Mesa

Recorded April 28, 2022

We’ve been trying to get to Mesa to visit Ben and Sharley since last November but between one thing or another the trip keeps getting postponed. On the weekend of March 19 we finally made it. Mark was very excited because it is one more state that he has now visited.

It was a total coincidence but that same weekend Justin and his kids came for a week long visit as well. Kira stayed home for the weekend so she could play in a concert and arrived on Monday. I think this might be the first time Justin has travelled alone with his kids. Kira has done it many times. We had planned to go on a few hikes but we didn’t have time for all of that so Saturday we visited the newly renovated Mesa temple. We were going to come for the last day of the open house but instead we ended up making a trip to Utah so we could attend Aunt Nola’s funeral.

It was sad we missed the open house but I’m glad we were able to make the funeral.

The temple grounds are lovely and they had many interactive things for the kids to do and the visitor’s center but perhaps the best part was the BYU Creamery. They didn’t have BYU chocolate milk but we all enjoyed the ice cream.

For dinner we tried to go to this very cool looking barbecue place but the wait was way too long so we ended up going to a Farm place that we have been to many times. You can't go wrong there. 

It also had a pretty long line so I watched the kids while the parents bought the food. 

They weren't very impressed with my babysitting skills but the kids had a lot of fun in the dirt.