We tried to be spontaneous

Well, we have had a super busy week the last 2. I'm back-dating this entry to the actual day we traveled. If you can believe it, Sarah surprised me with a very spontaneous request to leave early to Utah to see her brother home from his mission in Brazil. She landed the request on me at 3 pm on Friday, the 6th. Well, needless to say hers and my best efforts to be spontaneous were met with serious challenges.

First of all, all of us were battling with a cold that we didn't want to take and give to others in Utah and secondly, Ellie on Friday had started to become very whiney and appeared to have strep or an ear infection. So, as we wrestled with the idea of travelling that night, we decided first to take her to urgent care to know what she had. Yes, that was our third urgent care visit in 4 weeks. Someone it always happend on the weekend.

She turned out to just have an ear infection so we packed up that night and drove bright and early the next morning and arrived in Alpine at 4:30 pm after 8 hours of driving.