The house Windy was born to. Boulder Colorado, still standing as it was 33 years ago in 1975.

Mesquite blossoms in the Desert (Green Valley, AZ)

Elnorra is set to go. Unloading the truck in to DD's garage. Thanks to Emily and family and the Sauharita 1st ward.

Unloading the storage unit into the Penske truck. Thanks to the Toby boys and freinds from Beaver, UT and Debbie Nollan, our special friend, for the clean up!

Dilly and Oliver teaking a break from the road trip (while the Monter is getting it's wheel bearings repacked) Kaylee made a bid for freedom and was left in Beaver City (UT) for nearly a week until we came back through with the U-haul (OK it was a Penske) and she came righ on up as if she expected us back anyday.

14 August 2007 our last day at Beaver High Adventure Base. Our family in front of Strawberry Flat.

Our last day at Beaver, heading back into the "real" world. Aunt Annie with the girls at strawberry flats.

Ben lead the hike to "3 peaks" today. Beautiful senic views and wild flowers.

Windy and her dad, Ken repelling at Beaver High Adventure Base. It was wonderful to have Ken and his wife, Lorie, come up the mountain for a visit.

Beautiful Beaver mountain.

Our mountain home.

Mountain living...nap time. Both girls actually slept at the same time! They are sleeping in our staff jackets during staff COPE training.

We had a whirlwind trip back to the States with the help of Windy's sister, Emily, and her daughter, Kelsey. We flew from Taipei, Taiwan to Tucson, AZ, USA on the 5th of June. We landed in Tucson about 2 hours after we left Taiwan, well that's only because we crossed the international date line! We were in airports or in the air for about 15 hours. Between the 3 adults 2 children and 1 infant we had 11 suitcases, 2 car seats and a stroller to check in. 4 pieces of luggage were delayed a day from LA to Tucson because of the tiny commuter jet we were on.

We spent 3 days with Windy's mom, DD, in Green Valley, AZ (south of Tucson) and indeed went to Wal-mart on the way to DD's house and bought matching socks! We also ate at Jack in the Box. Oh the joys of being home!

We adopted Emily's old car, a 1995 Mitsubishi Montero and are very happy to have our own independent transportation again. Windy really struggled with transportation in Taiwan. Now she gets to pay over $3 a gallon for gas and replace the windshield as well a regular oil changes and maintenance! OK, so Taxis were cheaper, but now I can go where I want to when I want to! Yippee! OH yeah, and parking is a non issue where I've been.

We visited Windy's dad for just a day to celebrate Fathers day with the annual water balloon toss.On Saturday the 9th of June (a week early).Then hit the road again and made it to Beaver High Adventure Base Boy Scout Camp by midnight on the 10th of June after 2 mis-adventures. We went to our storage unit in Cedar City to pick up a few things and didn't realize the time zone had changed and couldn't get out of the gate after 9 pm. We thought we were doing well to be done at 8:45, ARIZONA time. Oops! Oh well, we were able to get the gate opened in about 20 minutes and were on our way again. The 2nd misadventure was loosing a duffel bag of baby clothes and toiletries off the roof rack as we didn't have any more room inside the car and though we were nearly to our destination and didn't tie it down properly.

Well anyway we are mostly enjoying our time at camp, though it's been a super rough transition on Cordelia at only 2 and a half months old. The climate when from 90 degrees F and 90 percent humidity to 40 degrees at night and 5 percent humidity!

We are working hard and getting full of nice clean dirt!

 

 

We took a quick trip across the border to Mexico in our short visit in Arizona before heading up to Utah. To bad they charge for a visa to get a stamp in your passport. We were in 3 countries in the space of 4 days.


And just for proof that a red octagon is universal for stop here's a picture in Spanish to match the Chinese sign shown earlier in the blog.