Dulaneys Do Utah Day 5: Thursday, July 12, 2012

We kinda took it easy Thursday morning.  We hung around the house and unloaded the ATV's from our adventure the day before.  Then we decided to venture out and go shooting.  On our way we stopped and took in a view of the Great Salt Lake.  We saw a few exciting things along the way.  We saw several explosions at the weapons depot.  That was kinda interesting.

Then we saw "Mr. Smartypants" stuck in the salt water.  We stopped to try to help but Steve didn't have his tow ropes in his truck.  He told us he had been there for 4 hours.  We drove a little down the road to the place where we were shooting and Lisa said we should go back and take him some water.  It was so hot outside.  So I was getting out a couple of water bottles and a bunch of snacks to take to him.  We had a sharpie to write peoples names on their water bottles and Meagan wrote, "Mr. Smartypants" on the ones we were taking to the stuck guy.  We did scratch it out before we gave it to him.  Steve saw me gathering all the food and said, "Honey.  Help him out but don't go overboard.  Your interfering with natural selection." 

It didn't take Josh long to take a big chunk out of the milk carton.

Hear no, see no, speak no

Cheese balls anyone?

Rapid Fire

Aubrey with her bow she bought with her Birthday money

The salt flats

I've been promising Ed I would make him guacamole for about 12 years now.  I finally made good on my promise.  We had chicken quesadillas and homemade guacamole and my mom's homemade salsa for dinner.

Root beer floats

We were watching Brian Regan videos and he talked about ripping the ice cream carton and licking the last bit out.  So Zac couldn't resist.  See the video below.

EVERYONE played a huge game of Farkle.  It is our official family game.  No.  For real.  It is.

Aubrey was not happy with her farkle score.  Meagan tried to cheer her up by smearing a frosting covered graham cracker on her face.

Cracking up to Brian Regan.  He is our official family comedian.  No.  For real.  He is.

Yes he is that funny.  Like I said, see the video below.  You're almost there. 

 (I am a little mad at him for stealing my eye doctor bit though)

It was so late and unfortunately this was the last day of our visit with the Dulaneys.  They were going to wake up at 4am and start their drive back to Missouri.  All the adults went to bed.  I wanted the kids to spend as much time together as they could since they don't get to see each other very often.  They got a little crazy.  I have no idea what time they actually called it quits and went to bed.

I actually had to say these words, "ZAC!  Please stop using your face to play air hockey!"

I went into Addy's room and found her secret treasures she brought back from our shooting adventure.  It would appear that she picked up all the pieces of a TV screen someone had shot out and she arranged them so love-a-ly on her shelf.

Zac and Josh went into Emily's room to hide from the girls and try to scare them. 

I finally gave up on photographing the children and got in bed.  I could still hear the kids when I drifted off.  Around 4:45 I crawled out of bed to wish our guests a safe ride home.  We are so glad for the time we were able to spend with Ed and Lisa and Josh and Meagan.  It was a fun time!

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Dulaneys Do Utah Day 4: Wednesday July 11, 2012

On Wednesday we loaded up the wheelers and headed for the mountains.  We spent the whole day just hangin' out in the mountains and riding ATV's.  It was almost midnight that night before we made it home and  fell exhausted into our beds.

Above: Meagan and Lisa, Below: Josh

Aubrey

Addy and Emily

Lisa

Ed

Zac waiting his turn to ride

Emily

Meagan

  Zac playing a game of Uno with his little sister

Zac

Steve doing a little work via his cell phone while we are taking a break

Zac was making me so mad standing here.  You can't tell from the picture but he is standing on a 40 ft vertical drop.  I believe my exact words to him were, "ZAC!  We just canceled our health insurance so if you fall, you are just going to have to bleed out!"  I was only kidding really.  Kind of.

Zac taught everyone how to make his favorite campfire treat.  Roasted Starburst.

Deep discussion

 Making S'mores

And this is where it happened.  We were quietly sitting around the table playing Uno while all of our men folk were out on the trail.  This old tie dye wearing hippy came and starting yelling at us and threatening to call the Sheriff on us and make us vacate the premises immediately.

Apparently there was some confusion on how much we had paid and what we had paid for to use this site for the day.  He would not even give us a chance to explain or figure out where the problem was or to even fix it.  He just started yelling and screaming and calling us liars and telling us he was calling the Sheriff and we were going to have to pack up and leave right then with all of our guys out on the trail.  He was mad at us for still being there because we told him we were just using the site for the day (all 4 times he came up to our site during the day)(There was only one other campsite in the whole place being used) and he told us that the day use time was up and blah, blah, blah.  He was psycho.  Seriously.  He did have a New York accent and a NY Yankees sticker on the back of his truck so I'm assuming that explains his hospitable ways.  

What bothers me the most about the whole thing is that he came when all of the guys were gone and it was just 2 women and 4 girls.  We weren't a group of loud teenagers having a party and drinking.  We were calmly sitting at the table playing Uno.  So he pretty much put a damper on our little gathering.  We put away the game and started packing up our stuff and were all ready to leave as soon as the boys got back.

Oh well!  It was still a fantastic day and the angry old hippy with ATV issues (I really think he didn't like us because of the ATV's - he came up to our site several times during the day to tell us to drive them slowly through the camp, even though we hardly ever drove them in the camp and we were the only ones there for the majority of the day and WE WERE DRIVING SLOW!)  At least we have a fun story to tell now.

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