Saturday, August 9, 2008

Day 2: Grand Junction, CO 8-8-08















We started getting up around 10 & were out of the hotel by about 12:30. True to our trips, we always like to try to eat at places that we don’t have at home. (Ok, so we blew it last night by eating at Carls Jr.-kind of. It’s in SLO, not MB, so technically it wasn’t home! Cut me some slack here, ok? Haha) We
found a Tommy’s world famous hamburgers. It was pretty yummy! J
Then we had to have Krispy Kreme donuts. Double yummy! We also got gas for $3.89 a gallon! Wow!!! We did actually find it for $3.69, but we didn’t need it then.
As a family we decided that we wanted to go see Hoover Dam. It was only 15 miles away & who knows when we would be back this way during the day again (other then our trip home). We got some beautiful pictures there-it looks like they are building a new bridge that will be soooo tall. There was a lot of traffic & people, so we decided to just drive & not take a tour. But we did make it into Arizona, briefly! We even got some rain & it was 102 degrees!
It was time to find a park to let Maddie run. There was a great looking park that we saw off the main road. Once we got over to it, we weren’t sure if we should get out or not-there were about 30-40 wild mountain sheep grazing on the grass! There was another open grassy area, so we let Maddie out to run around. We kept her in the middle of all of us, just in case. Michael was the brave one & took her towards the playground. What a great park it was. It had the rubbery padding on the ground, so the sheep didn’t go on it. After about 30 minutes of running & playing, it was time to hit the road. It was well after 4 by now & we haven’t even started on our trip! We have over 500 miles to go before our next hotel in Grand Junction, Colorado. Our estimated time of arrival is now 1:00am & that is without any stops.
By 6:00 Maddie still has not fallen asleep. She has done so well. What an amazing girl! Thank you God! Thank you too, for Lindsay & Matt helping out so much with her.
We stopped for dinner in Mesquite, NV around 6:30-7 at a place called Buffalo. From there we hit the long dusty trail to get to Grand Junction, Colorado. Maddie fell asleep around 9:30 or so & slept until about 1:45. What a great nap she had. She woke up in a pretty good mood, but still wanted Mom back by her. So we did the seat switch-a-roo again. We watched several videos together. We were all getting pretty tired by this point & we still had a few hours to go. Poor Michael with all that driving. I wonder what that part of the world looked like! We did see lots of signs to watch for deer & elk!
We arrived at our Holiday Inn Express about 4:15 mountain time. What a neat room we had-it was a suite, with our room separate from the kids. Both Lindsay & Matt got to have their own beds! They were so jazzed-they didn’t have to share with us. After 10 mins of trying to figure out how to set up the crib the hotel provided for us, we finally figured it out! We ARE smarter then the crib! Wohoo! Again, Maddie was afraid of going to sleep in the crib, so I brought her to bed with us. We had THE biggest bed! It was awesome! When Maddie finally fell asleep she was laying perpendicular between us! It did take her a while to unwind! I think I was finally able to put her to bed about 5:30, but then I was wide awake! Thought about going to have breakfast that started at 6! LOL Didn’t. Time to get some shut eye before we start out again. Shorter trip from Grand Junction to Denver! Thank goodness! Until then…

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