Days 2 and 4 ... (I know today is Day 6)

DAY 2

Our second day, when we drove through A LOT! And I slept A LOT too! :) As did Amy. ;)





As mom said, we stopped at Taco Time and it started raining!



I think Mom forgot to write, though, that we stopped at a car show! It was pretty awesome! My favourites are the Pontiac Trans Am and the Chevy Nova! I have to confess, I really don't know anything about cars any more than what I see on Overhaulin' but I can certainly appreciate the beauty of it all.









And they even had the Hannibal Lector of cars!



It was a beautiful drive!



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DAY 4

We left Uncle Phil's house and traveled to a nearby Copper Mining area called Kennecott Utah Copper's Bingham Canyon Mine.



It's pretty incredible that this is even possible, let alone has been done for more than one hundred years!



The way they describe it is this:
In 1906, the copper mine was a mountain. It started in 1903, but the first steam shovels came to Bingham Canyon in 1906 and began stripping waste rock from the sides of a mountain to reach deposits of low-grade copper ore. It is the largest man-made excavation on earth! Today, the mine is 3/4 mile deep and about two and a half miles from the widest points at the top of the pit. The whole thing can be seen by astronauts from space!

Mom had taken Steve here when he was a little boy - they used to live in Utah - and I guess she has a picture of him next to the very large tire on display so I got an updated picture for them. This tire is one of the tires used on the giant rigs used to mine the canyon! It's huge!







I like this picture below!



After that, we went to the Great Salt Lake! It was ... great.



And of course after we looked for a Taco Time or Costco, because what is a trip without Costco pizza?



It really is breathtakingly beautiful here. All the places we've been really.



That's all for now. And I just realized... I didn't blog Day 3!! Ugh! Which was the whole point of this trip! But, you know what, I'm being summoned to the car right now because we were supposed to leave for Yellowstone again this morning at 8Aam! But that didn't happen. (Others weren't ready.) But it's a good thing we were only planning on doing driving things in Yellowstone today because it's RAINING HARD! I even heard a little thunder!

Day 3 to come later tonight.
Lizz