Fun with Family

Pictures are supposed to be worth a thousand words, so let's hope this works because I'm short on words tonight.

Here's Mom/Blue Grandma on the phone, talking to the doctor.
















Yoni and Daniel perform...

















While Steve makes a movie of them...

















The boys amuse themselves while the grownups talk.

















Pizza Night, where we banned sickness and pain for the duration of the meal.
















Finally, at the end of the day...

Blazing and Saddles

Originally, we'd planned to be in California for the start of Shabbat, but best-laid plans and all that. As we watched the sun set behind the mountains in Western Utah, we were singing Shabbat songs and talking about what it meant to each of us to be "close to G-d."

We're almost to California! Tonight we're in Elko, Nevada, which is true to Nevada form in that there is no shortage of blazing, blinking lights to advertise places to eat and gamble.

Yoni asks: What is "gamble?"

I likened it to vending machines that offer toys, but you only get a toy some of the time. And you have to put your money in all of the time.

Yoni: In the Wyoming desert, we saw some cows, which was really weird, because usually cows don't go in the desert unless the farmer lets them.

We drove over the Continental Divide today. On our list of Questions To Which We Don't Yet Know The Answer, we put "What is the Continental Divide?" The answer, according to Yoni (after Googling it tonight): it's a bunch of mountains that, when it rains, it separates where the water goes. One way it goes to the Pacific, the other way it goes to the Atlantic.

Now for a few photos:

As we drove into Salt Lake City, we saw... is that SMOG? Eww...
















It did make for interesting sunbeams, though...
















At a McDonald's in Wyoming, they had an interesting choice for seating:
















Cool rock formations:
















And a special photo for Jeanice. Note the name of this gas station in Utah (you may have to click on the photo to see it larger). Also note the price of gas. :-)

Hello from Lincoln, Nebraska!

And the long-awaited answer to our poll is: 8:02 a.m.

We made it to Lincoln, Nebraska. It was my hope to make it to Ogallala, NE, but sleeping 2 hours last night combined with a late-ish start made it a better choice to stop in Lincoln.

Also, I noticed something. Once we hit I-80, we are driving mostly west. The sun sets in the west. This makes for quite bright driving come sunset. Painfully bright driving. Blindingly bright, even. So we are here in Lincoln. And let me tell you, I can't explain it, but there was something very right about pulling into Lincoln at sunset while listening to David Broza. Maybe it's just me.

Okay, enough from the mom.

It's Yoni's turn: I noticed something really weird. Once we hit Council Bluffs there was absolutely no snow! And it was 2 degrees below freezing!

Now it's Daniel's turn: Today we went to a hotel. Our room is nice. And pretty. Eema let us try a digital camera. And she let us use hers. I was in one of the pictures. I took a picture on the very new digital camera and Eema's. There's two lamps next to each other up on the wall and there's a button in between that you push and then they turn off and then if you push it again it turns on. I got a camoflauge suitcase that comes with a water bottle. And in our hotell we got a TV with a cool remote.

Back to Yoni: You may have noticed that Daniel said more. And for dinner we went to Village Inn and I had grilled cheese dunkers with salad on the side and Daniel had macaroni and cheese with graham crackers on the side. And now he's asking me to read Kat Kong to him. We are on our way to California to see Blue Grandma because this may be the last time we may be able to see her again. On our trip, we saw a lot of interesting things, like wind farms and horses.

Here are some pictures we took.