Day 2: Salt Lake City and RV pick up

We didn't wake up too early in mountain time, but early enough to be annoyed that the breakfast didn't open until 8 on the weekend.  Afterwards, we walked a couple of blocks to the trolley stop to downtown.

When we got there, we had just missed the one we needed.  The boys made rap music videos while waiting.

We were taking the trolley to Temple Square and to walk around downtown.  It seemed like the thing to do in Salt Lake City.  We were able to go into the visitor centers and the buildings.  Here is our lighting expert taking a picture of the lighting.  He was impressed. 

 I let James have my old phone.  I thought he would enjoy taking pictures of the trip and then he could make videos to keep him busy.  This turns out not to be the best idea.  Luckily, it has a bad battery and James kept turning off airplane mode and not keeping it charged so it didn't last long.  Its funny that he knows exactly how to take a selfie.

There were a lot of very nice people to answer questions and take pictures!

James did set up this picture though.  I feel it was a tribute to my detailed itinerary 

Really, we were done about 10, but dragggggged it out until 11 when it was socially acceptable to eat lunch.  Juliet and Mark actually went to an organ recital and the rest of us took the kids back to the hotel to swim.  But we did have plans for the afternoon.

 

Don't we look a little scared?  We went to pick up our RV.  Really, it went pretty quickly considering they were letting us take a very expensive piece of equipment that we didn't know how do drive.  Want to know how that went?  So, after we went to pick up the RV we need to go to WalMart.  Tony and Juliet were going to follow us there.  Mark and I were sitting at a light when all of a sudden, another Cruise America RV passed us and hit our driver side mirror so that one mirror out of two fell off.  Mark promptly ran it over.  What was there to do but continue to WalMart and I won't name the guilty party.  ;)  

Getting to WalMart was another ordeal.  Navigating the freeways in the RV was not easy and we ended up on one way streets.  We finally get to the walmart and turns out there is a parking garage for it.  This is pretty much the worst nightmare in as a new RV driver.  WalMart, well, that is always a nightmare and then our carts wouldn't go to our RV because of a safety mechanism.  I was so frustrated and tired, and HOT, and LATE to dinner.  And that is when the Johnsons had arrived.  We ate and then my sister bought everyone ice cream so it all worked out...