Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Vacation!

We just got back from a family reunion in Midway, Utah. I'm happy to report that we had an awesome time with all the cousins, and that it was great being up in the Utah mountains.

This is Trish enjoying the early morning. We set up a tent under a tree, and slept great every night!

I think there were about 50 of us there for the main event, and I'm pretty sure we all got along great. Lots of kids running around having fun, lots of food, and lots of sitting around playing games and visiting.

Of course we rode the Heber Valley Railroad, which was a lot of fun. We all piled on, with engineer hats, and rode out to Soldier Hollow.

Along the way, robbers showed up to rob the train and take hostages (people who had paid to go on a wagon ride). Unfortunately, no one told the engineer or conductor that the train was supposed to be "robbed" on this particular trip! To make things more interesting, the people who were to go on the ride were never given the special green wristbands, so didn't say anything when the robbers asked for those with wristbands to get off. It all got sorted out in the end, but sure made for an interesting ride!

Tomorrow (hopefully), I will talk about the main event of the weekend, which was a recognition of the military heritage in our family. This was conducted on top of Memorial Hill, in Midway, with our parents as speakers.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Road Trip!

We're going to San Antonio to visit some friends this weekend, and I have to admit that I'm really looking forward to getting out of town for a couple of days.

Since the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo is going on this week, I would normally be spending my evenings helping the Boy Scout troop with concessions. I've been to almost every rodeo show for the last 14 years, and have never seen it yet! It's a good fund-raiser for the troop though, and I enjoy helping out.

Anyway, instead of that, we are going to spend a relaxing weekend visiting some good friends. I may even make it to a big model railroad show that will be in town this weekend!

I'll let you know how it all works out.