Road Trip - part 4 – Alycia & Trevor

Thursday, August 11, 2025

We got to Alycia’s late on Thursday night, July 24 and no one stayed up visiting. Mom and I wanted to attend the new Redlands temple which is blocks from Alycia’s house so we got up early and did a session before anyone got up.

After enjoying a nice breakfast we then headed to what looked to me like St George’s old town. We walked through a couple of shops and a famous candy store and ended up at this cool museum. A lot of these old museums are converted houses but this one was actually built with the purpose of being a museum but the building itself is a museum. It was built in 1938 and was funded by Hortense McQuarrie Odlum. It is run by the daughters of Utah Pioneers. It has a lot of fascinatging stuff in it.

The kids really wanted to spend the day at the pool and that was just fine with me. Alycia was telling us that this was a very old pool and is the pool Trevor used to go to when he was a kid. You would never know it, it has been well maintained. It even had a nice water slide.

We parked our stuff at a table under a nice sun shade and promptly dove into the water. It was a great day with the kids.

We all went down the water slide a few times and then we had to check out the diving boards.

Sawyer and I had planned to make simultanous dives. I dove in and when I came up there was Sawyer walking off the board. I was quite surprised because he didn’t seem at all scared of diving. If you take a close look at the picture, you can see Sawyer talking to the life guard. Apparantly you can’t dive off the board with water wings on.

In the shallow end they have two dolphins that are chained to the bottom of the pool. It is a genius idea and the kids love it. Sawyer kept daring me to tip him off the dolphin. I had to get pretty aggressive in order to dump him until, once again, the life gaurd made us calm down. The kids loved playing on the dolphins.

Once everyone started getting totally exhausted we finally headed home.

When mom was in Arizona watching Bens kids she picked up some little kits for making catapults out of tongue depressors. She never got the chance to build them with Bens kids so she brought them to Utah.

The kids were very excited to build them, but once they were built they shot the little puff balls straight up in the air. That was a little dissappointing we figured out that we could hold the catapult and aim it. It was fun while it lasted but the novelty quickly wore off.

We got up Saturday morning and had a relaxing breakfast and then got ready to head home. Before we left, Sawyer played a couple of songs for us on his guitar. He is getting pretty good.

The kids love to chase us as we drive off, but the road we would normally take is kind of busy, so, rather than have the kids run down the busy road, I left out the back way. The kids gave out after half a block but as we were coming around the opposit side of the block we saw a mini farmers maket in someones driveway. It was basically a garage sale for produce. Of course we had to stop.

We had our eye on some nice looking tomatos but as we were visiting with the lady she said we could go check out her yard. Everything she was selling grew in her back yard. Even the eggs. They had this huge chicken coop and tons of produce growing. When we went back to the front, our tomatos were all sold.

We ended up buying some scruffy tomatos (that still tasted delicous) and some cucumbers.

So that was our road trip. It was a bit exhausting but what a great trip.

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According to Phys.org there is no direct evidence 

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