We left Bryce and headed out for a long drive (285 miles) to a stopover in Salt lake City. We drove for a while through Utah and stopped in a small town called Torrey. We got lunch at a joint called Slackers Burger Joint. The owner was there and her daughter was working in the back. We ordered some sandwiches, Samantha got mac and cheese wedges and then had some homemade milkshakes. Well, I had a shake. Bryce had a root beer float and Sam had caramel sundae and Teresa enjoyed a blueberry and raspberry sundae. They were delicious and we enjoyed chatting with the owner about the town, population around 75 full-time.
We arrived in Salt Lake City around in the middle of rush hour, which was not that bad, comparatively. I dropped the kids off with Teresa to enjoy the water rides and lazy river we had promised the children they could play in all day yesterday, and headed to the Super Target to restock for dinner. It took longer at Target than expected but I was loading the RV when Teresa contacted me on the two-way radio (a must-have on this trip) to inform me that when they arrived a the gate they were told that the water rides were closing in 4 minutes and that it really didn’t seem wise to pay $35 a head for 240 seconds of wet ‘n wild fun! So I hurried back to the campsite and made dinner.
Our RV park was just that, an amusement park called Lagoon. You know how some amusement parks have animal exhibits? Do you know where they put the animals after hours? Doesn’t that sound like the perfect spot for an RV park? The smell of the savannah permeated our spot and was interrupted for only short spurts by the charcoal in our grill.
I picked up some DVD box sets of Everybody Loves Raymond, Teresa and the kid’s favorite show, and we watched them late into the night. We were awoken only once by the roar of a lion.
We were not that impressed with this stop-over. It was voted the worst of the trip so far.
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