Wow- St. Geezy was SO much fun!!! It was also absolutely INSANE from start to finish- I will break it down for you- hopefully you get a laugh or two out of it, because I certainly did.
I began with Jessica and I blazing forward with no legitimate plan but to have a good time. I knew a couple of hiking spots, but for the most part, we were just cruising along without any course of action. We ended up hiking the D, scaling a plateau, and playing the flute at the top (bucket list item COMPLETE!!!) as well as hanging out at my aunt's pool. It was a fabulous trip, and we loved it!
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Grandpa's on the Left, next to him is one of his
sisters (I always forget her name). The final one
is his other sister, my beloved Aunt Alice Holland
(Yes... Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's Wonderful mother
if you were wondering :) ) My family is awesome :) |
On our way back, I stopped in at my sweet Grandpappy's house. You will never meet a sweeter man EVER. He is getting old and starting to lose his ability to get around, so it's not very often that I get to see him. At first, he didn't recognize me, but as we got going, he recognized that it was me and was SO happy!!! His smile is priceless :) He told me and Jessica stories about his time in the Navy and showed us an entire album of pictures and papers from his time of service. However, the best part of the entire thing was hearing a very, very sweet story about my Grandmother and how he KNEW she was the one, even before he met her. The story and it's details are some that I had never heard before in all my storytimes with Grandpa, and I can understand why; Grandpa keeps to himself for the most part, but his love for my grandmother cannot be hidden when he talks about her. This particular story is not readily told to just anyone; grandpa felt impressed to tell me for some reason, and it was absolutely remarkable- opened my eyes entirely. But one thing that I especially learned from that? That kind of love is so powerful, that once realized, it overcomes anything and everything. It doesn't matter what obstacles are in the way; it doesn't matter who doubts you; it doesn't matter the "times" you are faced with. All that matters is that you #1- Believe you can love. #2- Recognize that love and #3- Maintain that love. We left Grandpa's house with some fresh oranges, a cupcake, and a warm heart :)
Next off, we were driving back. We only had a little money left, so we started to ration it out carefully. We ate animal crackers and granola bars for two days to get by while we were in St. George (we brought cash only and didn't quite think of everything :S), and now we realized that we may not make it back on the gas we had!!! Dun dun DUN!!!
We got to Beaver and thought... huh... we're on empty... we've got over 100 miles to go still... we're broke...
That's when we started counting our pennies... literally!
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| Exactly $3.85... one gallon of gas... |
At this point, we were LITERALLY scrounging for any change we could find in my car. We managed to find enough to keep going for a bit. But then we hit empty again and were perplexed as to what we should do. We thought... hey... we could coast and see how far we could coast- there are a lot of hills! Let's see how far my baby can go!!!!!!
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| Empty Tank.... |
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| And this is our location... |
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Yah... we're in trouble... hahaha!!!
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At least we met some fun friends on the way!!!
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| Apparently he's my future husband. Delish. Haha! |
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| Big dude in a Yellow Bug... Manly... |
Well... here we were at the edge of defeat despite out laughs along the way, and what has to happen? A police officer pulls us over. After making me sit there for a million years and giving me a WHOPPING ticket, he directed me to the closest gas station and then told me, "Let me help you get to the turn around." Not understanding what he meant by that (thinking he wanted to simply follow me to it to ensure I made it alright), I proceeded. He pulled me over again, and for not letting him lead me (although I was CLEARLY fine without his help), he yelled at me for ten minutes about how terrible a driver/person I was. I wanted to punch him in the kisser... but I refrained and resigned to say nothing more than, "Yes sir," as he rudely abused his power at my window... idiota... Oh well... it's only food money for the next month right? And to explain his awful behavior to myself, we assumed the man's daughter was just diagnosed with stage four cancer and his trusty Dalmation had died an hour previous. That made us forgive him a little bit. :P
Finally, we made it home, and I was surprised with a lovely date with Colby! He picked me up, we went to Macey's and got some pasta, made and ate it, then watched "Premonition!" It was a blast :)
So overall, our trip was INSANE!!! It was a little costlier than I had hoped thanks to Deputy Jerkface, but overall, I'm glad we got to go!!!! Nothing like a trip with your bestie and a fun date to start the summer off right :)
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