160 miles of tears
We set off this morning in search of snow. We were prepared with sleds, snow pants and gloves. We checked snow fall totals and talked to a weather aficionado. We headed to the rim, with visions of this in our minds. After 80 miles of nearly nonstop crying and screeching,a tense (and not good) meal at Denny’s- we arrived to find this:
Do you see that tiny bit of snow way up at the top of the mountain? My kids tried their best to make the most of what was available.
The baby had a grand time looking at all the “go-go’s” (aka: goldfish, but it was really trout at the fish hatchery). After this misadventure I decided we did not drive all this way just to have a bad meal at Denny’s and look at trout! We drove back into Payson and found a park, because that would totally make the trip worth it right? It’s not like we don’t have parks here in the Valley!
The the 2year old screamed in utter exhaustion all the way home (read: another 80 miles); finally succumbing to sleep about 20min from home. The big kids were so so SO patient (really, they were, in case you thought I was being sarcastic) with their tired sister. While I didn’t utter a single bad word the entire day, I sure as $#%** thought of a whole bunch of them!
p.s. we did see 2 bald eagles while we were out. That brings my total to four bald eagles I have seen in the wild.
February 20th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
hahaha!!! Oh, Heather! I love you!
February 21st, 2012 at 9:21 am
Isn’t that just the way things go sometimes? One of our trips when I was a child from Phoenix up to Pine took twelve hours. The radiator kept leaking and the car would over heat. It’s something we’ve never forgotten!
February 24th, 2012 at 9:41 am
that totally made me laugh when you admitted your utterings in your mind!! we have had those terrible day trips as well!! once, ours lasted for 12 hours though…in the car!!! and we were only a couple hours from home! between traffic jams and not really knowing where we were going…no good plan…(we thought we were being ‘explorative’… big disaster!! NEVER doing that again!