It's Going to Be An Annual Event

My dad has been wanting Nan and I to go down to Sanpete County, Utah on Memorial Day so that we know where all the family grave sites are.  So this year we took Dad along with us, and picked up my other sister, Fredee, in Brigham City, and went on what will become an annual event.  I told a few people at work what I was doing and they found it interesting, but were quite puzzled by it.  Maybe it's more of a Mormon/Utah thing.  We needed Dad along because he financed everything, and he's full of information and entertainment.  We needed Fredee because she loves to drive and she knows the ancestors.  Nan was the driver from Boise to Brigham and back.  I'm not really sure what my job was, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

On the way down, Dad introduced us to the malts and onion rings at The Pit Stop, just off the exit after Burley.  We'll definitely make a Pit Stop again.  When we arrived in Brigham we went to the cemetery which is surrounded by lilac bushes.  It's beautiful on Memorial Day.  We took care of a baby nephew's grave, Ethan.  We also did a drive-by of the construction of the new Brigham temple.  You really can't help but do a drive-by because it is located right in the middle of town, on Main Street.  The other drive-by we always do is pass our old house on Cherry Drive.  Someday we'll go to the door and see if we can go inside.

The last order of business in Brigham was a 3 o'clock lunch at Maddox.  It's my favorite place to eat in the world.  You'd think it wouldn't be busy at that time, but it was packed.  Dad had invited his sisters to meet us, so we had a great visit with Aunt Carol, Uncle Frank, and Aunt Marc.  They were all doing well and we had a great time catching up.  Carol and Frank had forgotten their hearing aids though, and it was quite a comedy.  Maddox is noisy anyway, and the seven of us sitting at a table in the middle of everything were yelling at each other.  I think most of the customers there were just concentrating on their rolls with raspberry butter, steaks, and pie.  They probably didn't even notice.