We Finally Got Internet!!

Well we are now on the 5th day of our vacation and we have just got internet access so we have a lot to report!

Day 1: We were in the motor home for 10 hours or so and made it to El Dorado State Park and got set up, since we left a day early we decided to stay two nights. We pretty much ate dinner and went to bed because it started raining.

Day 2: We got up and explored the park a little then went swimming. We decided to have steaks and potatoes for dinner that night and had to hurry and run them in quick as they were just getting done as storms were rolling in. Not long after we finished eating the sirens began going off, over and over, finally Mama ran across the road and asked another camper what was going on. He said there was a tornado on the ground not far away on the lake that we had looked at earlier. We ran in the pouring rain to the bath house. Jack had no clothes on and was wrapped in a towel........it was great. Apparently it touched down about 2 miles from where we were but missed us...yea!!!! It did storm for the rest of the night but no more sirens thank goodness. Thanks to Marv, Lisa and John for there help with checking the weather and calling us with updates!

Day 3: Good Bye Kansas......for good. I don't think we will be visiting again any time soon! Today was spent on the road and we ended up in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Pretty nice place, no big events. Just pretty much showered and went to sleep.....on our way to the Grand Canyon tomorrow!

Day 4: We spent about 8 hours in the motorhome today. Everything was going along smoothly until the wonderful sand storm we drove through in the Arizona desert. Daddy drove us through though and we all made it just fine. Arrived at our campground and the kids explored and we ate (of course). Tomorrow we are off to the Canyon.

Day 5: All got up and got ready for our trip to the Grand Canyon. We got on the shuttle and Jack wanted to run all over. It was great! We explored for a few hours and had a snack. It was beautiful! Definately worth the trip! Lots of weird bugs too.........there are giant black bees the size of birds...ewww! Jack was quite tired so we came back about 2 and that brings us to about now. We are going to try and get the pics loaded now so wish us luck. We will have internet for the rest of our stops so will try and update daily from now on. Tomorrow we are off to Vegas baby!! We may stop at the Hoover dam if there is a place for us to park this giant thing we are driving! Only about 4 hours to vegas so tomorrow should be all good! Talk to you all soon!!

Love,

Matt, Carrie, Cody, Auna, Jordan, and Jack

p.s. the pics are in reverse order I guess, so the ones on the top are from the grand canyon and then work there way down to when we left. Sorry Im not very savvy when it comes to this stuff!