White Christmas 2012 (part 4--LAST)

Friday morning dawned in our special home.  It was cleaning day and leaving day and TUBING day!

The owners and some friends were due to arrive in the afternoon and we had to clean it and get it ready for them.

But because we are McKneelys and this trip seemed to have a theme of over scheduling, we'd really wanted to go tubing and had made reservations at Soldier's Hollow (Olympic 2002 site for Cross Country Skiing) So we were in a time crunch.  Cleaning the house and packing all our stuff by our 10:00 reservation.  This was quite the feat!

But everyone pitched in and we were pretty well there (dang washers and dryers took FOREVER with the bedding) in time so off we went.

This was a REALLY FUN activity:

After tubing we headed back to the house to change our clothes and do last minute house prep stuff.  We were headed to this place:

This whole trip started because back when we went on our Disney Cruise (May 2011) it was to celebrate Grandpa Carl's 60th birthday, and we had such a fun time we were trying to find another event to celebrate with a vacation and this was their 40th anniversary of being sealed in the Manti Temple.  Most of the adults went in and left a few out to tend the kids.  After we went for pizza and started the drive home, goal that night was Moab.  And to arrive home Sunday afternoon.

Fun things to note:

1.  I began reading Harry Potter #1 out loud to my family on the way to Manti.  We almost read the whole thing (remaining 3 chapters) by the time we arrived home.  We're hooked!

2.  Matthew got motion sick when I turned on a movie after pizza in Manti and it was dark outside.  This combined with him being still bundled in his seat made him overheated and then motion sick.  I've never had a child so young have the vocabulary to warn me he was going to throw up but he did and we only half way believed him.  It was in the teens in temperature when he finally did and we had to change him on the side of the road.  Thankfully in an attempt to cool him off I'd removed a top layer of clothing from him just moments before so we had a change of clothing handy.  BUT we were up late at the hotel doing laundry.  Stephen braved the cold on the side of the road and truly deserves an award.