About a month or so ago, we were informed that our 20-year mission reunion would be this April! (How has it possibly been that long already?!) We didn't think much about going, as it is a long drive for a few hours of meeting with friends, but, not long after hearing about the reunion, I got a message from one of my favorite mission companions asking if I was going. She lives and teaches school in China and we haven't seen each other in about six years. She said that she was thinking about going, so I immediately switched gears and told her that if she was going - so was I! A week or two later, I got an e-mail with her flight itinerary, so we 'begged' my parents to watch the kids for us so that we could go to the reunion! We had to quickly get our passports renewed (they arrived two weeks before we left). Thankfully, my parents were able to watch the kids, so bright and early this morning we headed out to Utah!
We wanted to be on the road by 6:00am, but the kids were both in tears about us leaving. It took a few snuggles to get them calmed down and excited for their time with grandma and grandpa, but they were both smiling when we left. Thankfully, the roads were great! We got to watch the sun come up!
When we got to the border, the guard asked us where we are from and where we were going. When we said we were from Cardston and going to Salt Lake, he just looked at us and said, "I don't even need to ask what you'll be doing there." Then, when I asked if he'd had lots of people coming through going to SLC, he laughed and said we were from the "from the Salt Lake of Canada". We got a good laugh out of that. Lennard, of course, had a few questions directed to him about his cast and what the knob sticking out of it was. After we left the border we came up with a bunch of replies that probably wouldn't have won us any friends at the border... ie - smuggling pouch, liquor flask, drug pouch. Good thing we aren't stupid enough to joke about it there though!
We made really good time to Utah and made it there around 5:00ish. We stopped to get something to eat at Olive Garden and were able to use their wifi to FaceTime the kids. We ate so much that we needed to walk around a bit, so we headed over to Costco to wander. It rained quite a bit on the drive down, so I bought an umbrella there. Everyone was making comments about us walking out of Costco with ONLY one item! We also went in to Seagull Books and looked around.
The blossoms and flowers were all blooming while we were there and I LOVE seeing signs of Spring. Even if it will be a bit longer for us to get there in Canada.
We still had plenty of time before we had to pick Trisha up at the airport, so we decided to go to Temple Square.
We took a short nap in the van until it was time to head to the airport and managed to time it perfectly. We were able to park right up front, walk in directly to where baggage claim was, wait about 10-15 minutes and Trisha arrived! It was SO good to see her again! Within five minutes of her arriving, her bag was there and we were on our way to Sandy to stay at her sister's house. Most of the time driving there was spent talking about Trisha's life in China and all the travelling she gets to do. We got to Marcie's house about 11:00 and shortly afterwards got to bed. We were all exhausted. Trisha had been traveling for almost 24 hours and we'd had a long drive. Marcie and her husband have nine children and are expecting their 10th, so we were surprised when they kicked a couple of their girls out of their room so that we could have a room to sleep in. So nice!
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