Our Big Road Trip 2013

Here is our trip in a nutshell….a very big nut…3386 plus miles.  We wish we had taken pictures of each stop, but we didn’t.  

Day #1 Took Sean to dinner in Cedar City.  Stayed in Beaver…

Day #2 Drove through towns dad has always wanted to see :Pintura (maybe 5 houses)  Holden,Kanosh and Meadow (not necessarily in that order 

We drove through the Mt. Nebo loop. 

Scenes from the Loop

Visited with Uncle Gary. ( Jean had just gotten back from her second hospital stay and was sleeping.) Got to Mike’s in time to celebrate Carver’s 20^th birthday.  Met Sean’s
 friend -girl Maren and really enjoyed her.  Drove to Heber.

Day #3 Parker’s farewell.  He gave an excellent talk.  We visited, went for a walk with the dogs

                             

Parker Trying to get Grandpa to pose GQ

Day #4 Visited Dixie in Afton Wyoming and spent the night at her cabin on Todd’s ranch.

                                       

Lynn and Cousin Dixie

                                       
                                                   

Flowers on Todds Ranch

                                 
                                         

Dixie's Cabin on Todd's Ranch where we stayed

Day #5 Bade Dixie farewell.  Met Ezra in Pocatello and took Brie and Steven to lunch.  

Took Kyle and Jeanette for ice cream in Rexburg.  Spent the night in Butte Montana.  What a surprise Butte was!

Day #6 Spent half a day touring Butte.  It was a major copper/silver mining community, has a huge open pit mine, had a major disaster in the early  1900’s.  Lots of old buildings, like a semi-ghost town largely occupied.  At one time Butte was larger than New York City.  Full of immigrants.  The disaster killed men from many countries.  Their flags are embedded in the memorial to the disaster.

                

 Mine Disaster Memorial Butte...some of the flags of miners shown

Drove to Glacier National Park, spent the night with an awesome view of Lake McDonald in Apgar.

 These photos of Lake McDonald were all within a 24 hour period  

                         
                                     

Day #7.  Drove to Avalanche and took an .8 mile walk through the woods to a beautiful waterfall.  You can even hear it with us :)

From the park we headed towards Grants Pass and spent the night in Kennewick Washington.

Day #8 Drove to Grants Pass to spend the night with the McCulloughs.  Tom talked us into staying another day.  Good idea!  We were road weary. 

Day #9  Visited with McCulloughs more and took them to dinner at a beautiful restaurant on the Rogue River in Grants Pass, the Taprock.

               

 McCullough's living room showing Southwest style of their home

                                                  

 Tom, Barbara, Dix and Lynn

Day #10 Bade farewell to the McCulloughs and tried to go to church.  We were misinformed of the time in Grants Pass, so headed to Central Point (Medford)  which was farther than we realized.  We got about 10 minutes of the spirit, walked around the temple, and headed out.

We visited with one of dad’s college roommates and wife, Fred Lourence in Red Bluff..  (He is a big fan of the Other Side of Heaven)  Then we drove to Roseville CA and took Dad’s cousin Pat and her fiancé Bob to dinner.  Pat’s most recent husband died about 3 years ago and she and Bob found each other through friends…They will be married in a couple of weeks. We stayed in Roseville, road weary again. 

Day #11 Headed to Half Moon Bay,, slowly…Our Google app had been working awesomely, but in the middle of San Francisco she stopped talking to us.  Not good!  Picked Josh up at school, spent the afternoon/evening enjoying the family and sharing family night.  We 4 adults went for a walk out to where we could see Mavricks.  It was a beautiful day in Half Moon Bay.

Half Moon Bay from our walk

Mavricks beyond the rocks to the right

Dad at the entrance to Randy's house

Almost time for school

                                          Jonesy the soccer king

Day #12..Drove home….stopped at Rose Hills Cemetery to follow up on the situation with dad and mom’s headstones.  They are nicely restored. 

Suffered thru about 200 miles of heavy traffic, including highway 78 in San Marcos…

Happy to be home, happy to have seen so many family and friends.

Davis Family Reunion 2011

Hey peeps, Kris here. I'm not very tech savvy so this took me FOREVER, but I made a little video from all the pictures Vanessa took during the reunion. Props to Vanessa for capturing so many moments on her fancy new camera! Enjoy.

Dad got Bored

The photos are out of order, but I am not going to try to get it right....We now have a great patio/deck cover behind the house, middle photo shows it complete. Love it when he gets bored!

Card to Share....

On the inside it says "It's your birthday, don't do anything stupid!"

Liam and Rebecca

Rachel, Ryan and Liam came to visit on December 1st, as did Vanessa and Rebecca. Pictures don't quite capture the fun it was watching them...Liam is into mimicking....Rebecca picked up on that and improvised activities for him to copy...they were adorable! (Liam and Rebecca...not Rachel and Ryan!) Remember, Rebecca and Rachel are the cousins!