Road Trip to Utah

Chris had his last final on Thursday, December 17th, the day of a crazy storm. We had already missed church prior this week because of the slick roads and hadn't gone anywhere in a few days...anyway Chris needed to get to class to take his last final....a storm had blown in that night dumping a lot of snow, which meant no one would be driving and the buses would be having a tough time. He ventured out early and no buses were running at his regular stop so he walked a good mile or so down the big hill to where he could get on a bus and thought it would be smooth sailing....little did he know this was only the beginning of a cold long journey. As the bus tried to go up a ramp to get on the WS bridge, they got stuck for a good while and when they finally got going, they made it downtown, still a few miles from Chris' school at the top of the hill.....a steep hill. So obviously the buses were not going to be running to his school so he had to walk uphill to school in the freezing cold snowy weather and made it just in time for his test....whoooo!!!

Now the sad part is not over yet...he finished the test and headed for his trek back home....so down the hill he went in the snowy cold weather and caught a bus to go back to West Seattle, but they were not running his normal route, they had to take a route that was about below our neighborhood and he would have to walk from as close as he could get. So he got off his bus and headed up the back way to our house up a long hill and finally made it home. When he got there I was ready with some hot cocoa for my hardworking dedicated husband. I felt so bad, I wish I could have went and got him, but there was no way to get out of our neighborhood. Anyway, he made it home and was so ready for vacation. Now the last sad little part to this story is his shoe had ripped from the heel and it was flopping on his foot so he had to take his foot out and put it back in some weird way and walk with his foot half out of the back of his shoe so that it wouldn't fall completely apart....poor guy.

The moral of this story is stay dedicated and work hard and make it to that test so you can have a vacation......then it will pay off when you get the A that he got in that test!!!



So we finished packing ventured out the next day in the crazy weather to go on our Christmas vacation. We were able to make it out of our neighborhood but had to put chains on but luckily we made it over Snoqualmie pass without having to put the chains back on. It was a long trip to Boise, but we made it.

We stayed in this hotel and the kids were so glad to get out of the car, here they are going crazy!