The Life and Times of Bert and Kelli Millett

Jacob Lake and the North Rim

• The photo opt with Jacob (the first of many)



• Setting up the tent trailer at 1:00 AM in a day use area



• Eating Jacob Lake Inn cookies for breakfast



• Cape Royal and Angel’s Window



• Watching Jane react to her first view of the Grand Canyon



• Finding the most gorgeous primitive campsite in the Kaibab Forest



• Sleeping in (me, not Bert) after two long nights in a row



• Pipe Springs National Monument (we’d highly recommend this stop)

• Showering



• Separate rooms



• Homemade Enchiladas



• Beating the Patricks every game night



• Hiking Timp with Bert while Kate watched the kids



• Getting thwarted in our attempt to summit Timp by treacherous snow fields



• Eating at Beto’s and horchata



• Running Kate’s neighborhood



• Trying not to kill myself while running with Katie’s dog, Scarlett



• Taking an evening walk with the Patricks



• Café Rio and horchata



• Tracking down a pediatrician in Provo to get Jacob’s double ear infection taken care of

• Seeing the sites on Temple Square



• Forgetting our camera so we don’t have any documentation except what Nathan took on his phone



• Music and the Spoken Word



• Running into dear friends and family



• Picnic lunch on the lawn



• Having Kate and Nate with us



• Attending a “missionary” ward



• Visiting Grandma Nichols and Jerry in Layton



• Bert leaving his wallet in Layton

• Staying with the Rebers and seeing so much of their family



• Reber cousins everywhere



• Jacob Hamblin’s home and another photo opt with Jacob on his saddle (don’t tell the tour guide lady)



• Getting to know Zion’s so we’ll be pro’s for next time



• Looking up



• Emerald Pools hike



• Ice cream after the Emerald Pools hike



• The GEORGEOUS drive out, including a mile-long tunnel



• Junior Ranger badges
  
  
  
  
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• Deciding to go there on a whim



• Getting more Jacob Lake Inn Cookies



• Racing across Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon



• Starbursts for anyone who beat Mom across the brigde



• Camping at the 10X



• Coming out on top of our National Parks Pass purchase



• Eating a scrumptious breakfast at El Tovar with well-behaved children



• Seeing a two California Condors (Finally! We’ve only been here half a dozen times)



• Riding the shuttle out to Hermit’s Rest



• Planning a hike down Hermit’s Rest



• Packing up everything in 20 minutes or less

If you can’t tell already, we had a great time. Even though we resembled the Lampoon’s Family Vacation, we loved the tent trailer and are thinking we need one of our own. We had such a good time that 10 days of National Parks may become a yearly tradition of some sort.