Boise--31 Years Later

Amanda flew into Casper last Wednesday night, and Matt and Crystal were due to fly in on Thursday night. Only problem for them was that their flight was overbooked, and they got bumped. Turned out ok, as they were able to get onto a Boise flight, and not have to get into a car the next morning to drive with us to Boise. So far, so good. Thursday night we were again checking the weather reports, and saw that it was supposed to snow some 10 inches on Friday in the area that we had to drive through. We decided that we probably wouldn't be able to go. Problem: Matt and Crystal were in Boise. Friday morning, after again checking the weather reports, we decided to go ahead and try it, and threw everything into the car and headed out. It was a snowy, windy trip, but the roads were not slippery, and we made it through fine.

We had a great Saturday and Sunday visiting with Richard's brothers and folks, and cousins getting to know each other who had only met once or twice in their lives--many years ago. We missed having Lancy, Kathryn and Nikki there, but had a good time together.

Sunday night Caleb checked the weather reports again, though we weren't planning to leave until Tuesday morning. They looked worse than they had a couple of days earlier--10-14 inches of snow expected. After much debate about the snow coming and the thought of getting stuck in Boise and not being able to return to Casper for a few extra days, we decided at 9:00 last night to start the trip back a day early, so once again threw everything together and loaded up the cars, leaving there at 10:00pm, and arriving here in Casper at 11:30 today. It was another snowy, windy trip, but thankfully we made it through just fine. Haven't checked the weather reports today to see if they got the 10 inches they expected, but we are glad to be safely home.