This year we decided to take a couple of weeks and visit family out west that we haven't seen in a while. We started the trip by me and the girls packing up the car and heading out to grand junction co. to pick up mike who had been out there working . The girls loved going through the mountain pass between Denver and Grand Junction, they thought it was beautiful I did to except I have never driven that pass and was clutching the steering wheel while telling them all the memories I had of my dad driving us through here almost every summer to visit my grandma and grandpa. For some reason driving there with my kids made me miss my grandparents and all the fun we had when we were, I am sure my kids were sick of me reminiscing. We meet up with mike and took off for St. George Ut to hang out with Mike's brothers family. We made a stop in Moab to show the kids the beautiful arches, they were not to impressed to due the fact the heat was overwhelming and they were tired of hiking. We did get to see some beautiful scenery and I am mike enjoyed it.
We finally made it to St. George and enjoyed several days with Chuck and his family. We tortured the children with more hiking in the heat and we also took them Gunlock Res. to swim which we learned our children are city children and have never really swam with fishes and it freaked them out at first but the over came and enjoyed their time. We also took them to Dixie State College where we took them done memory lane and showed them all the spots dad and mom used to work and what we did while we were at college. We took the girls to play laser tag Payne Family vs Payne Family sort of the girls feel in love with laser tag and now want to play as often as possible. This should take care of part one of the vacation part two will be later.
