this weekend

we are in arizona now. a place called 'flagstaff'. it's dark, so i can't really see what it looks like, but sarah told me it's very pretty here. she has some friends who used to live here and she remembers visiting them. they took her and her brother david to the 'grand canyon'.. i've never seen a canyon. zack and sarah said we'll probably get to see it in the daytime someday.

on friday we dropped a load in tracy. it's near a place called stockton. sarah's grandma lived there when sarah was growing up. so did her aunt carolyn and uncle bob. i haven't met them yet. sarah lived there for a year when she was 13.

after we dropped our freight we had lunch and waited for sarah's cousin to pick us up at the terminal.
we stayed with marty and butch that night. marty is carolyn's daughter.
they had such a good time catching up and telling stories.
marty and butch have three dogs and one cat, two horses and a few birds. and a big rose garden. sarah said it reminds her of her aunt carolyn's roses.

that night zack got sick. he didn't sleep at all and spent a lot of time in the bathroom. i don't know what he was doing in there, but it didn't sound comfortable. sarah didn't sleep much either.
neither did i.

in the morning we picked up more cousins, bill and paula, and drove to the funeral. i had to stay in the car, but i heard that it was a very tearful gathering. lots of people came to give respect to keith and love to alice and their kids and grandkids. two friends spoke. and keith's son and grandson. they all loved him very very much. i wish i had been able to meet him.

zack hadn't really slept in 48 hours, so he had to leave during the service and lay down on a couch. they couldn't find him for a while. sarah was very happy when her cousin butch found him!

there was a reception afterward. sarah said that it was at the same place keith and alice had had their 50th anniversary party at. that was 5 years ago. sarah cried a lot that day. especially when she saw alice. at the reception alice grabbed sarah and proudly introduced her as her 'trucker niece'.. she got a real kick out of it. everybody did. sarah is not a very big person.

after the reception sarah's cousin carrie drove us to sarah's dad's house. all of sarah's brothers and sisters were able to be at the funeral. peter had to leave from there to fly on a plane back to his home in indiana. (sarah said we'll see indiana soon.) they all got to eat lunch together after church on sunday. sarah was very happy to be able to spend time with everyone. so was zack.

i didn't get to meet everyone. just papa (sarah's dad), dave and debbie's family, liz and chris' family, and sharon and ahsh's family. i like them a lot.

zack is driving now.