Monday, September 30, 2019

Another Weekend, Another Excursion

September Writing Challenge - Prompt #35:

Journey

We enjoy doing little road trips as a family. Sometimes we have great successes. Sometimes we don't. But even when it's complete chaos, and everyone is moody and unreasonable, we still come home with great memories or at least something to laugh about when the scars have healed.

Over the weekend, we did some road trippin'. A few months ago, we reserved some camp spots at Crystal Hot Springs with some friends for the last weekend in September. As the dates got closer, the weather was starting to look a little sketchy. Our friends have trailers, but we just have a tent, so we decided to book a hotel room and spare ourselves from the rain and cold.

We went to Crystal Hot Springs on Friday afternoon and spent a few hours at the pools.

The pools are brown because of the minerals 
from the hot springs. It's trippy, I know. 

We had dinner with our friends, then went back to the pools until well after dark. We finished off our time together with s'mores, and then my family packed up and drove to our hotel in Brigham City.

On Saturday it rained pretty consistently all day. We found that the best thing to do in Northern Utah in the rain is eat. So we started at the Old Grist Mill where we got an assortment of baked goods, but Nicky wanted something savory for breakfast, so we also hit Carl's Jr. Then we drove up to Logan and stopped at Gossner's for cheese curds.

The prices on baked goodies at the Old Grist Mill are incredible.
We got 2 sweet rolls, 4 scones, 2 mint brownies,
& a pumpkin bar for about $10.

We knew we had to do something non-food related while we waited for our bodies to be capable of eating more food, so we went to the mall. We checked out the Halloween store:

These masks are hilarious!


Zoe the chicken

Then we stumbled across a hobby store that left us in absolute shock and awe:


This is not a scene from the back room. This is the
actual store as you walk through it. 

(How does this even exist? I can't even. I used to work at Valley Fair Mall, and our store would have been fined for this).

(I'll never complain about how messy Ross is again).

After we burned a couple of hours at the mall, we went to Taco Maker - the last location in the state of Utah. Scotty loved Taco Maker when he was growing up. He has fond memories of eating there while he was working on his grandpa's farm.

Then I demanded Aggie ice cream.

Because why not?

Please note that someone walked through the Aggie creamery with poop on their shoe. Poor sole. Wah wah!

(Glad it wasn't one of us... but Zoe still managed to step in it and get second-hand poo-ed).

After that we left Logan and drove back to Crystal Hot Springs to see our friends. They were cooped up in their RVs in the rain, so we watched Kyle watch the last ten minutes of Ferris Bueller.

Kyle living his best life.

On VHS.

(He narrated the whole thing).

From there we headed out to Golden Spike. We went there a few years ago, but since then, we have purchased the National Parks passports for our children, so we figured we'd stop and get their passport stamps and cancellations since we didn't get them the first time.

Daisy at Golden Spike. We took this photo to send
to her teacher for her class bulletin board about the counties.

Since Daisy is in 4th grade, we are trying to take advantage of her free National Parks pass and are planning to hit several parks before next August.

It was really cold and rainy at Promontory, but we were able to see one of the trains make the rounds, and our kids loved putting their stamps in their books.

On our way home from Golden Spike, we stopped at Smith and Edwards and bought some useless junk just for the heck of it.

We came home exhausted and still full from lunch, but that didn't stop our kids from begging for food the second we walked in the door.

We made the best of a rainy situation and had a good time on our journey.

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And thus ends the September Writing Challenge.

Unused prompts: knowledge, clean, strength, ta-da!, moment, community, collection, & everyday.

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