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Show '4 c - " they didn't already have, up to date. While he did that I asked my brothers-in-law lots of questions about what they are doing now that they are retired, how the kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids are coming along and other dull questions to keep things flowing a bit. We were invited to dinner at one of my husband's niece's home. It was very nice and it was good to see some of the kids, grandkids, and great-grands, great-grands, too. My biggest problem prob-lem was trying to remember all of the names. One of my husband's hus-band's sisters in Arizona has ten children and the other has nine, plus a few Indian children, chil-dren, who call them Mom and Dad. Of course, all of the children chil-dren and grandchildren were there, but I could not remember all of the names so I spoke to only those with whom I could get eye contact. When we came home we took a different route than we did when we went down. It was fascinating all of the way. We stayed the night in Moab which was a fun place and then came home through Price. All in all it was a very nice trip and I would do it again in a minute. This time of year is great in Arizona but in Summer Sum-mer you want to stay indoors a by Murcella Walker We recently returned from a trip to Arizona to visit my husband's sisters. It was basically basi-cally a genealogy trip but we saw some nice scenery in the process. What I loved most was that there was hardly any snow. Up on the very high hills there were some spots of snow, but otherwise it was like a nice warm Spring season. I loved it. Bah, Humbug! The first thing we heard on the weather forecast when we got home was that snow was headed our way. Then they had the audacity to say that we were still quite below the amount of snow that we need to make it through the summer season. I could not believe that a trained weatherman would have the audacity to say such a thing so soon after the snow on our front lawn just barely melted. melt-ed. It had been there since November No-vember and had never melted at all until last week. Of course, the front lawn is facing the North and has not seen the sun in person since last fall. The houses across the street which are all facing South have not had snow on their lawns for a long time. Anyway, it was shirt sleeve weather in Arizona and it felt really re-ally good. You know those big, tall windmills that are all over the place now-a-days? Well, they have them in Arizona, too. So Jerry's brother-in-law drove us out to look at them right up close and personal. They look very tall from a distance, but from close up they are monstrous. They make you feel like you are an ant on the ground below Timpanogos. Up in the highlands of Arizona there are thousands of pine trees. It is beautiful. Some people try to make you think that Arizona is all sagebrush and desert, but in reality it has some of the most beautiful forests for-ests that I have ever seen. The forests go on and on for miles and miles. You are driving on a two lane highway, one lane each way, except in the few places that two lanes are put in where there are corners cor-ners off the highway that lead up to houses where people live. In fact, my husband has a sister, Nancy, who lives at Payson, Arizona which is up among all those pines and it is a beautiful place. On the other hand, he has a sister, Mary Jean, who lives in Snowflake, Arizona and it is a pretty place, too, but is more desert-like than Payson. There is a lovely LDS Temple at Snowflake, too. Anyway, day after day my husband was seated next to one of his sisters helping them get all of the Walker genealogy lot or get an air conditioned hat to wear all the time. Did you know that in Arizona you do not need to have a license plate on the front of your car? They have one license and it is on the rear of the vehicle. I did not like it because another one of my hobbies is keeping track of license plates to see which state we see the most while traveling. Anyway, we had a great trip and I recommend it to anyone who likes trees, mountains and lots of greenery green-ery in the very early spring. I bet it is beautiful in the fall and maybe in the winter, also. However, try not to go to Arizona Ari-zona in the summer if you can avoid it. You know why, I'm sure! |
