Vacation Post 2

Well....after my last post, I spent a wonderful evening in Denver with my aunt. We talked about a lot of things. We talked about family, death, dreams, a whole bunch of things. I wish I could have stayed in Denver for one more day. The next day - I think it was Tuesday when I left and made my way to Utah. I drove up through Cheyenne, WY and and took I-80 there. I am not a fan of driving through Wyoming. Lots of miles between stops and some freaky stops at that. However I did stop at the Lincoln Monument near Larmie. It was really cool to see. It's the highest point from east to west. I saw many signs with the Continental Divide Altitude...I can't remember the highest that I saw there though....7460 or something.

After quite a few annoying detours that day, I made it to Grammy's about an hour north of Salt Lake. I was pretty tired that evening. On Wednesday my grandma and I looked through a lot of old pictures and she kind of filled me on that side of the family (I really don't know anyone on that side of the family), it was nice. We stopped in Brigham City and had lunch a nice little Mexican place with grandma, and her sister Mary. On Thursday grandma and I went up through Idaho and made way to Nevada to do some gambling. It was the worst gambling I'm ever done. Don't ask me about it. :) Regardless it was fun. I got a good laugh out of my poor little grandma's worries. In about 4 hours - I had 1 drink and 2 beers. We got back to the hotel room and I said I was going to take a dip in the pool. She responded with "Oh honey you can't go swimming, you'll drown!" :) I went swimming. It was awesome. Didn't drown. It was a nice trip to and from Nevada with her. We got back on Friday. Friday afternoon, we spent looking through family history. This may not sound like vacation to some, but...considering I don't know much about that side...it was very nice to learn a lot of this stuff, and wouldn't mind learning some more.

Saturday morning I hit the road again, this time to come back the other direction toward Milwaukee. I made it pretty far that day - got to Grand Island, NE. And that's where I'll stop this post for now and will continue...when I return home. :)