Yesterday (Sept 4th) started out as a beautiful morning. Debra went to lunch with Katy and then walked over to Joy's school to help her in her classroom. I went to lunch with Ryan (it was his last day at Convergys... he started his new career today). After lunch, I went to the J Dawg shack to see how Jayson was doing. It had been a very busy morning for the shack... all of a sudden, things started to get strange.
A police car pulled up and parked right in front of the shack and the officer got out and went into the new pizza shop next door. Jayson was not happy because he did not have any customers while the car was in front of the shack.
Simultaneously, the sky got really dark and angry. Soon lightning was striking all around us and the wind started blowing and the rain came down hard. I left and went to Ryan's house to get him and Haylee so we could go to the Cabela store and watch them feed the fish in the giant aquariums (Haylee loves to do this).
While we were in Cabela's the storm intensified to a major storm... 60 to 80 mile an hour winds and major lightning! While I was in the back of the store purchasing some binoculars for our trip, Ryan and Haylee went to the front of the store to get a cart and they watched a lightning bolt hit the cluster of flag poles in the front of the store. Trees blew down and power went out all up and down the Wasatch Valley... A twister touched down in Verde and blew a horse trailer threww the air. It was wild. The lightning and thunder did not let up all night long... it was amazing.
After I left Ryan's place, I met Deb for dinner with Jayson, Heidi, Mae and Joy. then we went to Joy's apartment to help her set it up. It is a nice place.
This morning, things had cleared up and things were all wet. It was refreshing though because it seemed to cool down a bit.
We resumed our road trip today at about noon. It was hard to leave our kids and especially our grandaughters! We had a very good time visiting with all of them. Haylee and Mae are growing up so fast... and they are both so smart... it was really fun to see the progress that little Mae made even just while we were there. Thanks to everyone for having us... it was great.
By 3:00 we were in Idaho headed for Rexburg. We arrived at 6:00 p.m. and took Ty and Jess to dinner. After dinner we went up on BYU Idaho campus and walked through the landscaped gardens. It was very peaceful and the weather was very cool and refreshing. It is bringing back some good memories from when Ryan, Brandyn, and Jayson went to school here... I like Rexburg.
Tyler is going to work tonight and tomorrow we are going to go see some of the sights and attractions that are here locally... stay tuned.
We already miss our Utah family but it is great to be here with Ty and Jess... They look good and their apartment is very nice... very them... we love it.
Sorry about the lack of photos today... My camera was in the back of my car at Ryan's hoouse while we were at Cabela's and I did not get any pictures of the storm... can you believe it? I am sure there are lots of good one on the internet though if you go to www.KSL.com
Goodnight from Rexburg!
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we loved having you here too! You know there are lots of homes for sale in Utah...
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