The "Trip" 6/26/08 - 7/6/08

To the right is the picture of the little "dump". Million dollar views all around but the house is only one step above camping and not even that when we left this time. The trip was eventful in many not to good ways. We lost our fuel pump just south of Cedar City. Had to be towed, stay at a Motel 6 and missed hanging out with Gary and Jen on Thursday night as a result. Note: We only stayed at the Motel 6 as they were the only hotel/motel that took pets. I am thankful they were there however we will never stay there again or at any other motel that isn't at a minimum a Hampton Inn or Marriott of some sort again unless it is an extreme emergency as this was. It was pretty new however I still didn't remove my flip flops or use their pillows. Need I saw more. When we got to the house, we had water leaks in the kitchen and bathroom as the pipes froze and split over the winter. We had no water for two days until Riley could get it fixed. Then on Thursday, July 3rd when Gary and Jen were to come out, the toilet plugged up. To make a long story short, after having dug up a clean out in the driveway to get the snake through, the underground utility guy who was doing this discovered that the plug was in the City's main. It was 6:30 pm, no city help in sight so we decided to schedule the demo of the house for next July with the guy and then go eat. Next year we will go up early for the reunion, pack up our stuff from the house for storage in the garage and then open the place up to whoever wants to come in and take what they want like the stove, refrigerator, dishes pots and pans, etc. I won't mess with having a garage sale as you don't make enough money for the work it takes to prepare so this should be interesting.

We left the next morning for Gary and Jen's and had a nice 4Th with them. Here's a couple more pictures from the game:










The reunion was nice and very well attended. Only one of Riley's kids (Michael and his family) ever shows up and Gary usually does but this year, there was a conflict with the reunion date and his job. It was supposed to be Jazz upgrade day that day so that's why they were coming on Thursday night instead. Both Riley and Gary missed out on the fishing. Hopefully next year! I took my camera with me but really didn't take any pictures to speak of.


We had thunder and lightening here last night. Started around 10:00 and was quite the show. Chipper loved it. We stood in the dark of the house and watched it over the pool. It lit the yard up and was quite the show.


My thought of gratitude today is for spell check. I almost posted without checking and it caught a couple of errors. One of my biggest pet peeves is spelling/grammar errors where spell check is available and only takes mere seconds to run. Sometime I get lazy and don't do it and I think it makes me look exactly that which then is apparent to everyone that may read what I wrote. So....thank you spell/grammar check for saving me from looking really dumb!