Well, my mental images of effortless blogposts from Utah has not turned out to be a reality, so this may turn out to be a one time event. I picked Brendan up from school yesterday and started "the great migration westward. We made it to Toronto with no hiccups and had enough extra time before picking up my Mom and Dad at Terminal 3 that we rode the new monorail train at Toronto airport a few times. Their dog Dougald was thrilled to be reunited with Mom and Dad and we went out for a delicious dinner out and stayed up long past a sensible time catching up about their 5 week adventure in Europe. Brendan's journal entry for Day 1 - Today hour I ate a bun.
We were up at an unspeakable hour this morning to catch our flight to Las Vegas. New kiosks made the whole security check in and customs process all much faster and we were at our gate waiting 2 hours before the flight departed. We got ahead on homework, and played with hot wheels cars until the plane boarded. Once settled in, Brendan asked "how many days are we on this plane?" He really seemed pleasantly surprised when I explained we'd arrive the same day. 4 1/2 hours later we had arrived and were ready for the next part of the adventure to begin.
Bob headed off to his departure gate to fly home to Toronto YYZ before we got through security, but has texted to say that he made it home safely. Rob had all sorts of stories of memorable miles with his Dad on the trip out and it sounds like it was a very worthwhile trip. Harrison was very excited because he was wearing a sweather (he gets easily excited about fairly mundane things). Heidi refused to make eye contact with me for 20 minutes and cried when I tried to touch her.
We cruised the strip from end to end in the truck, just to show it to Brendan and reminisce about our seperate weekends here, and then hit the interstate across the barren desert. An hour later, we stopped for a picnic lunch and hike amongst some of the most spectacular terrain I have ever seen in my life at Valley of Fire State Park. An astounding way to begin a trip that I think will be punctuated almost every day with phenomenol natural sites. I took 148 pictures today, and we didn't even get out of the airport till noon!!
Our campground has an amazing view of the mountains, and we have a very nice corner site with our trailer tucked in between lots of others. After a dinner of microwaved quiche and a cold Bud Light Lime from the fridge while the air conditioning hummed in the background we agreed - this will certainly not be like any other camping adventure we've done before!
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