Road Trip Day 15 - Church, kittens, catching up with old friends and making new ones

We had the best day today catching up with more friends from Oregon and getting to do church with them. It was seriously the best way to wrap up this latest adventure that we’ve been on and we are looking forward to coming back in a couple weeks and seeing all these amazing humans again (why didn’t I get a group pic before we left?)

Chad had a great message for us (although having this cutie pie next to me was a little distracting).

They had fun little goody bags to keep the kids occupied, which Kenton was very into.

He also made some new friends, including Captain Jack the cat, and had fun playing with boys his age after being on the road with his sisters for two weeks.

And all the kids loved playing with the new kittens in Jason and Leslie’s shop.

I’m pretty sure Jenica will want us to bring one home with us when we come back next month.

Amanda cooked us a delicious steak dinner and we all ate together before hitting the road for the 6 hour drive to Denver. (Thank you so much Lands and Kushpaugh’s for your hospitality.)

The kids played video games together in the backseat for a couple of hours and it warmed my heart to hear them laughing and getting along. These trips really help to build their friendship and bond with eachother. Built in best friends for life...

Rob and I both took turns driving the rental car, which had some pretty cool features we had never used before. It would dim the brights automatically when we approached other cars, then turn them back up after we passed. The cruise control would automatically slow to the vehicle speed in front of us if we came up on another car, until you changed lanes to pass, then it would speed back up to the set cruising speed. It would even correct steering to stay within the lines if you started to drift off the road. 

I listened to my audio book to pass time and was happy when we finally arrived at our hotel and could all crash for the night.

Tomorrow Rob will work from the hotel before our flight at 3:30pm.