June 30 - July 5 2008 Alger family reunion

Marks mom side of the family does a family reunion every other year. This year we went to Price Utah. We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Price. On Monday we left about noon and we drove to Price which is about 3 hours from our home. When we arrived we got settled into our hotel and at 5:00 we went to a Price park and had dinner which was Cafe Rio salads. It was wonderful. We got to see all of Marks family that we had not seen for a while. Just a funny note Matthew decided he had to take his Ipod. At one point in the evening Matthew told mark that he had lost the Ipod somewhere. So Mark's uncle Norm decided to have everyone hand in hand lined up across the field so we could cover all of the field to look for the Ipod. After about 5 minutes Mark had a feeling to check his pockets. Guess what he found it in one of his many pockets in his shorts. After dinner we went on a tractor hay ride to a lady's home in Price and she has an amazing backyard with a fire pit, a play house and a huge play area. We did smores and the kids played for a couple of hours it was Great! On tuesday we went to the Helper Railroad and Mining Museum. Marks grandpa worked in the coal mines and his Uncle Phil and Uncle Norm worked there as well. It was fun to here the stories they had to tell about grandpa and we very infromative for the grandkids. In the museum there is a picture of Mark's grandpa with the men he worked with in the mines. That evening we had sandwiches and salads in Elmo where Marks mom is from and where the family grew up. Each of the children told stories about there time in Elmo and there memories of Grandpa and Grandma. It was a very spiritual experience and we all felt that we had inherited something great! After dinner we went to the Elmo cemetary for the grandkids to see where grandma and grandpa were buried and Kent. Marks moms brother that has died. It was very intresting Marks mom had taken flowers and spray bottles and rags for the kids to wash the gravestones and put flowers on them it was very touching. After that we went out to Great Grandpa Algers farm. We were able to get on the property and have Marks mom tell us about it and what she rememberd from her childhood. Wednesday we went to the Clevland LLoyd Dinosaur Quarry. You can actually go looking for dinosaur bones or fragments on the property and there are quite a few hiking trails you can go on. That afternoon I took the kids swimming at the hotel while mark studied. Then for dinner we went to a little drive in diner that you ate out side that we had hamburgers and shakes. The kids and mark also went and saw wall-e the new disney movie. Thursday all of Marks immediate family went to do a picnic at Old folks flat up Hunington canyon. While we were cooking Marks dad insisted that he wanted to go hike Pole canyon. He promised Marks mom that he would hike up for an hour and then turn around and come back. Mark took all the kids except for Jonah and I stayed with his mom to help cook. We cooked and played with a few of the kids that did not end up going with grandpa and we waited and waited and waited and none of them came back. Finally Brian marks brother went looking for them and come to find out Marks dad had fallen off the mountain and his nephew John and his wife had to help Ted down the Mountain. We ended up having to take him to the hospital but they said he hopefully will recover in time. That evening we went to a cousins dinner where the Grandma 's and Grandpa 's watch all of the grandkids and the adults get to go to dinner. It is always fun to go and talk like adults. Friday I ran a 10 k down Hunington canyon. We also had a family dinner and family pictures and games. Thanks Norm and Lauri and gang for the very fun reunion.