A quick little road trip...part 1

This past June we decided that since July was going to be filled with High Adventure Camp, Scout Camp, Band Practices (oh yeah, Parker made Jazz Band at the Junior High), swimming lessons, birthdays (quite a few of them I might add), and whatever else July may hold, we would take a quick little road trip to Vegas. We left on a Monday afternoon after we did baptisms with the youth in our ward, that was a neat experience all by itself. We decided that we were not going to take the freeway to get to Vegas. Basically, we took the back roads until we hit Cedar City (it was getting late by then). We went through Eureka, Delta, and Milford. My kids usually love taking the roads less traveled and reading the historical markers along the way and learning about the various cities and surroundings that they see.

The first few photos of the old, run down buildings are from Eureka, an old mining town. The kids want to go back and spend more time there.

This was on the corner in Milford, sort of as you are heading out of town. Brent and I liked the old sign on the hotel...Hotel Milford.

It was raining out west of where we were. The skies were really dark, but there was just a glimpse of sun peeking through. This pic was in the middle of now where...really. Somewhere between Milford and Cedar City.

As we drove a little further, seriously, maybe 5 minutes is all, the skies changed from the up above pic to this.

Right outside of Cedar City there are petroglyphs. We drove down the well maintained dirt road to get a glimpse of the drawings. There were hundreds of these drawings. It was pretty cool to see.

We decided to head to the Hoover Dam and take the kids to see the bridge. Brent and I had been days prior, but we knew the kids would love seeing the massive bridge that was just built. And no, we did not take the Dam Tour...it is freaking EXPENSIVE.

Hahaha....Brent is is Arizona and I am in Nevada. Corny I know :)

So, we decided since we didn't take the Dam Tour, we would take a ride to Kingman, Arizona. It was about an hour away. So we headed to Kingman not knowing what we would really do there, but ended up finding an awesome museum about Route 66. We spent a little over an hour there, drove down Route 66 for a while, and then ate dinner before returning to Vegas.

Of course, the boys did spot a train outside the museum that they had to watch for a minute.

.....more pics coming.....