We woke up to Grandma coming in from doing her laundry. Great news! All of the mud came out! Even the mud on her sneakers! I'm sure that the Holiday Inn washer has seen better days, but her clothing is clean. We all showered up, enjoyed the continental breakfast at the hotel and got on the road. Nona was excited to see that we were in the same city as the Museum of Idaho, which was showing the "Wolf to Woof" Exhibit. We saw signs for it most of the day...

We got up, broke camp and headed to the SLC airport to pick up Grandma at 10:30. As soon as she got in the car we hit the road to ID. Our goal was to go to City of Rocks and then overnight at Craters of the Moon, ID. According to our GPS, City of Rocks was 180 miles away. 3 hours give or take. We had no trouble with the car or the trailer, but we decided to name it The Hole Day. We stopped for lunch 14 miles south of the ID border and had a down-home lunch at th...

After a fantastic night sleep in a Hampton Inn, we had a nice continental breakfast and headed to the SLC airport. We were all sad to see big Jimmy leave, but happy that he's going home to keep all of our pets company. After dropping him off, we checked in to the Salt Lake City KOA. We got everything all set up and looking good for Grandma's arrival...we wanted to make sure she likes it right from the beginning. Right after we finished set up, the phone rings, a...

I was awake VERY early since I pretty much had not slept anyway. We got up and packed and out of the campsite as soon as possible. Translation = 9:10 a.m. We headed across the street to an RV repair shop. I had stopped in there the night before on the way to buy slingshots and spoke to a VERY old man who assured me they could work on our trailer in the morning. I forgot to mention that we developed a new problem with the trailer yesterday. J The emergency bre...

Well, our grand plan of waking up early and hitting the road before the main road between Zion and Bryce closed "fail"ed (Jimmy Jr's favorite word this summer.) I woke up in time to get us out the door, but read online that we MUST DO the shuttle bus tour of Zion. Since we will likely never be back here again, I decided we MUST DO it. We had a great breakfast and got on (and off and on and off) the shuttle. Round trip it was about an hour, and defin...