Finally home! Yay!
Friday we met up with my uncle's family and cousins. We picked up some sides to go with pizza from a local pizza place. We had a nice dinner and catch-up conversation. $9.32
Saturday was another day of driving. We had to go through Las Vegas, so we decided to cruise down the Strip just to gawk, since we've never been. Seriously, it might be worth going again at some point just for the peoplewatching, lol! Anyway. We did dinner at Wendy's in Utah for $15.97. Then another hotel pool, yay!
Sunday was a shorter drive, and we stopped in Arches National Park, staying in Moab for the night. Arches is _amazing_. We drove around the park in the evening, and then we were able to do a couple short hikes in the morning before we left to make the last leg of the drive home. It is definitely worth a multi-day camping trip at some point.
There was a Denny's right next to the hotel, so we went there. That was a bad decision. Only 30-50% of the tables were full, but it took at least 10 minutes just to be seated. Should have taken the red flag then, but I was dumb. The food was reasonably okay, the waitress seemed friendly, but the wait seemed interminable-- I was seriously measuring in my head *Hm...x minutes to the store, x minutes to "home", x minutes to cook....I could just about make dinner myself on a hotplate and a microwave....", and the check was messed up too. Ugh. Some days I'm happy to pay $30.06 for dinner. Not this day. Anyway...moving on....
Monday we did Arches 'til lunch-- picnic in the park-- then on the road again. Drove through all the pretty mountains and did dinner at Chipotle. $26.82.
Today was pretty much a "sleep in and do nothing" day. Picked up some bread, lettuce, and tomato and did sandwiches for dinner with the last of the cold cuts and cheese from the cooler.