Driving to Utah

Well, we made it to Utah in record time (of course Jared was driving!) and we are enjoying it lots! Our trip was fun, stressful and hot! Of course we would choose the hottest day of the month to drive in a car in which the air conditioning was broken from our previous encounter with a deer hitting our front end on our move to South Dakota. So....needless to say we were sweaty, sticky and cranky for some of the trip, but it ended up being not so bad. We had been planning on leaving after Jared got off of work on Thursday (about 5:30 pm) but because of other circumstances we ended up leaving at 10:30 am instead. It was a good thing that we were headed to Utah already, because we were able to be there for a funeral that was completely unexpected, but that's for another post.

We started out with a little trip to see Jared's work because I had never seen more than driving over the bridge. So it was really neat to at least see the outside. We didn't go on a tour due to time but it was fun to see the place and the HUGE fish that were swimming around. Jared says that some of them are paddle fish that are like 4-6 feet long! Craziness. Cache just liked to watch the water swirl around. :)

Getting started. You can tell that he's a little cranky lol

The massive amounts of water going over the spillway at the dam. Enough to erode away concrete...

Entry to Jared's work

The old Ft. Randall Chapel on the old Ft. Randall property

Part of the dam

Then we were off! Jared wanted to stop by the Hornady factory that's in Grand Island, NE so we took a break there. It was actually really welcome because they had air conditioning and it was just nice to get out of the HEAT! You walk in and the walls are COVERED with suffed animals so Cache had a fun time playing with the different things to look at. Cache and I couldn't go in to the tour because he would have had to wear eye and ear protection. So he just stayed and flirted with the receptionists and got complements from everyone on his cuteness.


Cache getting eaten by a bear! :)



Little baby birds waiting for mom and some grub! They were so cute!

I took some random pictures along the way of things that were interesting, and here they are.

At one point it was actually 101...

Some kind of crazy overpass that was pretty neat

Just thought this was cool

 There was a time when we stopped at a rest stop and we watered down Cache to keep him cool. There were sprinklers that we tried to let him run around in, but he wasn't in the mood.

After this rest stop, I took over driving. I was trying to be nice and give Jared a break, but about a half hour later we somehow found out we were in Colorado on highway 76 instead of 80. Oops. This also meant that we were headed right for a sever thunderstorm with 1 inch hail. Awesome. Luckily it only took about 5 minutes and it was over...And then we found our way to highway 80 and we were back on track. Jared took over and then drove the rest of the way. But we made it and all was well. And we are ready for other adventures. :)

Sun going down...6 more hours to go...