We drove down Wednesday afternoon, nine hours in the car with the wife (who worked a shift the night before and was running on less than four hours of sleep) and a 21 month old daughter who was never one to sleep in a car - you would have thought it would have been a nightmare of a drive. But Millie got some sleep on the way down, and although Ellery didn't fall asleep until we left Flagstaff (with two hours left in the drive) she was really pretty good... thank goodness for video ipods and episodes of Spongebob!!!
We stayed with my sis and bro-in-law Tevia and Bret Wall (and their boys) which was great for several reasons. First of all, it's good to see them, our visits are too few and far between. Second, Ellery LOVES to play with Enok (Bret n Tev's youngest boy), and I think Enok really enjoys having someone else around that is as energetic as he is!
On Friday night we went to Brian and Jo Lynne Hutchinson's (my adopted 2nd parents) for dinner. It was a great meal that helped us with our final efforts to load up on carbs. Jo Lynne made her world famous (or it should be at least, since it's the best I've ever encountered in all my travels and explorations) flan. Basically pure carbs (sugars)! I believed it helped out in my marathon performance, which is covered in part three of this blog sequence.
The entire trip was great!!!
We spent time playing with the kids in the nearby park,drew pictures with sidewalk chalk in the driveway, played with the boys and their toys, and went to the Sonora Desert Museum on our way to the beautiful booming metropolis of Patagonia to visit Granny B.
And since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll let these pics do the rest of my talking:
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