Crossroads of the West

Today was fun, Steven flew for the first time. He is the Youth Governor for Idaho for 2010, and today began the national conference for all youth governors in Washington D.C. He had to be at the airport in Salt Lake by 6 a.m. in order to get to D.C. by this afternoon for orientation. Kerry got some photos of the governor going through security. The interesting thing is that today Veronica and Kyle flew home from their annual Outer Banks trip, so they were also in the Salt Lake airport, and probably crossed paths with Steven somewhere over the midwest. They had the same connections - Chicago departing and Denver returning.

And then, because it truly is the crossroads of the west, Marisa's friend Doug from the wiffleball game was also flying into SLC this morning returning from our favorite destination, HNL. I wouldn't be surprised if Sarah was also in the airport today, since SLC is her home base for her airline job.

It's also JC and Norma's 60th anniversary today, so truly momentous is this date in Park family travel history. 10 years ago today we were in Yellowstone for their 50th anniversary, when Adam was a brand new high school graduate who was still 17, the age Steven is now.

We had some time for a Sunday drive on the way home, so we stopped by the Utah Capitol Bldg. where Emily learned that her lot in life as the youngest child when all of the older children are gone is to get dragged around by her aged parents looking for things like the Mormon_Meteor. It wasn't there, it was vandalized and moved from the Capitol, so instead we found the Mormon Battalion monument and the name of Great, great, great (great, great?) Grandpa James Pollock Park from whence the J comes for all of the boys middle names.
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