Real Vacation-Day 1-Road Trip!!

Our vacation stared at 4 AM on Friday morning. We had already loaded the car the night before (we even put Heidi Anne to bed in the clothing she’d be wearing the next day). We did this in hopes that we would be able to get her out of bed and into her car seat without waking her up to much, thus going back to sleep. Well, she proved us wrong-She stayed up the WHOLE time. She didn’t want to miss a moment of the BIG BIG Adventure.

It was such a fun drive; we went up through Logan Canyon, to Bear Lake, to Star Valley. For nearly 2 ½ hours it was pretty much just us on the roads- we had the canyons and valleys to ourselves as the stars faded, the sun rose. It was so beautiful. I have decided that deer really play “Chicken” or its some sort of initiation processes that involves automobiles. Honestly, there was very little traffic, however, when there was a car or truck coming-Out of nowhere here Gangster Bambi and his crew would dart into the road like they have the right of way. (Why don’t they just cross at the Deer crossing signs??)

**Side Note every small town we drove though had a Subway-some of them didn’t even have a post office-yet there was a Subway. That Jared is a very sneaky man. Starbucks better be careful, just know this, I’m on to you Subway**


After we had driven for a few hours we got to the Teton National Forest. We needed to stretch our legs and get our bearings, so we went to the Main visitors’ center. Heidi Anne had a lot of fun there- so we knew this was going to be a great trip! We drove up through the Tetons just stopping here and there to look at the scenery or to get a pretty flower Heidi Anne saw. Towards the end of the ride Heidi Anne started to get restless. This was the time the DVD player choose to die on us. Nothing was working. Heidi Anne kept begging us to fix it-we told her we can’t. Finally out of desperation-I told her “How about you pray for it to be fixed.” Being the obedient child she is- she started to. Suddenly, the DVD began playing again. From the backseat we heard “Amen-Thank-You”. Oddly enough she didn’t even want to watch a movie anymore. Toddlers. So we made up a little game of “What color will the next car be?” It kept her entertained for the rest of the trip to Yellowstone.