Trip home and home of the Grovers

Well, all my posts about our two week trip to the States wouldn't be complete without telling the story of our lost luggage. When we landed in Salt Lake, by the time we got down to baggage claim our beautiful purple polka dot suitcase was going around the carousel, and we were excited thinking we'd be out of the airport in no time. Well, that idea was squashed when we realized that our second bag did not seem to be coming. We took our baggage claim stubs to the attendant at the desk and she pointed out that of course the bag wasn't showing up. It was tagged to go to Pittsburg! Some idiot in LAX had tagged our bag with someone else's name and destination, and we were lucky to have even located it as fast as we had. The plane wouldn't be landing in Pittsburg for four more hours after we'd discovered it was sent there, so the airport wouldn't be able to get it back until noon the next day. Since we were planning on driving straight to Idaho that night, we were in quite the predicament. Okay, so it wasn't that bad, we just arranged for them to send it to Idaho Falls, and it got there the next day while we were just hanging out with Nick's mission buddy, Josh Grover and his wife Brooke. But it was mostly just annoying because the bag that got mis-tagged was the one with our clean clothes, my makeup, our toothbrushes, facewash, pretty much all the essentials. So we had to make a Wal-mart stop and stock up on a couple things. Staying at Josh and Brooke's was a lot of fun, we don't get down to see them near enough. It was nice to just veg and hang out with them, and their little boy Karver, is such a little stud. As well, I thought I'd share a few pictures of their house. It is absolutely beautiful! Josh works with his dad building houses, and he does custom trim work as well. He is so talented, and we were so impressed with how great it looks. Someday when Nick and I get a house, we want to have Josh come up and do the trim work, it's beautiful.

Josh and Nick

Front entry

Living room and wall of windows in living room

The kitchen

Stairwell

The master bathroom
Karver and I

We drove up to Cardston, the next day after getting our delayed luggage, and enjoyed an evening of hanging out with my family before driving home to Edmonton. Nick and I were excited to be home and sleeping in our own bed again, but our trip was great and we're grateful to everyone who opened their homes to us and spent time with us along the way.