A Trip to American Fork!

 We hadn't been to American Fork for nearly two years because of COVID-19 restrictions.  We finally went to see Steve, Angela, Micah and Erika over Grandad's birthday weekend!  I have gotten out of the habit of taking many pictures since it is just the dad and me. I snagged about half of these pictures from Angela's blog.  I'm glad she's good at remembering to take pictures!

We started out the adventure by going to a Council of Governments luncheon in Grants.  The dad probably would have skipped this luncheon, but they changed the date to accommodate him.  As it turns out, he was a CoG Champion this year, and they wanted to recognize and honor him at the luncheon.  They gave him a beautiful Acoma pot that is now sitting on our piano.

We spent the night in Price on the way up so we wouldn't have to drive through the canyons in the dark and in the pouring rain.  We got up early and went on a walk in Price.  we found a couple of geocaches along the way!  This one was in a faux drain kind of like the one in front of our house.

We found this in a teeny-tiny hidden cemetery.

Delicious wings for dinner!

We got to American Fork on the dad's 61st birthday!  Steve made Buffalo Wings for dinner.  They were a hit all the way around!

Steve made the dad a German Chocolate cake using monk fruit sweetener instead of sugar for the whole diabetes thing.  The texture and taste came out different than with sugar, but it was still a great birthday cake.  (The next day, I put some in a mug and put milk on it, and Micah and Erika liked it so much that we had to make a second mugful so I could taste it!

We got all the bike tires fixed and ready to ride, so Angela, Doug and I took a practice ride while Steve was working, Micah was watching TV, and Erika was sleeping!

At Art Dye Park, we discovered blackberry bushes, so we picked and ate some!

That night, we bought dinner and took it over to Mary's.

We took our bikes up so we could go on a biking adventure.  We found some blackberry bushes in Art Dye park along the trail, so we stopped to pick some!

Making pitas for gyro sandwiches!

These are out of order, but we rode bikes up to the lake for an adventure!

Steve made pita for the gyros dinner.

They turned out great!

We did our Story Time with Grandma and Grandad from American Fork!

On Sunday evening, we had a rousing game of Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?

Getting ready to put the bike rack back on the car.

We sure love these grandkids of ours!

We will miss them!