Work Trip or Vacation?

This past week I had to go to Price and Moab to teach some classes for work. Steve usually goes with me, but couldn't go this time. Tony was so kind, and took care of the three older kids so Melissa could go with me. We took Porter and Ellie with us, and what a blast we had. We left tues. morning and went to Price, the great thing was I only had to teach from 6:30-8:30 each evening. That gave us the day to play together. Theres a dinosaur museum in Price that Porter enjoyed alot. While I went to class they planned to swim in the pool, but we noticed early on that it had been filled that day with a hose. Plans changed and they only played in the hot tub that night.
The next morning we headed to Moab, which is a fun place to visit. We visited the hole in the rock, a cave blasted in the mountain side and made into a house. It was an interesting place to visit but not a place either of us would want to live. We enjoyed the tour there, there was also a petting zoo. It had some interesting animals, like zebra, camel, african cattle with huge horns, ostrich, emus, angora goats, buffalo, a variety of animals. There were a group of little sparrows flying and lighting around us and they took most of Porter's attention. He totally loved the little birds. Plus his favorite animal of all was a huge plastic elephant and a plastic lizard. (Interesting little mind.)
The next morning we drove thru the Arches National Park, this truly is a beautiful world, but we desided theres no place as beautiful to us as Cache Valley. We visited Tyler in Orem and took him to an early dinner. The kids along with Melissa and I were thrilled to see him. He's doing great and is excited for school. We had great fun eating at the Panda Express which Porter loved too. He said this is my favorite place, Kung Fu Panda.
Last of all we stopped at my sister Loretta's house in Bluffdale. We didn't mean to stay long but enjoyed our visit and so we didn't leave til dark. We didn't get home till late and we were a little giddy driving thru Sardine Canyon. We laughed til we cried, we wondered if we were really that funny or if we were just tired. We desided it was total tiredness, but it was so funny at the time. All in all it was a great time, work only got in the way of fun a little.
What a great time we had, thanks to Tony for keeping the kids, and thanks to Stephanie for keeping Kimball for Tony during the day. And thanks to Melissa, Porter, and Ellie for some wonderful memories. I totally enjoyed it!