Grand Canyon detour

 We decided to take Dad to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon-only 2 hours away, right? So we hopped in the car with water bottles and movies and headed off. We got to Fredonia and stopped at a gas station to pee and buy junk food (ever notice how your need to pee and eat crap increases while traveling, or is it just me?). Rod got chatting to the cashier (I know, shocking right? Rod is just so shy :) who informed us that the North Rim shuts down until the snow melts. So what did we do? We just kept on driving to the South Rim. A million hours later we got there!
Dad was blown away driving through vast areas of land with NOTHING on it, and then all of a sudden there would be a house (shack) in the middle of nowhere. I was just blown away that anyone can reside so far away from Costco and Target...
The Grand Canyon was AWESOME, of course. We got to walk around in 75 degree weather and have a snowball fight with the snow that was still laying around. So fun :) Rod managed to get a huge pile of snow down my back. Not cool when you wear all the layers we Mormons wear. I will, of course, have my revenge :)
That night we stayed in a hotel (but Mom, what are we going to wear
to bed? We didn't even bring pajamas!!) Ellie was horrified that

she had to sleep in shirt and underwear. She was also horrified at having to eat at a deli (but what's a deli? Isn't there a Subway here?) in the middle of the res...Yes, 'tis a hard life Oliver...

 Dad and his girls

The fam :)

The bad thing about going to the Grand Canyon is that you have to drive all the freakin' way home. It took FOREVER!! Lucky for me I have a sweetheart who was willing to drive while I sat in the back and watched movies with the girls :) It was a swell time :)

Nascar Baby!!!

 Dad came to visit for 2 weeks. He went home today. Lameoh.... :( But we had a lot of fun with him and got to go to Nascar!!!! Yeah baby! It was a blast!! There were a bazillion people there and more than a few Wallmartians. We went supplied with headphones (as modeled by Mia above) which I didn't think we would need. That was until the cars started whipping around at 180 mph. Freakin' crazy. And totally LOUD!!! The best parts (of course) were when drivers wiped out :) We even got to see a car catch fire. I mean, I wouldn't want anyone to get REALLY hurt. Just lil' bit...

 Ellie with her Dadcu :)

Photo of the bazillion people. People are SERIOUSLY into this stuff. Tried to take some photos of the cars but they were too speedy gonzales for me.