The End of the Road

It looks like the roller coaster is coming to a stop tomorrow, 5:30pm Mountain Standard Time, when we land in Salt Lake City, Utah.  The year in a nutshell: Driving on the "other" (aka "wrong") side of the road, Edinburgh Napier University, missionary discussions, the Gooch's, Tynecastle Nursery School, Craiglockhart Primary School, Boroughmuir Secondary School, Edinburgh New Town Cookery School, 85 Colinton Road, Asda, YM/YW, Street Dance - Simon,  Basketball  - Calvin, Chinese - Annie, EFY and Temple Week - Preston,  Owen - Sylvia, Pageant, the baptism of a Ms. Jade Herriot, Stirling, Inverness, London, Holland, Italy, Tesco, Gorgie Farm, Harrison Park, Bar Italia Restaurant, Anne Runnals, haggis, neeps and tatties, Ironbru... and a few valleys amongst the peaks of the year that never made it to the blog, and most likely won't ever escape our lips.  Life can be very hard, even in Scotland:~)

And lest any of you get the idea that life is going to go back to "normal" shortly, Here's whats on tap for the next 7 days: Fly the seven of us (plus a niece, Jordan, who's headed to BYU!) and our 29 pieces of luggage into Utah. Unpack a house. Buy a car. Get cell phones, and internet.  Register the 5 kids for school. Do the back to school supply shopping.  Drive Jordon to Provo, and even return Ryan to the airport.  He's headed back to Scotland for two more months to finish up his contract. Normal? Normal is boring.

Brandon and Tassie live right outside this fantastic city park.  We walked along this lovely forest trail down to the lake to play on the paddle boats.  The walk was long enough that a drinking fountain was a welcome site. owen loved the short fountain, obviously intended for dogs.

A picture of many of the cousins that were there.

Safety first!

We had a great picnic lunch, and then played at the park after.

Grandpa, Preston, and Jordon decided to take a little nap whilst the littles played.

Our park venture was followed by swimming at our hotel pool, pizza and ice cream back at Brandon's, and lots of chatting and trying to maximize every minute together.