After watching the weather reports we decided to leave on Sunday December 21st to make the long drive to Utah. The morning started with a little excitement when we saw a semi on fire on the side of the road. The entire trailer was engulfed in flames and only the frame was left. Other than that the drive was pretty average. We made it to Sandy by about 5:30 PM. It was great to be able to enjoy Sunday dinner with Eric's parents. On Monday we decided to try and go shopping. The weather was pretty snowy but there were some really good deals at Cabela's for Eric. The store is about 30 minutes south and the farther we went the worse the weather got. At one point we got stuck and I, Rebecca (Eric's sister) and Eric all had to push the car to get it up the hill. Once we made it to Cabela's all of the stuff Eric wanted was gone. It was still fun to go. Later that evening we went up to Temple Square. I found a Deseret Book and had a good time in there. We also went and saw the Joseph Smith movie. While we were in the movie Eric went and did family history. He was able to find a few more names for my family. I had only seen the lights once before and so it was fun to see those. To avoid dealing with traffic we took Trax up to Salt Lake.
On Tuesday we went to the Jordan River Temple with Eric's parents and Grandma Coffman. We were hoping to do baptisms for family names but we can only do them in our own temple district since we did it on the new Family Search program. That evening we went and visited Eric's great Grandma Christensen. She is 98 years old and still very lively. It was fun to hear some fun stories.
This morning we went to Kneaders for breakfast and are going to go sledding with Eric's nephew Max this afternoon.
It has been a great trip and we are only half way through.
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