After putting in a half-day at the office on Wednesday, July 31 Bubbles and the Prince of Diminished Brightness drove from Denver to Salt Lake City, arriving at my mother's Taylorsville home in time to enjoy the 10 o'clock local news.
On Thursday morning, we took my mother on an excursion, around the old Taylorsville neighborhood where our mink ranch had been located. Our home on 4800 South had provided fuel for a recent fire. I took a couple of pictures of the aftermath. It doesn't appear that repairs have commenced.
We dropped into a retirement community in Sandy just in time for lunch and stopped by a second related independent living facility in Murray.
Thursday evening, Rachel and Ben arrived with 2/3 of their children after a long, somewhat less than scenic drive across I-80 from Lincoln, Nebraska.
On Friday, we were spectators of the dance performance of Rebecca, the other 1/3 of their children, at the conclusion of her ballet intensive workshop at BYU. After the performance, we had lunch at the Wilkinson Center, then took a hike on the east side of Mt. Timpanogos up to the first waterfall.
On Saturday we had a family service project around Mom's home, weeding flowers beds, washing windows and general cleaning. In the evening we enjoyed a round of miniature golf.
On Sunday morning, mother opened a box to show the girls a family heirloom - a doll that had belonged to my father's mother.
Becca and Eva modeled Mom's mink coats. Spencer joined them for a photo.
We attended the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's performance at the Conference Center and made a short walking tour of Temple Square and City Creek before the Terry family hopped back into their minivan for the journey back across scenic I-80. Deanna, Emily and I drove back home to Denver on Monday.
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