Back Home and ready to bake!

So we’re home, safe and sound and we did indeed make it to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. The trip was fun and went really smoothly. The only mishap occured on the first night's hotel stay. I was stuck sharing a king sized bed with my very squirmy son. As far as mishaps go, that’s pretty good one to have to endure. :-)

While the trip was fun, it was not really the relaxing experience I had envisioned. Part of that was because I shifted into “super mom mode” from the moment we left. Since I was the only adult on the trip, I had this heightened sense of awareness and found it hard to relax at the end of the night, even though I was always exhausted. It’s funny how sitting still behind the wheel for 4-6 hours every day will do that. So due to my “I’m sick of driving” syndrome and my son’s admission that he was “kind of getting bored being in the car so much”, we ended up cutting the trip short and drove from San Diego to Sacramento (stayed in a great hotel there too called “Le Rivage”) and then headed straight for home. Thirteen hours later we arrived in Seattle, safe and sound.

It was a good trip all in all and we saw a lot of things! In the nine days we were on the road, we stopped in Boise (where I had about 10 miles left before I ran out of gas. Yikes!), Salt Lake City (went to a little theme park there called Lagoon which was really fun), Bryce Canyon (absolutely gorgeous), the North Rim of the Grand Canyon (some of the most beautiful meadows I’ve ever seen just outside the park and of course the Canyon was breathtaking!), Las Vegas (saw Steve Wyrick perform a magic show that was pretty clever), Hoover Dam (It was 114F there!), Palm Springs (stayed at the sweetest hotel EVER called, “The Mojave” – highly recommend it!), then to LA (went to Knott’s Berry Farm and to Medieval Times ), San Clemente (great beaches), and San Diego. Wow… that’s a lot in such a short time! It’s no wonder we were both so tried. Here's a short little movie for you to watch...

Once we got home I spent the next day doing laundry and sitting on the couch staring at the wall and the television. Last night was the first night I’ve actually felt back to normal. I’m just so glad that I took two full weeks off because I most certainly needed a vacation from my vacation!

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and sweet suggestions! I'm feeling well rested and have lots of good stuff coming...stay tuned!