I still have not heard one way or the other from my side job. Like hellooo? might be nice to know what is going on!
A little more snow overnight and then 5 minutes ago it just started dumping big flakes.
I guess we're going on a little vacation at the end of June. With the Ford Explorer we purchased, because it is the "ST" (high performance, that's for dh, LOL) Ford offers an "ST Driving Experience". Basically a day where they show you how it handles, etc, but you use their car(s) (I guess, LOL). They offer this either in Park City, Utah or Asheville, NC. Of course DD, SIL and DH want to go. But DD and SIL want to go to NC. The cost of getting there is at your own expense, so we're going to go to the Utah one, where we can drive there in one day. It's a dinner (I think for the whole group/class that is attending the next day) and a nights stay at this nice hotel and then next day is the all day class.
It's about an 8 or so hour drive there, so we can leave home fairly early morning and get there in time to check in and do the dinner. Since it's free for that one night, the registration process only books you for that night. If you want additional night(s), at your own expense, you can add them on your own. Well, it gave a name, ph# and email to contact, but I didn't write it down while registering online last night, so now I'll have to call and figure it out. We'd like to stay a 2nd night, as the class will take most of the day and we don't want to drive back home late in the day. It's like a $300 a night hotel, apparently. I guess we deserve to treat ourselves for one more night. Especially as I hate staying in hotels, I'm sure this will be a much nicer one they we usually stay in, LOL. We may take another couple days and drive down to see the Grand Canyon, as long as dd can pet sit, we might as well.
I plan to just take that whole last week of June off and now just realized the next Monday and Tuesday is our 4th of July holiday's so it will be a nice long vacation time off.
DD asked me yesterday if we had figured which dates we were going to go (they offer quite a few all throughout the summer months). They were trying to schedule when to do theirs and then she said "and I'm sure you guys would need pet sitter while you are gone and either she (or both of them) will come over and stay at our house while we're gone. Oh! well, that's very nice to offer as yes, we'd have to figure out something for the pets (and chickens!) if we go somewhere. And since I booked it to do a Monday/Tuesday experience, she can come over on Sunday and not have to take off work to drive over here and, if she wants to, she can just work from here while we're gone, if she doesn't want to use any of her vacation days. Her dh earns lots more days then she does (length of employment) so if he wants to come he can either use up some days or, if by chance, he gets the new position he's applied for, it's a work from home job, so he could work from here, too. They are going to do the mid June experience in NC and extend their stay a few days and do a bunch of sight seeing, since neither of them have been there before.
Something to look forward to. I have driven through Utah once or twice years ago, but I don't think we ever stopped anywhere there.
Sounds like a fun mini vacation. During these cold days, this surely gives you something nice and enjoyable to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteI think it will be kind of fun. If nothing else I'll enjoy the scenery while dh enjoys the car stuff, LOL.
DeleteI bet you'll have a wonderful time - just don't let them sell you a time share!
ReplyDeleteHaha! No kidding. My parents bought into one of those many years ago. I don't know how they finally ended up getting rid of it. But, they did use it to go to Hawaii for a few weeks every year for quite a few years.
DeleteOh this will be fun. I hope you can see the Grand Canyon!
ReplyDeleteI hope it is. It looks like the drive down to Grand Canyon is another 8 hours south. I'm really tempted to suggest we do Yellowstone Park on the way home, it's heading in the right direction!
DeleteI haven't been to the grand canyon. Never had any interest really. My daughter's have, but they said it wasn't really worth it. If you want a little Utah adventure go to moab. It's not that far south of SLC and it's really cool. Arches national park is there plus another one. Plus there's just a lot of stuff to do. It's touristy, so it's got lots of interesting shops and cute restaurants. Yellowstone that time of year will be a nightmare. We go in May or Sept or October to miss the tourists.
DeleteI should add moab will be busy too, but nothing like Yellowstone. I've stayed in moab a couple times during the summer as I was driving to New mexico.
DeleteI thought of that too, with Yellowstone. It seems to pretty much be a tourist nightmare all summer now. Same with Glacier, which I want to go see again, too, but it's just insane with cars/people as soon as it opens.
DeletePark City is a cute little town. Expensive since it's a resort community. I've been there several times because there's a good outlet mall there. Before covid I used to go down to SLC a couple times a year, plus drive through Utah a couple more. Southern Utah is beautiful until you get closer to the AZ border. Then it's just reservations, and they are sad and depressing. It's horrible to see how they have to live. My daughter used to drive that multiple times a year. She always traveled with dogfood and gallons of water and some bowls so she could put food and water out for all the stray dogs along the way. She even has a dog she found near death that she put in her car and rescued. He spent a lot of time at the vet, and she spent a lot of money on him, but hes happy and healthy now. That dog has no idea how lucky he was that day when he collapsed in the road as my dd was driving by lol.
ReplyDeleteWe probably won't get to do much there since our day will be taken up with the class thing, but will have to find somewhere to eat dinner after and can maybe do a bit of looking around that evening, if we're not too tired. That was a lucky dog!
DeleteThat's exciting & something to look forward to. June is closer than we think.
ReplyDeleteit will be good to get away for a few days.
DeleteI read a portion of this to Tommy. He said that in NC there are places that have a "Nascar Experience," or something like that, so they might want to go there, too. I don't know. This sounds like a nice trip for you, partially free.
ReplyDeleteI don't think they are going to do that one, but SIL is definitely a race fan and they plan to tour Charlotte Motorspeedway and also see if there are any race garages they can tour.
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