It seems like I have fallen off the edge of the earth... well, almost. Where we are right now has no cell service and limited internet access...
After Las Vegas, we made a little swipe through the corner of Arizona, then up through Utah. I'm sure there are very beautiful parts of Utah, but we were so "tourist"-ed out by that time, we just wanted to get to our destination. The wind was blowing about 40-50 miles an hour (the same wind we had in Las Vegas) on the whole drive through Utah. We were going to camp overnight about 2-3 hours from the Colorado border, but right on our heels heading into Colorado was a rain/snow storm. Because of that, we decided to keep going to Grand Junction, Colorado (right over the border) and stay in a hotel. We woke up to a cold, rainy day, so I'm thinking we made a good choice.
This is the Joshua Tree. It was plentiful in certain areas and it has it's own national park. It intrigued us, so we checked out how it got it's name on the internet and appparently it was named by the Mormons because it looked like their prophet "Joshua" waving his arms in the air... I don't quite see the resemblance, but on a hot, dry summer day in the middle of the desert, with no water in sight, I'm sure you could make it into just about anything you wanted.
On our way to our friends in Lake City, CO, we ran into snow, snow and more snow. Now, I'm a fan of snow about ONE month out of the year, and pulling a camper in the mountains with a rear-wheel drive van in the snow is not my kind of thing. Once the snow lightened up a bit, we were able to see some of the mountains, and of course they were gorgeous.
The freshly fallen snow that was strewn across the pine trees was picturesque.
We ran into a few herds of elk (well, didn't exactly "run into" them, but they were very abundant).
Steve and Ema's new log house is gorgeous. I need to get a picture of it from the outside. The rear wall of the house is covered with windows and it faces a beautiful view of the mountain range. We settled in for a few days of NO driving... Yay!! The kids jumped right back into playing together as if they'd never been apart.
We rag-curled the girl's hair for Easter Sunday. My girls love to have their hair done-up, but this was the first time (and probably not the last) for the Anderson girls to have it done...
EASTER SUNDAY
The whole town of Lake City has something like 300 people. They have five churches in town, and twice a year, all five of the churches get together to have a multi-denominational service, and Easter is one of them.
All ten kids!! Ours, and Brennen, Evan, Kailey, and blond baby Ella.
Unlike back home where I understand it was around 75 degrees, it was around 40 and a bit chilly, but the sun was out, and it was a BEAUTIFUL Easter day.
Paul left for the airport this morning and should be boarding the plane in Denver in a couple hours. He's headed back to work tomorrow, and I'm planning to start for home on Wednesday. Ema and I made a batch of Autumn Spice soap today and some yummy smelling body butter. Later we'll be making some cocoa-mint lip balm. mmmmmm-mmmmm.
Ahh, well, that's what's been going on the last few days, and for the next few, it looks much the same. TTFN
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