We made it! It was exhausting, but the roads were surprisingly empty for a holiday weekend—we breezed straight through. Jared and I left at 11 pm July 3, drove through the night and made it to his parent’s house in Utah around noon (their time). Though needed, we didn’t get in a whole lot of napping because it was Dad Pike’s birthday and all the rowdy nieces and nephews came over to celebrate. Plus, there were fireworks.
Monday was pretty mellow, but Tuesday, there was some excitement while we were jumping on the ground level trampoline in the backyard. Jared had just cleared the area so he could show the nephews the “Bunny” flip. They roared with laughter when he yelled out “Bum,” but somewhere between “Knee” and “Flip,” a spring shot out and suddenly Jared disappeared! One minute he was bouncing in the air, and the next he was on his back, staring up through a through a tear in the middle of the trampoline. It was pretty hilarious, to say the least. Unfortunately, Jared broke the nephews’ hearts as well as the trampoline, so there was some guilting from Wesley and Travis about that.
We left for the family reunion on Wednesday and stayed in a very nice K.O.A. next to Bear Lake. There we played games and more than one round of Spoons (which was in keeping with Pike tradition, competitive and near lethal). Bear Lake was gorgeous, clear, and COLD!!! There was skiing and tubing, but by far we had the best time on the jet skis. Aside from scaring Levi (we took a couple of wakes pretty hard) Jared and I had the best time on those things!
While packing away the tent on Saturday Jared and I unearthed an unwelcome visitor—a fat little mouse! Even though she had been burrowing under the tent and not in it, I was VERY glad we’d been sleeping on cots! (Thanks parents for letting us borrow the camping gear!) Of course, all the kids gathered around and wanted to take it home, but with Mom Pike’s help, a cup and paper plate, it was successfully released in to the wild.
After that, we took off for Idaho where we visited some families Jared had met on his mission. It was interesting from my perspective, never having most of these people, but they were all friendly and funny and nice. It was nice to meet the people that Jared had told me stories about—and fun to hear their stories about him! Everyone we visited also had GORGEOUS homes—even the house with twin toddlers was decorated beautifully. In Idaho we also saw Despicable Me (cute!) and randomly met up with one of the missionaries we had met in the Moon Mountain Ward, when Jared was mission leader.
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