Road Trip in Summary

Friday we drove to Murrieta and spent the weekend with Sarah. We went to see Katie and Mikey and meet little Isaiah. 

Sunday we met my friend Meredith for breakfast in Old Town Temecula at The Gambling Cowboy. Then we drove to La Quinta to meet the Gromans for lunch. It was so good to spend the week with family and friends that we hadn't seen for awhile. 

I found a deal on hotwire.com for a bed and breakfast in Utah. We had a lovely room in an old house. In the morning we had homemade granola parfaits for breakfast before we set of for Zion National Park and two days of hiking.

The outside of the house we stayed in.

Day #1 of hiking.

Day #2 of hiking. We hiked up to Angel's Landing - which has one of the best views in the park.

This is me, already exhausted before we were halfway up.

My view as I was catching my breath. This is the path that we had taken so far.

Taking some breaks along the hike to take pictures in the cool rock formations that we passed.

"Your safety is your own responsibility. Fatalities do occur." - Translation - if you fall, you die...don't fall.

"Are we there yet?" "Yes! Finally!"

We stopped in Nebraska at a roadside coffeeshop and discovered a barn arranged as a museum to remember the original settlers of nebraska. Behind the barn was a real sodhouse, arranged as it would've been in the 1860s. There was also a buffalo and an indian riding a horse made out of barbed wire. It took about 3 miles of barbed wire to make each one. It was a nice little break from driving.

It seems Nebraska was our "history state." We stopped in Grand Island to visit a living history museum, which ended up being quite extensive. It began with a beautiful park.

Then we walked through the gate and into the year 1862 of Railroad Town, Nebraska. Only two of the buildings were built new. Most of them were just moved from various towns to create the museum.

The stationmaster was a man whose father had once worked in the very same train station - back when it was in its original town. He was very knowledgeable about the trains and effects of the trains in towns and uses of the trains and different instruments in the station. We talked to him for about a half hour. 

We drove pretty much straight through the rest of the way to Guelph. We pulled into the driveway at about 11:30 Friday night and surprised Daddy and Mama by arriving a day early.