The pictures are out of order but it captures the fun that we had on 12 days going back to Utah and Wyoming to see family and attend reunions and go to ballroom dance camp and pick up Brecon and Connor from their cowboy internship at grandma and grandpa Hoopes‘s house. It was such a great trip but at the end we were all ready to come home… more on that adventure later!
Day 1-2 flew in on a redeye flight leaving at two in the morning and making it into Salt Lake around 9 o’clock in the morning after almost missing our connection in Seattle. We were all so exhausted I crashed at my grandmas house and basically slept the whole day! Thankfully so did my travel buddies Brielle and cannon.
Day 2-4 Wednesday- Friday We went down to Thanksgiving point and spent the afternoon catching up with my friend Marianne and her girls. Jenn Aiton also came over with Ainsley and a cousin and we played at the children’s Museum and had early dinner at cubbies - a local burger joint- mmmm- tasty. We also went to the Provo rec center to find the ballroom dance kids that were also spending the day there and we got to see some of our friends- it is an awesome swimming facility- everyone had a blast!
Day 4-7 Friday- Tuesday Drive to Star Valley to spend the weekend at my mom and dad‘s house. Brecon and Connor had already been up for 2 1/2 weeks helping grandpa cowboy, herd cattle, fix fence, pick rocks, and live the Star Valley summer life picking huckleberries and going on side-by-side rides!! Quite a fun time (I’ll post the pictures we got from their adventures separately). I also was in town for my high school class 20 year reunion. It it was fun to see the friends who came to our class picnic. We also went raspberry picking and ate at delicious Burger joint again with the fries, Onion rings, milkshakes, and fry sauce! We hiked to the intermittent spring, went to my aunt and uncle‘s 50th wedding anniversary dinner, the fair parade and lots of candy, and a singing competition called the vocalist.
Day 8-9 Tuesday- Wednesday Park city friends retreat. I found out some friends were meeting up in Park City. The hotel was pretty fun with the game room and a swimming pool the kids had a great time well my friends and I laughed and we ordered almost $200 worth of sushi which was not quite enough for everyone -Wednesday morning we went to a hot yoga class followed by the afternoon at the spa and soaking in a hot tub and full body massage. We went out to eat that night and met up with a few more friends that came town. We laughed and giggled—just what I needed.
Day 9-12 Wednesday-Saturday Platt family campout in The Unitas. While we were in Park city I decided to send Cael with the kids in a separate car to go to our camping shopping and to head up to meet grandma and grandpa at the campsite. I was going out to dinner with the friends I didn’t know if I would make it that night but for sure would be there Thursday morning. Everyone was so impressed that I sent my teenager to get all of our camping food and that he made it to the campsite with bags of candy and some food that we needed for the next four days!! So proud 🥲
So I leave dinner with the friends and head up to grab a few things in Evanston before making my way up to the campsite and is it starting to get dark and I am starting to get worried. I don’t know where exactly the campsite was they wrote directions and left them on the counter I grabbed a few pillows and pillowcases and I decided to just give it a shot if I got lost I would turn around and go back and stay at the house in Evanston. Well just 40 minutes into the forest and I was able to find where my children were at the right campsite.
Day 12 Saturday We packed up camp after a great time with our cousins and aunties and uncles because our flight is leaving Saturday night at 8 o’clock. Hot shower helped us all feel so much better and we were all looking forward to getting home to our own beds that night—however— after arriving at the airport there was a delay which would guarantee that we would miss our connection flight from Seattle to Fairbanks and so we can either stay in Salt Lake and fly out the next morning or fly to Seattle and find a hotel there around midnight. I decided to take the hotel coupon voucher and we stayed Saturday night with the hopes of getting on our flight the next day around 2 o’clock. I decided to be a fun mom and we went to a real movie theater popcorn and two drinks and pizza and one hundred dollars later we watched “free guy”. We were excited about the breakfast in the morning and the hotel swimming pool- Cannon was especially excited to swim. While we had eaten breakfast we went back up the room to get changed and everyone was just kind of messing around Cannon had his swimming suit on and I was distracted looking at the tickets and trying to organize a few things and Cannon kind of made this weird sound I had heard like with the door close and then he comes running over to me and he’s like “ahh blood” he had smashed his thumb between the heavy hotel door causing the nailbed to completely pinch and rise up and there was cuts on the side and so I was so worried I called my mom and she said we better go to the ER which is not what you wanna do when you’re about to catch a flight but we did and they cleaned things up and put a couple of stitches on each side of his thumb- and he had this big old bandage on his hand- poor guy! He didn’t cry from the injury but he was more upset that he wasn’t going to get to go swimming!
so we get out of the ER in time to grab some food and meet my mom with all the other kids at the airport our flight is supposed to leave at two so we planned on getting there at 12:30 when we arrive the lady at the front desk tells us that there is something wrong with our airplane and it probably won’t be leaving until four so we decided just hang out at the airport since we checked all of our bags and gone through security and our flight doesn’t leave until 6:30!! It was miserable- but the kids loved all the extra screen time! We made it to Seattle- grabbed some grub abs boarded the plane - however we sat on the tarmac for an hour just waiting!!
I just wanted to get home- and had about had it with airports and delays and just waiting! I think we ended up landing around 1:30 in the morning and got to bed around two! What an adventure - it was so good to be home again!
