16.5 hours

Lexee, Shilo, Mauri and I spent our day in the car.  Literally.  16.5 hours.  
We left when it was dark (about 5:45am Pacific time) and arrived home in the dark (11:15pm Mountain time).  Somewhat uneventful.  
And although we saw 15 highway patrol officers and 1 Parker policeman, none of them were after us 
(whew!).

Some pictures to remind us of our long journey home:

Mojave Desert -- all that it's cracked up to be -- a desert

A special picture... just for my sister (and new fellow blogger) --
the hostess with the most-est

Some Nevada landscape... for some reason I love those Joshua trees 

(maybe because U2 had an album named that?)

Utah landscape... and another of those endless Ranch exits with No Services.  

Who uses those exits anyway??

From desert to snow... all within a few hours.  A fascinating attention-grabber.

And we can't forget the innumerable speed limit signs.

Still in Utah... with a variety of scene changes along I-70.  Diversity is good.

Finally in Colorado as we leave Grand Junction... homeward bound.

The moon looks so cool.

...through the mountain...

(those I-70 tunnels give me tunnel-vision... seriously!)

We drove almost a fourth of the way home in darkness... on winding mountains roads... without discernible lines.  
Stressful to a person who can barely drive at night anyway.  Thankfully, we did not drive off a cliff.

I saw the sign... and it opened up my eyes, I saw the sign...

it just makes me want to sing.

Home at last... to a clean house and happy husband 
(who has kindly agreed to get up with Lexee for seminary in the morning -- what a great guy).


Lexee helped with the drive (which was awesome!),

but slept most of the way home.  Happily, she didn't sleep as she drove.


More Spring Break pics tomorrow... I'm hitting the hay.