We were gone for 31 days.
We traveled 3518 miles.
We didn’t ever pay more than $4 for gas. Hallelujah!
Hunter has his driver’s permit and he drove 6 hours throughout our road trip – which gave me a much needed break.
License plates: We found 47 our of 50 states. We missed finding Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont. I do feel as though our license plate game was a little weak because Hallie didn’t travel with us and she’s usually our eagle eyes.
Steve and Hallie flew in twice to visit. And I had to fly to Arizona for girls camp with Steve and my kids stayed with my parents.
Sports Camp: Sent both Bennett and Hunter to BYU Soccer camp and watched Hunter play in one tennis tournament.
We attended one family reunion.
We purchased 8 dresses. We did some of Hallie’s mission shopping and I think we both quickly realized neither one of us enjoy shopping. Online shopping is more our style.
We went to Scheels in both Idaho and Utah and yet we’ve still never been in Arizona. The kids rode the ferris wheel three times.
We met two new babies in the family. Both a niece and nephew from the same family recently had babies and I got plenty of snuggle time.
We watched three missionary farewells on Zoom – Hallie’s friends.
My boys went on a camping trip with my dad, my brother and their cousins.
I was able to see friends from high school, a teacher/coach from high school, visited friends at their Lake House, had dinner with friends in Utah and went to the Provo Rec Center with a dear friend who moved from Arizona up to Utah. I love the opportunities to connect with so many people through our summer travels.
We purchased 21 loaves of grandma sycamore bread. Oh how I wish we could still purchase it in Arizona. We didn’t eat all of it yet – we have several loaves in our freezer now!
We watched almost every Euro Cup and Copa America soccer game.
The kids caught both snakes and fish and oddly enough seemed more comfortable holding the snake than they did the fish. Go figure.
We floated the river, went bridge jumping, swam in ponds and pools (public, private and rec centers) and enjoyed an evening wake surfing. We got good use from packing our swimsuits.
Hallie said a lot of tearful goodbyes knowing she wouldn’t see many of these people for another two years.
And the sun has set on our summer roadtrip – time to turn our attention to getting ready for school.
