First part of our trip to Utah

We decided that we would head up to our family reunion a few days early to spend some time with Travis' family. I drove the WHOLE time, yay me! Travis had worked the whole night before so that left me as the driver. On the way up right before, through and after Vegas we hit this HUGE lightning storm. Lightning seriously hit the ground a few yards from our car. This is what it looked like as I was driving towards it...

This is my visibility through the windshield!

We got there safely though. And we spent our first day just driving around Orem and shopping while everyone was at work. We ALWAYS have a few places that we HAVE to eat at and Gandolfos is one of those places, so we stopped in for lunch.

That night we met up with all the in-laws and had dinner at Cafe Rio, YUM!

Afterwards we went over to Travis' twin brother Tyson's house and we chatted for a while and then we put on our suits and went swimming in their community pool! I love swimming!

Travis and his mom

Tyson and Katie

The twins (Travis left and Tyson right)

Travis and Chloe, Tyson and Katie's cat

Me and Sasha Tyson and Katie's other cat after I went swimming, please excuse my appearance.

Our nephew Kelson, he loves to swim! He is sporting his swim trunks.

The next day Travis' mom and dad had the day off so they took us down to Salt Lake and we had lunch at the Lion House Pantry. It was really good food! I had never been there before to eat. After lunch we went to watch the new Joseph Smith movie at the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Then we took some pictures in temple square of the Salt Lake Temple.

Mom and Dad Tucker at the Lion House Pantry

Travis and I at the Lion House Pantry

I have never taken a picture here before. I have always wanted too pretty cool. There were like a million people taking pics here from all over the world, so many accents and languages going on while we were taking pics here it was cool.

Later that night we set off some fireworks with Tyson and Katie at mom and dad Tucker's house. Right after getting through Vegas there is a gas station on an Indian reservation that sells HUGE amounts of fireworks, You could find anything there, seriously. It was pretty awesome. So we bought some to light off. Shhhh...don't tell...

Travis and Tyson showing me and Katie how Morning Glories fireworks are like blow torches and they were torching holes through this tin can. They thought it was the coolest thing.

Katie and I with our sparklers

Me and my sparkler!

Tyson and Katie

Us

Us with our sparklers

I had never seen one of these chikens before. They lay fire eggs!

Mom and dad Tucker

We had tank wars with some tanks that Travis' dad had. These are Travis' and my tanks, I won of course!

My tank

Katie and I

We always go to IceBerg every time no matter what, it's where we met!

Katie and Tyson at IceBerg

Yum!

The next day I went up to Salt Lake to see Jamie. We went to lunch at an Irish Pub called McCools. It was really cool inside and very good food! At least I thought so...

The chicken strip queen begrudgingly eating the PLAIN chicken sandwich I made her order!

Outside the red door at McCools

After lunch we came out to find that our car had been blocked in by a huge semi that was unloading food. So we walked around the stores for a while to kill some time.

Sunglasses shopping

After finally getting our car free we headed over to the London Market in Salt lake, then over to the English tea house next door. We got some Red velevet cake and some crumpets. Yum!

The picky eater queen wasn't so sure about the red velvet cake, but ended up liking it, I think.

MMMMMM....

That night we got together with some of Travis' friends, Tyson and Katie, Mom and dad Tucker, and Travis' other brother Thad, his wife Jenny and our nephew Kelson and we went out to dinner at brick oven pizza in provo. Another must have when we come up! The next day we were off to my family reunion. We had a great time visiting and we were glad we could come up early and spend some time with Travis' family!