Heading Out West

This morning we headed out dark and early to start our trip. When we walked outside @ 5am it was still dark and already 80 degrees and the humidity was awful. It was going to be a scorcher of a day and we were leaving it. YAY!!!
Our goal was to get past Cheyenne and avoid the Rodeo crowd, and we did it. We made it a short 4 hours from Salt Lake.


Simeon got a kick out this cannon!


When Corrine was less then a year old and Simeon around 3 years old we drove out west. On our way we stopped at this Outpost for a break and took a picture of baby Corrine in her pj's on this horse. Rebecca is older then Corrine was, but it's the same horse and she's wearing her pj's just like Corrine was 6 years ago.


We bought our van 8 years ago with 13,000 miles on it. Today by Big Springs Nebraska we hit the 100,000 mile mark. I've hear this is the magic mile marker for transmission problems-so we've been doing lots of praying our van makes it home intact!


In Wyoming we saw LOTS of...

Trains


Oil Drillers


Wind Turbines


Along with our 1st viewing of mountains. Ammon was thrilled to see mountains and kept asking if these were the biggest we'd see, and every hill we went down he'd put his arms up like he was on a roller coaster and squeal with delight! We kept telling him to wait that we'd go up and down BIGGER mountains in a few days.



One of our stops was at the Abraham Lincoln Monument. I love how you come up the hill and round the corner and there on your right is the giant Abraham Lincoln Monument. We had a good time reading about the history of the monument and stretching our legs.


We ended the day with kids tired of being in the van, but ready to get going to finish the drive in the morning.