The Salt Flats
Grand Canyon
Manny and Marla
Jeremy and Hunter
Mike and Jeremy
Tamara, Hunter and Taryn
Tamara, Rachael, Elise, Devin, Ryan, Cody, Dylan and Taryn
The kids in front of the Luxor
In July we took a family vacation to Arizona and back. Along the way we made fun stops and saw very cool things. We left on a Friday right after lunch.
Our first stop for the night was Klamath Falls, OR. The next morning we drove an hour to the Lava Beds National Monument in Tulelake, CA. There we saw Lava Beds and climbed through Ice Caves. The kids had so much fun, I don't think they wanted to leave. After the Lava Beds we drove to a Fallan Nevada and stayed there for the night.
Sunday we woke up and drove to Las Vegas. We made it just in time for dinner. After dinner we had time to walk around and see a few different hotels and do a little souvenir shopping.
Monday we were a little slow getting around not realizing how long of a drive we had ahead of us to get to Casa Grande, AZ to stay with my cousin and her family. We did finally arrive about nine o'clock that evening. We ordered pizza and chatted until we were too tired to chat. The next day we had a yummy Breakfast and a BBQ lunch. The kids got to swim and get to know their cousins.
After lunch we drove to Scottsdale, AZ to spend the next three days with Mike, Jen (Jeremy's dad and his wife) and Jeremy's little brother Hunter at their second home. We got to visit, the kids spent most of the days in the pool and we ate great food. Jeremy's grandma flew out from Iowa to visit too.
We then headed to Chandler, AZ to spend the following three days with Manny and Marla (Jeremy's dad and his wife). They didn't have room to sleep all of us so we stayed in a near by hotel. We visited and the kids swam and again we ate great food.
Monday morning it was time to head home. We stopped at the Grand Canyon before we reached our first stop in Kanab, UT. It was so cool seeing the Grand Canyon, something I'll never forget. The next day we stopped at the Great Salt Lake and met up with my very old friend Jolynn that I hadn't seen since high school. We drove to the Salt Flats on our way to Twin Falls, ID where we stopped for the night.
Finally we were on our last driving day and we were almost home. Hopefully the kids will always remember our road trip and I can't wait to do it again someday.
