Quickie Trip Down to the Valley

It had been a very long time since the dad and I went to Mesa to see Dad and Carlene.  We had planned to go down for Memorial Day,  but I got Covid a few days before we planned to leave, so we stayed home and were sick instead.  My whole four-and-a-half weeks of Summer Vacation came and went without us going down, so at the end of August, for our anniversary, we took a quickie trip down. We left after work and school on Friday.  We spent Friday Night with Amy, Cody and the boys.  And guess who gets the Grandma of the Year award for not taking a single picture of her grandkids while we were there. You guessed it!  This grandma right here.  We got up early Saturday Morning and went to an Endowment Session at the Phoenix Temple.  Fortunately, Amy took a picture and texted it to me.

We headed over to Mesa.  We picked up lunch at KFC, and we had a nice lunch a visited with dad and Carlene for a few hours.  Guess who did an epoch fail with the picture taking again.  Yep, you are right.

It was good to see them, but it made us kind of sad to know that our trips to see them will all just quick visits like that.  It has gotten too hard for them to have people stay with them now.  

We went by the Mesa Temple.  It was closed for cleaning, but we did get pictures outside.  This is where we were married on August 25, 1982!

After we left Mesa, we went to Payson.  We stayed at a hotel there to celebrate our 42nd Anniversary!  I actually did remember to take pictures there.

We hiked a few hiking trails, and found a few geocaches!

This is where we ate dinner!

After church at Payson on Sunday, we did a few more geocaches before we hit the road for home.

It was a super quick, but fun weekend.  We need to make a point to go see Dad and Carlene more often while we still can,