The day after we got Michael home, Bruce's sister Marilyn and her husband James came out to Vernal for a visit. That Saturday (July 25) they took us to the Utah Field House of Natural History. It was pretty interesting learning a little about dinosaurs and rocks/geology, and stuff like that.
But the real fun started when we encountered
dinosaurs!
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| rraaaawwrrrr! |
During the next two weeks we worked on organizing our new home.
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| This is the front of the house; we Norths live upstairs. We all—both families—cook and eat together on the main floor. |
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| This is my new bedroom. My bed is in an alcove (gable?). |
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| This is our living room/girls' bedroom/sewing room. I have the camera and I'm standing in the hallway, facing east. There's a bathroom to my direct right, and to Bruce's left (my right) is an alcove with the sewing and ironing tables. |
We also did some gardening with the Rays
And my kids worked on corrupting the Ray kids with their tablets and iPads.
On August 7 we went back to Salt Lake to take care of some errands and appointments, and get the rest of our stuff out of the house. On Saturday (the 8th) we went to Provo River Falls on our way to pick Lindsey up from Camp Steiner (where she worked all summer).
And on Sunday we had an open house/welcome home for Michael. We headed back to Vernal on Tuesday.
The following Saturday we drove down to Ephraim to deposit Lindsey at Snow College. She is excited to be back there and she's excited about her classes. Yay!
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| Moving into her new apartment. |
Then we had a four-day breather before school started here in the Uintah Basin.
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| one teacher, three high-schoolers, and two middle-schoolers |
It has been one crazy-busy summer!
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You know, my Great Grandma lived out there her whole life. She owned an Indian trading post on main street, and lived right next to the shop. In fact it's still there, the building, sign and house anyway. The sign is a large arrow shot into the ground on an angle. The sign is at the top and a Ute Indian is sitting on top of the sign. The shop is now a bicycle shop. The tiny house and shed she lived in are still there. So, because she lived there, our summer vacations as a kid always included a trip to Vernal (after my great grandma passed) because we could stay in her house for free. We always went to the dinosaur museum, except it was the old one, and it's not there anymore. But the dinosaurs and artifacts at the new museum are the same. They've repainted those dino's so many times. We also always went to the aqua noodle water slide. I don't think that's around anymore. The quarry is neat too.
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