Boise weekend trip

We crammed a lot into our 3-day weekend in the Boise area. When we got to Scott's house Saturday afternoon, he offered to let us take his 67 Mustang to Will's 50th high schol reunion. Will was in heaven to be driving what was once his Mustang until Scott bought it from us to help finance our mission. The reunion went so much better than Will had expected. Everyone seemed so glad to see "Willie" again and had many good memories of him. He especially enjoyed seeing his old friend Mark Hoagland and his wife Marie. (He used to date Marie's sister.)

But on the way home from the reunion our brakes completely disappeared. Will shifted down and coasted to a stop on the side of the road. We called Will, Jr. first since we were pretty close to his house. He didn't answer, so we left a message explaining our situation. Then we called Scott. He had already gone to bed since he gets up so very early to go to work (and they had had an emergency need of him Sunday, even tho he had gotten the day off). But he grabbed some brake fluid and got there unbelievably fast. (He was either anxious to get back to bed or to be sure his Mustang was OK.) And right after he drove up, so did Will. (That's one way for them to get to see each other.) Once the fluid started circulating the brakes were fine and we drove over to Will's house and visited like crazy until midnight. Ally finally fell asleep on Will's lap, but Duke never did.

We spent the night at Scott's house and I woke up the next morning at 6:00 am to see Matt playing a computer game. It was so good to be with Matt and Scottie again.
Shawn showed up before church and we all went together. Scott and I both got up at the same time to bear our testimonies. He started off with a little bit of humor, saying that of people's top 10 fears, public speaking was number one and DEATH was number two. But despite his discomfort he did a wonderful job of sharing some special feelings with his family (as well as another little joke about reading 1st Nephi about 30 times with his family.)

During Priesthood meeting, we all met with the Aaronic Priesthood leaders and boys (Carrie and her parents came, too) and Scott ordained his son a deacon. Oh, and I also got to watch Matt clean up the Sacrament things after Sacrament Meeting.

After dinner we played Clue (Matt's choice)and he would have won, but Scott had apparently not showed him one of his weapon cards earlier when Matt was suggesting who had killed whom. (We were pretty busy talking and explaining the game to the newbies) so Cindy wound up winning.

The next morning we did some shopping together, took pictures and then Will and I drove to Emmett to visit his sister Cathy. After that we hurried off to Mountain Home for his sister Melva's 70th birthday party cookout. There was a ton of food, lots of visiting and then we were off to the races again (or rather off to Blackfoot) because we were working in the temple Tuesday morning.

We sure crammed a lot of experiences and special memories into that weekend.