Spring Break Utah-- First half

 March 10, 2024

Road tripping with the family! We were going to go the San Diego for spring break, but with Grandpa Campbell’s health not doing so well, we changed our plans and headed north instead. We’ve got a week with the fam in Provo now.

March 13, 2024

Utah trip Sunday. We’re staying in Cari and Sharon’s apartment while we’re here instead of the house like normal so we can give them some peace and quiet occasionally. And their bathroom is getting remodeled, so they’re down to one bathroom for now. Ryan had a little fun doing panoramas while we were waiting for everyone to get ready for church.

We went to church with Mark’s ward so the kids could go to 2nd hour with their cousins. Ryan thought about going to both grandma’s and Mark’s ward to pass the sacrament in both wards and help out since they don’t have many young men and always have lots of men passing the sacrament. But it was the day daylight savings time started (their first experience ever springing forward) and when I woke him up that morning he changed his mind and wanted to sleep a little longer, so skipped grandma’s ward.

Grandpa is in a hospital bed in the front room. Mornings are better for him cognitively, but pain comes and goes throughout the day. Rachel pulled out the guitar and played for a while. The cousins came over and Rosie was super excited to see Annie and jumped into her arms, then when Megan walked in she jumped out of her arms into Megan’s. She loves having cousins around she can boss around.

Monday we went to Thanksgiving Point. We did the dinosaur museum first. The picture of Rachel and Annie is in front of the Supersaurus. Ryan and Megan are in front of the stegosaurus.

After the dinosaur museum we went over to the Butterfly museum or whatever it’s called. Everyone liked holding the butterflies.

Lastly we went to the museum of natural curiosity and did the ropes course there. We couldn’t take pictures because we had to leave our phones in the lockers so they didn’t fall out of our pockets onto the people far below. It was scary, but the kids all did it.

March 14, 2024

Here are some additional highlights from Monday and Tuesday. Playing games with cousins, including chess between Ryan and Mark. We went out to Red Robin for dinner with Sharon. Afterwards they had to play on the escalator and got some exercise going the wrong way on the escalators. Next to the escalators is Ryan’s Diamonds, but he didn’t give us any.