The second day started out pretty normal. I woke up at about 5am. I was not used to having to sleep with the Hawkinson Family Circus all in the same small room. I have two girls who not only talk in their sleep but also fight. I (no kidding) broke up two sleeping talking fights in the middle of the night!! TO FUNNY! They were both sitting up yelling things at each other that didn't make a lick of sense. However, they were both very serious at what they THOUGHT they were saying.
At 5am the city of Ogden is very much awake. I took the dogs on a very peaceful walk knowing this would probably be the only peaceful time of my day. We all ate breakfast and started loading the vehicles only to discover we had a missing cat. Of course, it had to be the cat we are trasporting for our friend, Tim. After a 20 minute frantic search of the large hotel, my daughter found Hector huddling in a corner behind the pop machine. We went back to the place we left the horses. Surprisingly, we found it pretty easily considering we had to go through a bunch of road construction that wasn't there the night before. The horses loaded like champs and we were on our way.
As we traveled down the highway toward Colorado, we couldn't help but notice all the freaky road signs. Every mile or so, there would be a road sign saying something about high winds, blowing snow, death, destructions or mayhem. There weren't many houses to be seen. Maybe one every 100 miles or so. FREAKY. Definately did not want to breakdown there. It was like something out of a horror movie. When we finally reached the Colorado/Utah border, the landscape completely changed. of Utah to the lush green, grass and trees of Colorado. The dramatic change occured in about a 1/2 of the Colorado border!
We spent the night in Montrose Colorado. It is a truly beautiful place! I have complete changed my mind about where I want to retire! If I ever disappear, look for me in Montrose, Colorado. I will be up in the mountains with my buddy's dad, Willard or shopping with his mom, June. We (of course) got lost finding the stables for our horses (DAMN GOOGLE MAP QUEST) so it was after dark before we got checked into our hotel. It wasn't to bad if you don't need a light in the bathroom (we just used one of our flashlights since the front desk person had no lightbulbs). The resturant next door was awesome! The place was called something like the Red Barn and looked questionable but we were just too tired to care. We were pleasantly surprised at how great the food AND service was (even though I did find a fly in my salad). We happily went back to the hotel with full stomaches. My good mood would not stay that way for long.
The mistake of the day actually occured while we were pleasantly eating our fabulous dinner. I decided to put the dogs in the back of our horsetrailer while we ate. The idea was so they could play instead of being confined in their kennels. They played alright. They played in some of the horse poop I didn't see in the trailer. Not to mention, they added a few turds to the horses!! They were absolutely covered in crap!!!! I can handle the smell of horse poop but not dog poop. I ended up giving them both baths (in the bathroom with no light) by the light of a small flashlight!! My hands were prunes by the time I was done and I was completely soaked. We couldn't get the smell of flowers, wet dog and poop out of the room no matter what we tried! It was horrible! It made your eyes water!! That night we slept with the windows open and the heater blasting. My youngest daughter, Layney, kicked me in the throat all night long. I figured I had it coming at that point!!!! ha ha