4th of July was great! It turned out great is what i should say. We were planning on going camping and at the last minute we decided not to. Some things came up. So we went to plan B. We got up saturday not knowing what we were going to do. Lovey said "let's go to pinetop and see if we can book a hotel.". I got online to book the hotel and pinteop, payson, and all other surrounding areas were FULL! I said "let's just go and if we need to we will pull over on the side of the road and pitch a tent. Funny huh. For those of you who know me and lovey we just are not like that. We always have a plan and are organized. Not this time. We packed up the kids and headed out. We got into town and drove around trying to get a hotel for a couple of hours. Some were beyond nasty!!! We were getting desperate. We booked one hotel and anthony and cameron came back shaking their heads. Cameron get's into the car and says, "No way in heck you are staying there mom. It smells like strawberry smoke!" I told lovey to go back in and cancel. He wouldn't so guess who did. You guessed it, I did. I marched my way in there and told them we weren't staying there cause it was nasty and it stunk! The lady just looked at me like I was a snot nose. I didn't care!!! YUCK!!! So we got some dinner, got our spot for the fire works and had a great time watching the fireworks. While we were waiting the boys played some football. 9:00 rolled around and i told lovey we needed to figure out what we were going to do for sleeping arrangements. We got in the car and started driving. We drove until 1:00 in the morning trying to find somewhere to sleep. We finally found something in Holbrook, which isn't close to pinetop. At that point I didn't care. I was tired of driving. Wonderful hotel, great night sleep. Woke up refreshed. We drove to snowflake to see the temple and got some pictures of the temple and the kids.We then drove back into showlow and decided to go out to sunrise to ride the ski lift. When we got there they were having a Bow hunting expedition. So 2 of the lifts were closed but we got to at least ride on one of the lifts. It was cool for my kids. They got to look at all the bows. Payton asked for one for christmas. I said "sure, cause we have so many deers where we live!"
So the gang was hungry after that and as we were driving back into pinetop area we saw a sign for Indian fry bread. It looked like a shack. Not anywhere that people would eat. Guess what, We ate there and it was yummy! Anyways, everything was great. We came back into showlow and we were getting ready to check into the hotel (which was nasty again) and i said "Lovey,if we aren't going to do anything tomorrow let's just head home." So we did. We got back home about 10:30. It was quite an adventure. The kids cooperated, thankfully and all went well. We had a great time together as a family!
