The trek west....

begins like this...

Left on Friday morning

Got to Cookeville, Tn. and died...literally just died...

Left at 6:30 am from the hotel and decided no more stopping if we were to make it to Utah by Sunday night!

Stopped in Oklahoma City, Ok. for a Valentine dinner and continued our all night driving with me at the wheel...




By morning we were in Albuquerque, NM





That afternoon we were in Arizona and decided to make a stop at the Grand Canyon!
Beautiful! Breathtaking! We were at the tower pictured below and it was so interesting and wonderful to be able to go! We can't wait to take our kids and Dan's dad there this summer!


Funny thing happened while there, the crows there were as big as chickens and as you can well imagine, they must eat VERY well at this national park. We got back to the car and there was a crow right by the car, so I start video taping him and then Dan throws me 1/2 a cookie and says to throw it to the crow...so, I do...as the crow rushes to the cookie and puts it in his mouth, he makes this noise and all of a sudden the sky turns black and it is literally a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds!!!!!!! they are swooping down all over our car and I am screaming and trying to roll up our window before one of them flies into the car and plucks out an eyeball! It was all caught on video and is quite comical...when I get home I will see if Jaz can upload it for you all to see!



We continued our drive to the Beehive state and finally made it to Eagle Mountain at 9:15 pm to a houseful of nieces, nephews, Loni, mom and Sela!!! What a happy night!


So glad we are here and safe and that it wasn't as long or as hard as the real trek across the plains!