Judy, Ron and I drove to St. George Friday after work. We spent the night at their condo and go up Saturday morning and headed toward San Diego where we were picking up Neal at the airport that afternoon. He had two commencement ceremonies that he had to be to. One for UVU and the other for the U of P. He was asked to read names at the Univ. of Phoenix graduation on Saturday morning. He had Beverly and Jonathan Nevel give him a ride to the airport so he didn’t have to leave a car there.
On our way down, we stopped for gas in Beaver and just had to take a picture of Judy and I sitting in this great big chair out in front of the gas station. We noticed that almost everyone who came in to the station did the same thing. Children and adults alike. I guess the old saying is true, “We are all kids at heart”.
We arrived in St. George about 11:00. We left St. George about 8:00 the next morning and made one stop at Prim and then on to San Diego. When we arrived in San Diego we stopped at a Costco and got some essentials for Mexico. I saw this great big Teddy Bear and thought of Mallory’s project for one of her school activities and had to take a picture and send to her. Annie text back and thought may it was someone hiding in a giant teddy bear trying to smuggle drugs over the border! I assured her it wasn’t. It was the Children’s Miracle Network doing some advertising.
From Costco to the airport to get Neal. We arrived at the airport about 5:30. Neal was waiting on the curb. His plane came in about 4:45 so he didn’t have long to wait. We picked him up and went to an Italian Restaurant for dinner.
Notice the size of that meatball on the top of my spaghetti! Obviously from the size of the servings we took more than half the food with us and ate it Monday evening. The food was out of this world. You will notice the two pictures below. We were just getting ready to leave and I noticed that Judy was having a conversation with the guy across from us and Neal was having a conversation with the people across from us. Before they were done we had been invited to visit and stay with the people that Neal was talking to and found out the guy that Judy was talking to was from Utah!
After dinner we headed into Mexico. When we arrived we were greeted by this huge bug. The picture just doesn’t do him justice. He was a lot bigger than he appears! Andrew probably would have loved it for his bug collection.
The next day was Sunday. It is always fun to go to church down there. Even though we don’t understand one thing they are saying you always feel the spirit of the meeting. It’s actually kind of fun to sing the songs in Spanish! I slaughter their language but have fun trying. The rest of the week was spent golfing, laying out in the sun, eating good food and just enjoying each other’s company. Of course there was lots of bridge!
I had to take a picture of mine and Judy’s golf balls. It is so interesting how many times we will tee off and find our golf balls side by side and exactly hit the same distance. The picture of Neal is of him picking out the hundreds of sticker weeds in his socks from climbing up the side hills and in the rough to find golf balls. He says it is like an Easter Egg hunt on the Mexican golf courses!
It was a wonderful trip full of fun and always laughter. Judy had to be back by Friday evening so our trip was cut a few days short. We left Thursday at 10:30 and thanks to the Sentry passes we were across the border in 5 minutes! So wonderful not to have to wait in those long lines for two and three hours. We shopped on the way back and arrived in St. George about 11:00 p.m. Got up the next morning and arrived in Salt Lake safe and sound. I even went to work for a few hours that afternoon. I got a call from Tucker telling me that he was speaking in Sacrament Meeting on Mother’s Day and wanted some help with his talk. I had already given on talk on his subject so sent him a copy of it. He will do a wonderful job and I wish I could fly down to hear him. Good luck Tucker!
I took a picture of the Payson temple as we drove by on our way into the valley. It is beautiful!
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