Roadtrip!

Alex had his first visit to Price over the weekend. We went down for my mom's birthday, and what was initally planned as a 4-hour turn and burn visit, turned into an overnight stay thanks to overwhelming demand from the family to hold Alex just a little bit longer, coupled with Steph's fear that every other driver in the canyon would either be asleep or drunk. I think the odds are higher that we would have been hit by a drunk driver on our way to the Super Wal-Mart later that night to pick up something for dinner (since the Pizza Hut already had its chairs stacked at 9:20pm on a Saturday night!!)

Unfortunately, Alex didn't get to have the full tour of the city since we blew into town at 2:30, and were gone by 10am the next morning. All he saw were my mom's photo-collage covered walls, a wind-up Greek dancer music box that my dad kept shoving in his face and a cute picture of a giraffe standing on a mountain of bunnies his cousin Zoey drew for him. Next time I promise to show him the beautiful gas wells, 3dollar stores, the parking lot that once was my elementary school and the greatest Taco Time in the country.

Actually, there are many things I am looking forward to sharing with him about the town that bore his father (but mostly 'bored' his father) as he gets older. But until then I'm sure he's perfectly content with all the attention doted on him by his loving yia yia, aunt Chris, cousin zoey and papou. And if you don't believe me, just look at this picture: