July 10

We stopped at Applebee's for dinner at Rock Springs. The food was great - the waitress terrible. The biggest problem with this was when we got back in the car at 9:00 with 3 hours left to go we just didn't feel like driving. About 1/2 hour later is was fighting to keep my eyes open and Rick asked me if I wanted to drive, which means he is really tired to because he rarely asks me to drive. I told him I was too tired. He said he would try to push on but just about then we saw a Truck Stop coming up. I said, "lets just pull in - go to sleep and drive the rest of the way in the morning. " Suprisingly he pulled in. We had a bit of a hard time finding a spot, there were a lot of trucks there but we finally did and we pulled out the beds and were asleep in 15 minutes.

About 4:30 or so the trucks started firing up and heading out, this of course woke me up. I laid there for a few minutes and realized I wouldn't be going back to sleep. So I just got up and fired up the rv and headed out. Rick came up a few minutes later when he realized we were moving to find out what was going on. He went back to bed for a while and I drove till about Salt Lake before anyone else woke up.

Anna woke up first, looked around and realized she recognized where we were. She was so excited she woke up everyone else. I switched and let Rick drive at the first Springville exit, that he would be the one to drive us in and I also needed a few minutes to gather the kids's clothes and stuff so we could hurry in and take showers and make it to church on time.

We pulled in the driveway at 7:45 and made it to church at 9:00. It was good to be home and start the rest of summer but I wish we could have had a couple more weeks. All in all the trip was wonderful, too short with too much packed in. I would have loved to be able to take the whole summer. One thing I realized is that for 6 weeks we could just separate ourselves from virtually all responsibilities and focus on the most important part of our lives. Our family, our church and our country.