You're probably sorry he didn't write the post as well and spare you from my uber-lengthy posts :P He has declared that this post is way too long (seeing as it spans 4 pages when pasted into Word) and won't let me post it all as one post, so it will be divided into several different posts. Sorry that it no longer has the continuity of a single post, but maybe it will be easier to read in smaller chunks. I'll publish them as each chunk is completely filled out with pictures/videos from our Christmas adventures :)
So we left two days before Christmas with little sleep (read: we slept for about 3 hours the night before and hadn't had much sleep in the previous week either) and arrived pretty exhausted in California late that night. The roads were a bit slick but manageable until we got through St. George and we hit a little bit of traffic as we got into LA (no surprise there) but otherwise we were able to get through without any trouble at all. We would have taken longer, but fortunately my dad was able to help us circumvent really bad traffic in Las Vegas (due to construction - who decides that the weeks around Christmas are a good time to do major construction in the middle of Las Vegas??). It was really funny to take that detour though as we had our GPS on and trying to take us to the I-15, while we were on the other hand taking a bunch of smaller highways to go around the dreaded traffic jam. It spent almost our entire detour trying to get us to turn around and go back. We didn't want to just turn it off, so instead we spent about 30 minutes listening to the GPS say "Drive point five miles then exit right... exit right... recalculating... drive one point three miles then exit right..." Someday I think someone needs to rewrite the programming of the GPS to just get really snarky and after so many attempts of getting you back on its route have it just get fed up with you and say "Fine, drive off a cliff for all I care!"
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Our very creative route through Vegas
The whole family was home for the holiday - including my sister Taylor's fiance Ryan Lockwood. They have both moved to California from now until their wedding and for the foreseeable future. I think they were most excited that they've finally set a place and a date for that wedding - May 23rd in the Palmyra, New York Temple (Ryan is from that area, and originally so is my family so it's pretty cool on a lot of levels). I'm really excited for them, and especially excited to finally get to go back to New York, I haven't been back since April 2000.
Aww, Taylor and Ryan, squishy!
It was the first time we've actually stayed at my family's home since we got married. We'd seen my family a lot as they've come up to Utah a lot of times, and when we went camping in Carpinteria with them but hadn't stayed at our house. It was fun to get to be there as a married couple now, since the last time we'd stayed there together we were engaged - in fact, it was the night before our wedding!
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It was fun having you here. We love it when the whole family can be together.
BTW, the detour around the Las Vegas traffic is not quite correct. I modified the map on your post, but it wouldn't properly embed in a comment. Your actual route (excluding getting off the freeway for gas) was as depicted, but you got off the I-215 in Henderson at W. Lake Mead Blvd and then took that diagonally to the I-15 South.
Thanks Dad! You're right, I'd forgotten that we'd made that extra detour. I changed the map in our post so that it is the right route now.
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