Exciting trip...not!

So I have so many things to put on my blog, I am not sure where to start. In the next few days I will hopefully get everything up and post all the pictures too. The most exciting is I am an aunt finally! Connor James is the cutest little boy ever and I will add pictures in my next post.

Last weekend I flew to Idaho to help my mom go through my grandparents things and clean the house before it was sold. I already knew that it would be hard enough seeing the house empty and finally saying goodbye to the house and all the many memories. The trip started out on the wrong foot from the beginning at the airport and I should have just gone home instead ;)

James took me to the airport a little early because he had an appointment and couldn't take me later. I was ok with it and thought I would just eat lunch at the airport instead of at work. When I got to the airport, I saw that my flight was delayed by an hour...and it just kept getting later. I had a connecting flight in Salt Lake City and knew I wouldn't make it. They ended up changing my flight to connect through Reno instead. I had a long wait at the airport, but I was just happy to make it to Boise. Tom and Shanna picked me up and we went out to dinner at a great restaurant that night.

I tend to forgot that it is winter in other places....I have the air conditioner on in the car in Arizona :) So I was freezing cold in Idaho. Going through grandma's house was really hard, but we had so much to do in such a short time, that it made it easier to sale, divide, and throw away my grandma's things. I slept in the RV with Marlene and had a scary experience that everyone laughed at me about the next morning...but it scared me pretty good. Turns out it was just the garbage can banging against the RV and not people breaking in to the house to steal everything :)

Sounds like a lot happened? There is more...

We were late driving home because we just didn't have everything cleaned yet and sorted. Monday afternoon we left Idaho and drove to Susie's for dinner. We wanted to get as far down the road as possible that night so we left instead of staying the night. We were about 40 minuets away and ran into a snow storm. We pulled off at the nearest exit and slept in the RV until it stopped snowing. We were back on the road Tuesday morning and got another 20 miles down the road and the RV broke down. We were stranded for 6 hours waiting for a tow truck to tow us to the next town....where we waited for another 3 hours while it was being fixed. We finally made it to Mesquite, NV late Tuesday. By this time I had not showered in 2 days because of traveling. The hotel wasn't great, but there was a shower and a bed and we were happy. We finally made it home Wednesday. Jackie and James met us at my parents house with dinner....and Connor :) We are all happy to be home.

Things were crazy...but I have great memorize of this trip that I am sure we will laugh about later....I just don't want to do it again ;) I was glad that I was able to see the house one more time.

Towing the RV

Parked on the side of the road