The House Portion of the Trip is Complete

Today was a very bittersweet day! This morning I had to hug my favorite Kelley's goodbye! Today is also the day that all the DeKelSki's split up and go our own way. We had so much fun. We played cards, fed 12 children more food than I even want to remember, we laughed, we cried and we built memories that we will never forget with our family.

The house was in an ideal setting and I am so thankful that for the second time we found a great house for a great price and it was not misrepresented to us in any way. The kids were great, although, it was very obvious to Jason and I that our "little girls" are definitely closer to their way out than they are to being little! Jason really freaked me out when he pointed out that Rachael only had five summer vacations left until college! Aggghhhh! So thankful for the time she wasn't hiding from us in the basement with her girlfriends :-)

The sweet part of today was all the laughter and fun we had traveling through some of our favorite movies. For those of you that know Jason and I really well, you can attest to the fact that our entire family, even the kids, talk in movie lines. Napoleon Dynamite is one of our favorites. So today, we toured all the major haunts from the film in Preston, Idaho. We even got to go in the high school, even though they thought we were there to register Rachael at first :-) Again, freak me out! We laughed so hard as we recalled all the funny scenes as we toured the town.

We stopped randomly in Logan, Utah at a Chic-Fil-A. We were so excited to find a place with sweet tea, we could barely stand it. It was really funny, when the manager that had taken our order asked if we were traveling and where we were from. Turns out, he grew up in Katy, TX and worked for 9 years with many of Jason's students at the Mason Road location. He and his wife moved to Utah in May when they became proud owners of the Chic-Fil-A location where we ate today. When I asked, what made him ask where we were from, he told us that anytime somebody orders sweet tea as confidently as we did, he knows they are traveling from somewhere in the south! Amen, brother!

We then headed to Salt Lake City, Utah. It is pretty, all nestled in the side of the mountain. We went to Tabernacle Square, the State Capital, the Salt Lake and our favorite spot was East Salt Lake City High School where High School Musical was filmed. We were just excited to take pictures in the front of the school but then a janitor came out, invited us in and gave us the tour and then left us to roam the school and get as many pictures as we wanted. It was really fun. The funniest part is the fact that Sharpay's locker is still painted pink :-) Those made for some cute pictures.

We were able to come back to the hotel pretty early, have a great pizza party in our room, veg out and watch some tv and now the kids are heading to bed. Tomorrow is a long day to head into Denver. We're excited to see some snow up in the Rockies before heading back to the heat wave of the century!

Thanks for sharing our trip with us. Can't believe that we're almost done! Just four more days!