Ridiculously long drive home

We thought it would NEVER end. EVER. We left around 9:15 Oregon time and decided to drive through Bend. Beautiful drive...and took way longer than we thought possible. We made the usual stops but no more than 10 minutes at a time. When nature calls, you have to answer...and when I'm hungry, you have to feed me. It's just the way it is. Welcome to life with Jenny. This little cafe was in the middle of nowhere. Literally. We had to get out and switch drivers and pulled over at this place. There was NOTHING else around.
Except this little taxidermy station. It was one of those "things that are funny to me" moments so I had to get a picture.

And, here was another random little area we stopped to switch drivers and stretch our legs. Not exciting. The drive wasn't anything to write home about, but apparently it is blog-worthy.

The speed limit is 55 for a million mile long stretch of road. We went 65, but we can't afford speeding tickets so we didn't go above that. We stopped for some "real" food and gas in Burley, Idaho and checked out hotel prices because we were exhausted. We didn't budget for another $70 so Jeff got some caffeine and we went on our way again.

I chatted with my mom after that and she and my dad wanted us to stop, but we wanted to just get home. 15 hours later, my parents (THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU) got a room for us in Tremonton at the Hampton Inn. It was a little piece of heaven on earth. The perfect ending to our stupid long day. We were so close to being home, but it was 1 a.m. and we really couldn't go any longer. I heart the Tremonton Hampton Inn. It was classy and had an amazingly comfortable bed and it was clean and had a big shower and lots of hot water and yummy breakfast and noon checkout. We went straight to Maddie's baseball game after we checked out, then went grocery shopping, and dropped stuff off to Joey and Amy. I've never been so happy to get home at 4 p.m. on a Saturday.

Thanks to the Williams fam for the fabulous trip! It was a much needed break from life in SLC. We love you guys! Welcome home, Kyle!