called. He and Laura had flown there for Christmas and he stayed since he had business meetings to attend later the first week of January and she had to get back to Seattle for her job. We determined to meet Bret at the South Towne Mall. This was almost a deja vu kind of experience as South Towne was "our" mall when we lived in Sandy, Utah. It was wonderful to connect with Bret before he headed to Brazil. We enjoyed an early lunch; Ty enjoyed the kids area and running around the mall. Michael (Papa) bought some tokens and Ty really had fun riding the little carousel that they have near the food court at the mall. Claire stayed in the car and did fine;she sleeps most of the time anyway. Before we left the mall Bret greeted her and gave her a love. She's been a good dog and even with her foibles as an elderly dog (canine dementia,etc. see also Road Trip Part 1) she is a well loved member of the family. It was wonderful spending time with our son. We missed seeing Laura, but hope to see both of them in February.

We left South Towne after an hour and a half and drove straight through to Cedar City where we fueled up. The final 45 minutes went quickly and then we were here! It was later afternoon. We did trips to the store for much needed groceries and also much needed child proofing supplies.

Glad to be done driving!

NS