THE TRIP HOME!

Well after we dropped Elder Maki off at the MTC, we headed back to the Hotel to get our stuff and head home. Just a note: The Holiday Inn on University Parkway on the west side of I-15 is totally awesome. It just opened in October of last year and is beautiful.  They gave us a late check-out time and told us that there were other missionary's families staying there too. They have fantastic service, free hot breakfast, pool, jacuzzi, fitness centre, the whole nine yards.  It was a great stay.  Anyways on to the post.  We wanted to get on the road but we had a few stops to make first.  We needed some snacks for the trip home to Alberta and a few other things.  I had to find my Caffeine-free Dr. Pepper, and some Veronor's Ginger ale.  We decided to stop by the BYU bookstore to see if they had any Finnish Language books.  Teiler wanted a Fredette jersey and I have a friend from Lethbridge who works at the BYU bookstore, so we tried to find him too.

Y? - Just because!

We finally got on the road for home at some time around 4 PM ish.  The weather that day in Provo was 19-20 degrees celcius, it was really nice outside.  The further north we drove the more the skies closed in.  We started to get rain at about Ogden area and then it just kept getting worse and worse.  We had torrential down pores for about 3 hours.  As we got to Milad pass the snow started pounding down, but luckily the road was warm enough that it didn't stick.  We finally drove out of the weather at Inkom Idaho, and then the roads were clear and dry.  We overnighted at Idaho Falls as we had done on our way down.  The Holiday Inn Express that we had stayed at was booked so the front desk dude phoned around and found us a room at the Ameritel Inn.

We got up in the morning and got on the road.  The officer at the border was one that I had had before and we were quickly on our way home to Stirling.  We picked up the dog and settled in at home.