Vacation

Last week, Justin went on a week long motorcycle trip with his dad, brother, uncle cousin, and some other men that they met up with. They went from Salt Lake to Yellowstone and back in 5 days.

I was glad that Justin could go, but thought that there was no way that I was going to let him have a vacation, and not get one of my own. So I packed up the two kids, dropped Justin off at the airport, and kept driving the eleven more hours to Megan's house in Vegas.

And since Justin took the camera with him, I have no pictures of my trip. But I thought I'd show you some pictures of his.

Justin and his brother, Janson
The whole group together. Do you see a man holding up a picture? The picture is of a man who was supposed to be joining the group, but crashed his motorcycle and DIED on his way to meet up with everyone.
The motorcycles of just the guys in Justin's group
Justin's cousin, Andy, pretend posing to get a picture of this guy in the back. There are so many things wrong with this picture that I don't even know where to begin, so I'll let you just bask in its glory.
As for me, I had a great vacation. The drive over was SO lame, though...Charlie broke the DVD player, so I told him he just had to look out the window and entertain himself. He became like the singing bush in 3 Amigos and wouldn't belting primary songs.

At one point, I had pulled over because I thought I had missed my next freeway, so was on the phone with my dad trying to figure out where the heck I was. At the same time, I was sitting in the back seat nursing the baby and Charlie was climbing all over the seats. Just then, a cop pulled over to ask if we were alright, and Charlie yelled, "Do you know how to get to Auntie Meegie's house?" I assured him that we were fine, and he drove away. As soon as I finished talking to my dad, nursing Dylan, and put Charlie back in his carseat, I realized that the back doors had the child lock on, and the only way to get back to the front seat was to climb over it. Dylan's carseat was pushed up against Charlie's, so I couldn't just squeeze through the middle. I had to climb OVER the headrest, and with my freshly widened butt, it was a miracle I made it....but I did.

So, after all the potty stops, itchy back stops, nursing stops, and dinner stop, we finally made it. It was so worth it, too. Charlie spent the week swimming and playing with Quinn, and I spent the week enjoying the sun and hanging out with Megan. It was a perfect combination.

Justin had a layover in Las Vegas from his flight from Salt Lake to SF, so I made him miss his connecting flight so he could drive home with us. MUCH better.

For all the crazy commuting, it was a very fun week, and would do it again in a heartbeat.