We woke up about 6am and drove all day through never ending Nebraska. We stopped for the night in Sidney, NE where our friends Alicia and Trevor, were kind enough to let us stay (and shower!). We got there about 5pm which was nice to just be able to relax for the evening.
The following morning we left around 7am in hopes of making it to Boise late that night, only 12 hours remaining. We were finally getting a little better gas mileage and were so close to our destination and being out of the truck!!
About 4pm we were passing through Evanston, WY. Nate and I were having a silly conversation about something when he goes, "Oh...I just missed my exit." I wasn't paying any attention and figured, oh well we'll hit the next one. Until a sign told us the next one was 37 miles and our gas light dinged. We crossed the border into Utah, and our truck sputtered and died. WORST. FEELING. EVER. (except bed bugs in your hotel!). Luckily, we were smart and signed up for AAA before we left, though we didn't print ID cards because we didn't ACTUALLY think we'd need them! No problem we thought, we'll just look them up on Nate's smartphone. Except he of course had NO SERVICE to make calls or access the internet. Awesome.
We were able to sloooowly look up the information on my old reliable not-so-smart-phone and make the call to AAA to get us some gas. The "20 minute wait" turned into an hour before the gas man showed up to save us. I was slightly annoyed as I really had to go to the bathroom, but I think Nate and I were both good sports about it and made the best of our situation, joking and laughing as much as we could with our screaming baby. And I peed on the side of the highway for the first time in many years! :)
When the gas man arrived he asked, "So how did this happen?" Nate replied, "I missed my exit" to which the gas man responded, "All 3 of them?!" pretty sure he thought we were the biggest idiots. We were given $20 worth of gas, enough for us to turn around, drive BACK to Evanston, get gas there, and THEN drive on into Utah. Only running 2 1/2 hours behind schedule.
Once in Utah we met up with Nate's little brother and his fiancee as well as my little brother and his girlfriend. We all went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner which was delicious. We didn't get done there until almost 9:30pm and luckily Aaron's fiancee was nice enough to lend us a guestroom in her house for the night. We very much appreciated that since we were BEAT after 4 days of driving.
Saturday morning we stopped in Layton on our way up to Boise to visit Nate's 92 year old grandpa Oren and introduce him to Spencer who is named after him (Spencer Oren).
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