We continued our drive heading northwest through New Mexico. The land was mostly flat, then there was this huge rock sticking out of the ground. We thought it looked pretty cool so we pulled over and took a picture. I had to put on my big lens to be able to get a close-up.
We got all the way to the Four Corners monument, and found out that they charge $5 a person (over a certain age, I think it was 5 years old) and they ONLY TAKE CASH! We don’t carry cash, so the lady told us to drive 5 miles back up the road from where we came from to use an ATM to get some cash. So after going back and getting cash we went back to the monument.
The clouds looked ominous, but it didn’t start raining until after we got pictures at the monument.
Jeremy was upset when we let Ethan take a picture of us in front of the Lubbock, Texas temple and that we didn’t let him take a picture of us too, so we decided to let him take a picture of us at Four Corners.
The wind picked up while Jeremy was trying to take a picture of us and it started to sprinkle as we went back to the van. We got the kids loaded up and were changing diapers when the lady from the entrance drove in to tell us they were now closed. We told her we would leave as soon as all the kids were buckled, and that’s what we did. We drove back towards where we got the cash and saw this cute little LDS church building. It was so TINY!
We had just driven away when some of the kids announced that they needed to go potty again. So we found a gas station and while Kyle was taking kids in shifts, to the bathroom, I made sandwiches for everyone for dinner. Then we hit the road again. We drove pretty much for the rest of the night.
We filled up again in Monticello, Utah, and we drove by the temple to see it in the dark, but we didn’t get out or take any pictures. Most of the kids were asleep anyway. So we just continued on our way home. We finally made it home about 3am.