Family Visit in Utah

Should have been posted on 30 May 2008

Being on vacation has been a blast and non-stop go, go, go. It started Friday afternoon, after work, with a drive to the Bay area (San Francisco,) where we stayed overnight and spent the morning with Jaime, Jason and the grandkids. Then about 1 o’clock, we got on Bart and traveled to the airport for a flight to Salt Lake City. There we went to Joseph’s house where Jared and Joel & families had gathered to spend Memorial Day weekend together. Saturday evening we spent socializing as most of the kids were asleep. Sunday after church, we had fun with the kids and playing on the computers. We set up a links system on Joseph’s computer and we had 6 laptops all online together. We played games and Suzanne showed everyone some of the tools and things you can use on our blog pages. On Monday, we took all the kids to the Treehouse Museum where they ran around and dressed up, made crafts, went to story time, slid down the tree tunnel, and got to sit in the President’s chair in the Oval Office (replica.)

We then had a picnic lunch, with sandwiches, fruit, and drinks, with desert, being frosted animal crackers. We then loaded up the kids and took them to Hill Aerospace Museum. There the kids (and grandpa) got to see a lot of the planes that were flown by the Air Force. The highlight was seeing the SR-71 (Blackbird) spy plane. Joel, Julie, Damon, and I got our picture taken in front of a Flying Tiger plane that was flown in China prior to the start of World War II. We were told that the teeth were painted on the plane, because there were stories that Japanese pilots were afraid of being eaten by Sharks. They got the tiger name because the Japanese said in their first battle they fought like tigers. Monday’s dinner was a BBQ with steaks, corn on the cob, and hotdogs for the kids. Tuesday, Jared & Joel along with their families, left for home. Grandma stayed for the rest of the week, while Grandpa left with Joseph for the International Trombone Festival. We’ll talk about that in the next entry.