Road Trip to Utah

On New Year's Eve and Day we had a family reunion in Salt Lake City, Utah. We left a few days early. It was quite the adventure.

We first started off and drove the first day to Rock Springs, Wyoming and stayed with our cousins over night. that was a fun visit. My kids love them so much. They especially love taking a bubble bath in there huge bath tub!

The next day it was snowing when we left and about an hour from the time we left they closed the high way in both directions. We were first stuck on an exit that was just a little pull off. We layed all our seats down and snuggled all up together with pillows and blankets and watched movies. Then all these cars started going back on the high way so we thought they opened the road back up, so we followed. We turned off on the next exit at a travel center to use the bathrooms and eat. We found out that the roads were not open yet and they were giving out $1500 tickets to whoever drove on them. So luckily we were able go to the travel center though. We were stuck for about 7 hours. They first said the roads were not going to open until 6:00am the next morning, so we thought we were going to have to sleep in the car. They ended up opening at about 7pm, so we arrived at the motel in Salt Lake at about 9:45. Daniel's parents saved us a room. It was a long day but it was kind of fun, too!

The next day we went shopping to get white elephant gifts for our reunion that night. Daniel's sister and her husband hung out with us that day. Her husband hasn't ever been to Salt Lake, so we went to Temple Square and to see the Joseph Smith movie at the Legacy Theater. That was an excellent one if anyone hasn't seen it yet.

I forgot to take pictures so sorry about the novel here!


They next day was New Years Day, we left and went about 45 minutes to Heber, Utah. There they have a huge crater. Here is a description I got off there web site. It is a 55 ft high dome shaped mound surrounding 65 ft deep mineral rich body of water. It was awesome. We stayed in the motel next to it. Daniels mom and dad, his little brothers and sister, and 2 of his other sisters and there husbands all came. Daniel went Scuba Diving in the crater and the rest of us went snorkeling in it. Daniel's sister in 8 months pregnant so she didn't go and she watched our kids for us. The water in the crater was 91 degrees. It was really cool. They have discovered lot of stuff at the bottom of it. We took our kids swimming in the other pool and they had lots of fun doing that. I didn't get a picture of the crater but I got this one off there web site. It is a picture from inside it.