After two weeks, we are finally home. We made a lot of miles, over 3200, and saw a lot of places we'd never seen before. Our first stop was my mom's house in Chandler, Arizona. We went to the Nascar races for two days which was super fun! You may have seen our sign on TV at Race Day on Speed. I had a shopping day with my sister while M and my mom went to a movie and we had several meals with my mom, sister and brother-in-law. Always so fun to see them.
From Chandler we went to Yuma to clean out M's parents' camper. They sold it so we crammed as much stuff as we could in the trunk of our car and called it good. We got a lot more stuff in than was on their list so we think we did good. Their very good friends showed us around their place and took us out for supper and we visited with them for hours! They also gave us some home grown grapefruit and oranges. We ate oranges all the way home and they were awesome.
From Yuma we headed north toward Las Vegas with a stop at the Hoover Dam. M has always wanted to see it. The new bridge there is pretty impressive. We got into Las Vegas on Wednesday afternoon and waited for the rest of the group to arrive.
M's sister, her husband, her daughter and a friend were the first to arrive on Thursday so we all went out for lunch. Then came J and K, C and his wife and a few more. There were 26 in our group once they all arrived. J and K had never been to Vegas before so they were busy, busy. They saw a lot and did a lot of things and walked A LOT! Unfortunately, we don't think K is going to be a big race fan. She was a good sport, but I'm not sure we can talk her into going again.
Almost everyone was flying out on Tuesday morning, but our plan was to leave on Monday since we were driving and it would take two good days to get home. M's sister tried really hard to get us to stay another day. I checked the weather report and it didn't look good through Utah with a winter storm warning starting Monday evening so I thought we should get out of there and try to get ahead of it so we took off early Monday morning. A lot of times I am really ready to get home after a trip, but this time I wasn't anxious to go home, just felt like we should get home. I am glad to be back where there are no people and no traffic!
We had barely gotten into Utah when we ran into rain that turned to snow with slush on the highway. We saw a half dozen cars in the ditch and a jack-knifed truck. Not very fun. We stopped for a potty break and the clerk said it was just rain farther north and that nothing was happening in Salt Lake at that time. The precip did turn to rain again, but by the time we got to Salt Lake it was a torrential downpour. The visibility was so bad for 100 miles with four lanes of traffic through construction. We finally ran out of it and thought we'd be good the rest of the way to Butte which was our goal destination.
Just across the Idaho-Montana line we ran into snow again and by this time it was dark. It was hard to see the lines on the highway and we were getting tired so we ended up stopping in Dillon. The rest of the trip was great with sunny skies and bare roads. We stopped in Harlem to have lunch with our friends there and then continued on home.
We were greeted by 1 degree temps and a nearly blocked road to our house. Ugh! M spent the day plowing and I've been doing laundry. I'm sure he's missing me after being together 24/7 for two weeks. He had to remind me that we won't be going anywhere again until fall. I think I can get him to change his mind.
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