Last Tuesday night after Jensen got home from her film class at SLCC, we all loaded into the car and headed to Saint George to begin our Thanksgiving vacation. We arrived in 3:45 driving time. In the morning we drove together most of the way with Grandma and Grandpa and Hanna and Katie in grandpa's car.
We arrived at Hotel Hoke about 2pm. Shortly after arriving I went for a shortish ride on my bike. I had the longer crankset on and the Kneesaver pedal extender device on the right side. It was very hard for me to clip in. I think from walking in the gravel. I should probably not do that again. Almost halfway into my ride the right pedal backed out almost all of the way and unfortunately messed up the threads in the crank. I managed to get it back in using the allen wrench on the end of the pedal.
In the morning I went for a ride also. Just as I was parking the car a man turned hs car around and parked behind me. I could see he was dressed in workout gear and wanted to talk. He gave me his card and invited me to ride with him and some friends. I had been wanting to try a 10 mile TT to see if I could get over 23 MPH. This is what I was trying Thanksgiving morning. I didn't quite make it, could only manage a 22 MPH average. I guess I'm in a lot better shape in the summer.
I helped grandma make the chocolate pies for Thanksgiving and then helped Stuart and Sean build small retaining walls for Ed on either side of some steps coming up from his beach. I felt like Stuart and Sean needed to lead on this project so I just kinda helped out where I could see it needed and tried to anticipate their moves.
Friday morning I met with Mark Paterson and his friends Chad and Dave for a ride out to the Havasu dam and back. We stopped at a very nice little cafe a friend of theirs runs 5 miles outside of town. We rode at a pretty good clip. We were pacing for a while and were doing great. Dave needed us to slow down some and the pacing stopped. These were very nice people to ride with.
After returning we decided to go shooting. I got the Explorer stuck on a rock. So we had Ed come pull us off with his jeep. Unfortunately the Explorer rolled into his Jeep and we broke a taillight. We had lots of fun shooting and I shot a hole in a 12 gauge shotgun shell at 25 yards with the revolver.
The whole family went to the movies that afternoon. We went with those watching Enchanted. Mark Paterson and his wife and daughter were there at the same showing. So they got to meet some more of us. On the way home we got pulled over by the local constabulary on account of the broken taillight. Family passing in other cars were concerned that he might find the firearms that were still in the back of the Explorer. He was very friendly and didn't write me up. I think the two broken pieces of taillight sitting on my bumper helped convince him that my story was true, we had just broken it earlier in the day.
We spent most of our nights with the big kids watching and enjoying immensely "Firefly."
We left town on Saturday right after BYU beat the U in their football game. For some time Lenore has been wanting to visit mountain meadows. So we made a small trip through there on the way home.
For the most part our trip was very enjoyable. We still have problems with Laney getting bored in the car and not knowing what is appropriate behavior for interacting with her older sisters.
Laney "fishing" off the dock. She had a HUGE hook on the line.
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