2020 Road Trip: Driving to Utah, Stop in Kansas

This summer we had an epic road trip planned to the Canadian Rockies and then on to Montana. Unfortunately we had to cancel all of that but we did a trip out to Utah and Colorado instead. And that meant we got to stop in Kansas to see some folks, which was a great addition to our trip!







Leaving campus on Friday, July 10th.

Only took a couple hours before our first technical difficulty. A piece of cosmetic trim started coming off the van and I had to hang on to it until we could stop!

We made it to Joe and Claudia's and got to visit with my Aunt Candy and Uncle Alan who live in Wisconsin. They just happened to be in town when we came!

The boys absolutely love Joe and Claudia's dogs!

Got a little yard Jenga in.











On Saturday we went over to my Uncle Steve's to do a social-distance visiting. It was so nice to see everyone...we hadn't been to Kansas in 4 years.








With my Uncle Lloyd and Uncle Steve.

We got one picture and my eyes are closed of course! I need to edit this somehow!

Oliver really took a liking to Dave.

And Ike and Hudson were fast friends!

Look at all these boy second cousins!

Joe let Ike and Dave take his lawn mower for a spin.
















On Sunday we got up early and headed west again. Our plan was to stop in Glenwood Springs for the night but we called our condo owners and got in a day early in Moab. Quick 14 hour car ride :)


As we were driving in the western part of Colorado we saw a huge storm blowing in. It went from sunny to pouring down rain and then sunny again in about a half mile. So weird. But after the rain we saw a huge rainbow.





Kids were such good sports for all of our driving.










From the car so not the best picture but you get the idea!











The cloud looked crazy before the rain hit.

Checking another state off for the kids!










Double rainbow from the parking lot of our condo.