ELLISON: Ruined Plans but Still a FUN Weekend.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Ruined Plans but Still a FUN Weekend.

For School Chloe has to do a big project on San Juan County. So awhile back we made plans to travel to a few of the spots in her county over General Conference weekend. Are plan was to go to the four corners and the Grand Canyon both which have a part of them that resides in San Juan County. We had a motel and campsite reserved. Then the week of our trip the Governments shuts down and with it so do our plans. We were hopeful that it might be opened by the time Friday rolled around, but as Thursday came we realized that probably wasn't going to happen so we canceled our motel and good thing we did, because the government is still shut down. Chloe was so sad about the whole thing but we are hoping to be able to try and go again in February before her project is due.

We tried to make the most of our now Stay-Cation. We went to Chloe's soccer game and watched General Conference. We spent some time at my Grandma's having lunch one day and breakfast the next in between washing batches of laundry (our dryer is out and we are waiting for the part to fix it). The kids had fun playing with Sam who was staying at Grandma's house for a few days. We also went out for ice-cream Saturday after the priesthood session of conference.

We decided that Sunday we would take a little drive while we listened to conference and kind of have a picnic and just hang out. We drove up to Kolob Reservoir. The ride was very pretty. The kids love being in the great outdoors. I bought Bryce a hiking backpack on the online yard-sale sight awhile back in anticipation of our trip and it ended up coming in handy for this little outing. He was happy as a clam letting his brother, who insisted on carrying him, pack him around. We walked a little, ate lunch, and threw the football around a bit before we headed home. We had a little scare on the way home as we first saw two cars on the mountain roads that had been in a head on. We passed on by as we could see they had it under control as we went along we were kind of letting Bryce be up out of his seat because we were on dirt back roads in the mountains and were just kind of taking it slow and easy but a little bit pass the wreck I had a feeling that he needed to be buckled in. We got him strapped in and minutes after a truck with some kind of drunken idiots came around a turn going way to fast, lost control, and came inches away from slamming into us, if we wouldn't have stopped to buckle Bryce in when we did the chances of them hitting us and him being injured would have been almost imminent. We were all so glad that I listened to that prompting to buckle in our little guy. We enjoyed the rest of the drive home while listening to the last session of conference.

Ostrich's we saw on the way up...