Out door family time!
Easter 2013 was a blast. We woke up super early on Friday morning (5:00 am!) I have to admit I can't remember the last time I was up that early! We packed the last few items into our motor home, and headed to Goblin Valley UT. Kaylee was so excited, and couldn't quite figure out why we were leaving in the "middle of the night." It took us about 4 and a half hours to get there... and being 8 months prego the ride was pretty uncomfortable! We finally made it, and found a fun camping spot right up next to the beautiful sandstone walls and caves. Nicks sister Kelli, her hubby Jason, and their cute cute daughter Maddie arrived latter that night. The girls spent the whole weekend playing in the dirt and sand... at one point Kaylee started making "sand angles"... I gave up trying to keep her clean at that point. My favorite part of our little getaway was watching the girls find their Easter baskets and eggs that were hidden in the rocks. We went for a couple of "hikes"... more like walks, through some slot canyons... I was pretty proud that I made it the whole time without going into labor. :) The whole weekend was wonderful... good food, weather, and friends... until the way home. We decided to leave on Sunday afternoon, and see if we couldn't find a cool spot by a river to camp for the night. Nick did some re-search and we headed to Green River Utah... DON'T... I repeat...DON'T ever go to Green River!! It was the creepiest ghost of a town I have ever been to! I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would ever want to live there. All of the businesses looked like they had been closed for 10 + years (except for a few gas stations) and there was one normal looking home we saw while driving through. Well, following the directions we had found on some random web site... there was supposedly a cool little beach to camp on the river just outside of town. We found the little dirt road, and our first sign that we shouldn't go down the road. However we stupidly kept going... thinking it can't be that bad right? Wrong! After about taking off the roof to our motor home, due to a huge overgrow tree... we got high centered on a huge rock we somehow missed. After successfully getting off the rock we decided maybe we should turn around... (it takes us a couple of times before we get the hint!) So we (being very stressed out at this point)... decide to make a 106 point turn around with a 30 foot motor home... on a tiny dirt road... Ya it only got worse. After our wheels got stuck in the dirt/sand, and finding we had no cell service, all I could think was "please don't go into labor... PLEASE!" ... After 2 hours of digging... crying.. praying, and saying a few choice words... we were finally able to get unstuck! What a relief .. but now how to get the motor home turned around?! Nick was so "done" by this point, that we just decided to back the motor home out the whole mile onto the main road... very stressful, and scary, and kaylee just kept on saying "we are gunna be stuck here forever!" Finally we made it back to Green River... I was actually glad to see the creepy old town again, but we weren't staying, and got the heck out of there. Green River Utah is where vacations go to die!! And the whole time driving on that dirt road, I couldn't stop thinking about the movie "Rat Race" when the two women are in the car, trying to find a short cut, (after not buying a Squirrel from crazy lady)... and then flying off a cliff .. and seeing signs the whole way down why their car is flying that said "You should have bought a Squirrel!!!!) Now that is our motor home motto... I have it on a posted note by the steering wheel! After all that mess we found a nice little spot at a rest area about 23 miles from Price to stay for the night. I guess its not really a road trip unless something goes horribly wrong... right? All in all we had a great time!!
Easter 2013 was a blast. We woke up super early on Friday morning (5:00 am!) I have to admit I can't remember the last time I was up that early! We packed the last few items into our motor home, and headed to Goblin Valley UT. Kaylee was so excited, and couldn't quite figure out why we were leaving in the "middle of the night." It took us about 4 and a half hours to get there... and being 8 months prego the ride was pretty uncomfortable! We finally made it, and found a fun camping spot right up next to the beautiful sandstone walls and caves. Nicks sister Kelli, her hubby Jason, and their cute cute daughter Maddie arrived latter that night. The girls spent the whole weekend playing in the dirt and sand... at one point Kaylee started making "sand angles"... I gave up trying to keep her clean at that point. My favorite part of our little getaway was watching the girls find their Easter baskets and eggs that were hidden in the rocks. We went for a couple of "hikes"... more like walks, through some slot canyons... I was pretty proud that I made it the whole time without going into labor. :) The whole weekend was wonderful... good food, weather, and friends... until the way home. We decided to leave on Sunday afternoon, and see if we couldn't find a cool spot by a river to camp for the night. Nick did some re-search and we headed to Green River Utah... DON'T... I repeat...DON'T ever go to Green River!! It was the creepiest ghost of a town I have ever been to! I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would ever want to live there. All of the businesses looked like they had been closed for 10 + years (except for a few gas stations) and there was one normal looking home we saw while driving through. Well, following the directions we had found on some random web site... there was supposedly a cool little beach to camp on the river just outside of town. We found the little dirt road, and our first sign that we shouldn't go down the road. However we stupidly kept going... thinking it can't be that bad right? Wrong! After about taking off the roof to our motor home, due to a huge overgrow tree... we got high centered on a huge rock we somehow missed. After successfully getting off the rock we decided maybe we should turn around... (it takes us a couple of times before we get the hint!) So we (being very stressed out at this point)... decide to make a 106 point turn around with a 30 foot motor home... on a tiny dirt road... Ya it only got worse. After our wheels got stuck in the dirt/sand, and finding we had no cell service, all I could think was "please don't go into labor... PLEASE!" ... After 2 hours of digging... crying.. praying, and saying a few choice words... we were finally able to get unstuck! What a relief .. but now how to get the motor home turned around?! Nick was so "done" by this point, that we just decided to back the motor home out the whole mile onto the main road... very stressful, and scary, and kaylee just kept on saying "we are gunna be stuck here forever!" Finally we made it back to Green River... I was actually glad to see the creepy old town again, but we weren't staying, and got the heck out of there. Green River Utah is where vacations go to die!! And the whole time driving on that dirt road, I couldn't stop thinking about the movie "Rat Race" when the two women are in the car, trying to find a short cut, (after not buying a Squirrel from crazy lady)... and then flying off a cliff .. and seeing signs the whole way down why their car is flying that said "You should have bought a Squirrel!!!!) Now that is our motor home motto... I have it on a posted note by the steering wheel! After all that mess we found a nice little spot at a rest area about 23 miles from Price to stay for the night. I guess its not really a road trip unless something goes horribly wrong... right? All in all we had a great time!!
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