Trip

 I guess I should really finish talking

about our trip TWO WEEKS AGO!

Sheesh.

Let's see.....

When I last left you, I told you we missed

the car rental place by a whopping 15 minutes.

And so we got to do LOTS of walking.

We drove the truck over to the new house

and walked back to the hotel.

Then a bit later we walked BACK to the new house

to make sure they got the keys, etc.

Then walked back to the hotel.

And, of course, some Uber Eats!

And then to SLEEP (and NOT have to get

up at the crack of dawn for more driving!)

Sunday morning dawned crisp and beautiful.

We walked across the street to WalMart and

bought some snacks for our hike and a new

toque and some gloves.

Then Sondra pulled up and we loaded into her

little car and headed up the mountain!

SNOWMAN ROCK!

(without the snow... and men... lol)

It was so much fun building those guys!

The weather was perfect, a little crisp but not

hot and not cold, just right.

And if we stopped under a pine tree,

we got little chunks of icy snow dropped on us!

The hiking buddies!

They had a great time walking and talking and talking and walking...

They were very careful not to leave me in their dust.

And yes, there WAS some snow...

(My walking sticks and my boot...)

We made it to the top, just before you drop down into the

valley where the 2nd lake is.

It was getting late in the afternoon, the clouds were

rolling in, and I wasn't confident I could make it

down into the valley and then back OUT again.

So we called it quits there.

(Same place we quit back in June when it was

totally snowy... the same part of the trail was hard to

walk because this time it was full of slippery wet MUD...)

It was a great hike and a beautiful day!

Took Soni for a half-lap around the bottom lake to show her

the picnic grounds - she wants to bring Greg up there

for their wedding anniversary!

It's really beautiful and peaceful.

Once we made it back to the car,

Sondra drove us back into Logan and took us

out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse.

YUMMY yeast rolls with cinnamon butter!

(And a pretty darn good steak too... lol.)

Dropped us at the hotel and headed back to Salt Lake.

I wanted us to be off the mountain early enough she could get home

before she was too tired...

So many beautiful fall colors!

Monday was another beautiful day.

We hiked the two miles up to the car rental place

and FINALLY got a car!

And it cost as much for ONE day as it would have

for the whole weekend!

RIDICULOUS.

But we were glad to have one.

Took it and drove to the hotel to check out and then

back up to Tony Grove to walk around

the "bottom" lake.

The wind coming off the lake was pretty chilly!

The trail is so pretty!

We enjoyed it so much....

We did it TWICE!

And then headed back down the mountain

and into Salt Lake to visit with Brian at his shop!

He has quite the set up!

He and Kyle had a good visit, talking business start-up

and advertising and employee relations and and and...

I think they both enjoyed it.

By the time we got out of there (6:30) it had started to rain.

Luckily our hotel was about 2 miles away,

since the windshield wipers on the car were

pretty pathetic!!!

Door Dash this time (in honor of Matt) for a yummy

dinner and then TO BED!

And up EARLY the next morning to drive to the airport.

We weren't sure how long it would take to return the car

so we wanted to get there nice and early.

Our flight was scheduled for 9:40 and we had to return

the car and go through TSA so we got there about 7-ish.

TSA was well organized and only took 30-40 minutes to get 

through and then when we got to our gate to wait for

our flight, we got a text that we didn't have a pilot and our

flight was bumped to 11:30!

Guess we would have had time for breakfast... lol.

But at least we weren't one of the hundreds of SouthWest

flights that were cancelled that weekend leaving people

stranded all over the country.

They found us a pilot, we hopped on the plane and

made it to Denver in time to catch our next flight

(very next gate over) with time to spare - so we grabbed

a couple of Aunt Annie pretzels for the flight!

And then sat on the tarmac for an hour waiting for a

thunderstorm to blow through.

So poor Rod had to sit and wait and wait and wait in the

cellphone parking lot at the Orlando airport until we

FINALLY landed.

BOY were we happy to see him and head HOME!

And THAT... was the saga of the trip.

Not much of a vacation.

But an adventure!

And the LAST time we are going to drive a 

moving van for anybody.