2003-04-23 Utah

This year’s trip to visit Brandon, Debbie and our grandparents was great. The weather was nice and sunny and many of the students were happy to be graduating. While Rachelle and Mom were flying to Utah, Derek, Michael and Dean were taking the long 14 hour drive, which wasn't much fun at all. The first night we stayed at our grandparents’ house in Bountiful then in the morning, we all got ready for the Graduation Ceremony. We took the 45 minute drive to Provo with the car stuffed will everyone’s things they would need for Thursday and Friday. I’m sure we were breaking some sort of law with that much stuff in one car. Once reaching Brandon and Debbie's apartment, we had a quick barbeque. Then hurried off to the graduation ceremony. Brandon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Debbie graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Fitness and Wellness Management.

Afterward we took a few pictures then headed for the Macaroni Grill for dinner. The next morning we once again all got ready for graduation ceremonies. Brandon's was held at the Marriot Center and Debbie's was held at the Joseph Smith Gymnasium. After the graduations we decided to relax a little by playing some put-put golf. After golfing we headed to the Cafe Rio for dinner. We then packed up all our stuff and went to see our family friends, the Bohrer's. Around 11:45pm we headed back for Bountiful reaching our grandparents house at about 1:30am. Saturday morning we all slept in, it was very nice, especially since it was VACATION! We left for SLC around 3 p.m., our parents left to go do genealogy work and we went to the ZCMI mall. We shopped around, took a few pictures, got some food to eat, then met back up with our parents and drove back to Bountiful. That night we went to the Cold Stone for ice cream. We met one of our cousins there, Tanya, and decided to go see Kangaroo-Jack at the dollar theater. Sunday we all went to church then had a great double pot roast meal cooked by my mother. Dessert was good too, even our grandma had some! Monday morning we woke and started the drive home at 6 a.m. Utah time, 5 a.m. PST. We got home at about 6:45 p.m. It was a fun trip but I think I will fly next time.