Life after vacation

We've been back from vacation for two weeks now.  Fine, I'll unpack.

Vacation was perfect.  Kenny and I, along with the kids and nephew Max, drove to Colorado for a couple days, then on to Arizona for a few.  Next was Utah and then back to Colorado, finding fun all along the way.  Almost everything we did (besides eat and sleep in hotels) was free or costed a daily park pass fee.  And almost everything we did exceeded our expectations.  Every hotel check-in was smooth, we had zero car troubles and four of our five vacation crew were of legal age to drive, so it wasn't too much behind-the-wheel time for any of us.

Here are some vacation photos, so now it's like you basically went with us:

We took a selfie in a cave.  Without a selfie stick.  And it only took one try.  Biggest miracle of the trip!
  

This was at the first gas station we stopped at in CO.  Kenny took one look at it, said, "Nope, we're going somewhere else," and turned the car around.

These are out of order.  Back to the caves and the things Kenny made us climb into...

Bishop Castle, Pueblo, CO

We'll title this 'The Long Walk Back.'

4 Bigley's in 4 states. If you look closely, you will see that Mae is in ALL of the states.  Overachiever!

This is where we spent Kyler's 16th birthday.

Making friends in Winslow.

Mae at the Grand Canyon.  She spent much of the trip trying to give me a heart attack.

And now back to reality.  Good news: I got the job I wanted.  I am the newest Preloader at UPS.  The supervisor called me on Kyler's birthday for a second interview.  This is how I learned that I have better phone reception standing in a canyon in rural Arizona than I have at my own house.  Or driveway.  Or really anywhere in Nebraska. 

I am on-call for this week.  Thanks to Amazon deeming this 'Prime Week', they are simply too busy to train me.  I did get a shift Thursday so I guess that will be my official first day, unless they call me in sooner.  The job has been described to me as "a 4-hour workout that you get paid for."  Normally, I would be ecstatic about that, but the way I've been living my life this summer (eat EVERYTHING, run NEVER) has me worried that I will just fall over dead.  Guess there's only one way to find out!  If I never blog again, you will know what the outcome was.