Yesterday afternoon we drove down to North Salt Lake to spend the evening and overnight with Heather and her family. The occasion was that grandson Michael Brown was performing in three one-act plays at the Jr. High School. That was plenty of reason to leave Pocatello and warm up by ten degrees in the Salt Lake Valley. As an added bonus, Heather planned to open up their pool and have a pool party for Danielle’s soccer team late Saturday morning.

The drive down was completely uneventful (as it should be) and perhaps the Utah drivers have realized the cost of gasoline (currently about $3.70 a gallon in this area) and many have slowed down. That would be good as sometimes the traffic is way to hectic for people like us who drive in southeastern Idaho where a five cars on the freeway constitutes a traffic jam.

Michael was in all three plays produced on Friday evening. I’ve put one picture up from each of the three plays. He is a budding thespian, I think. He did a great job of projecting his lines and speaking not quite so fast. The middle play, “Great Ceasar!”, was the best of the three plays, although all three were just right for Jr. High School aged students. They seem to have a good drama teacher who also helps them to have fun doing the plays.

Heather’s household is busy! It almost makes me out of breath how much is going on around this house. I’m sure our house was just as busy when we had all the kids at home with kids in high school, middle school, and elementary school, but memories are somewhat vague (probably due to age-related leaking gray matter). This morning Ty is out cleaning the pool with the help of Michael and Danielle. Stephanie was called into work, Chris must still be sound asleep, and Heather left about 6 this morning to to go a State track meet in Provo to support a young man who doesn’t have a lot of family support.

Later this morning we’ll drive back to Pocatello and get ready to go the Idaho Falls Temple. We’ll attend a Chapel meeting at 5:15 and then do an endowment session at 6 p.m. It’s been a fun visit at Heather’s and a nice prelude to a busy weekend. I’ve got a Priesthood Meeting at 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, followed by Branch Conference in Arbon (about 45 miles south of Pocatello) at 10. This is a fun Branch Conference as they always have a Branch potluck dinner after the meetings … and we eat really well.