Vacation - Part 1

I have been holding off on making a post because I like my blog in chronological order. I have some really great pictures from our first day of Spring Break that I cannot find on my memory cards. I am sure Matt or I downloaded them and put them in a very appropriate place - I just can't find them right now. So, I will just randomly post them when I find them.
We had a great spring break. Two weeks before spring break we made the decision to take a trip. Matt did a lot of the planning and decided we would go to The Grand Canyon, on to Las Vegas, and then do some more sight seeing on the way home.
On our first day of travel we made it to Amarillo. Of course, we had to eat at The Big Texan. We had to wait a while to get a table. And then when we did, Jackson had a dirty diaper. I guess he wanted to keep with the Big Texan theme - everything is bigger in Texas, because he surprised me with the biggest, dirtiest diaper I have every seen! I made the mistake of trying to change him in the front seat of the car, and after 20 minutes of wrestling, diaper changing, finding another pair of clothes, and then me getting all cleaned up, we made our way back to the table. You would have thought I would have lost my appetite by now, but after two years of motherhood - not such a big deal. And, I had been traveling all day and hadn't eaten in a really long time. I don't know if I was just really hungry or the food was really that great. We had the best Chicken Fried Steak I have ever eaten. For entertainment during our meal, a guy decided to take the Big Texan Challenge and try to eat a 72 oz. steak. It was the biggest steak I have ever seen. When we left he only had 30 minutes left and hadn't even eaten a fourth of the steak, not to mention the salad, baked potato, or shrimp! I will have to check their website to see if he was able to eat it within the hour time limit. CRAZY!

The next day we drove through snow in New Mexico. It wasn't really sticking or making the roads hazardous so it made for a pretty drive. I really don't have any great things to report that we saw in New Mexico other than the what seemed like hundreds of billboards for truck stops that made you think they were going to be really great, but when you finally get there you discover it is a gas station with a great selection of "Authentic" Indian jewelery, moccasins, shot glasses, dream catchers, T-shirts and lots of other fantastic souvenirs.