In Hermosillo in Mexico

We finally got to Hermosillo on Monday. We had so much fun. It took a long time driving. We stayed at 5 different hotels.

At the grocery store, I met a little boy. He asked me what my name was. I said, "Dylan". He asked me if I liked dinosaurs and I said yes. He asked me where I was from and I said Canada. I kind of remember his name, but it was a name that I thought was silly.

The weather is hot. It has been 40c.

We have met 2 missionary families. One has a 6-year-old boy and the other has a 5-year-old boy that turns 6 tomorrow. We are going to his birthday party.

I spoke Spanish on the telephone to Mr. Neufeld:
I said, "Hola."
He asked if my dad was there.
I said, "Si. Uno momento."
It was fun!

Day 4 Driving

We left Utah today and went into Arizona. It was hot. I touched a cactus while Mom took a picture.

We saw a dam and we saw a spring of water spraying up. I asked to go over across the dam. He said we're not allowed.

I liked the Grand Canyon. The view was perfect. God did a good job!

Day 3 Driving

By this sign it was a very busy highway.

In Utah there were 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 lane highways that we saw.

I saw overpasses and there were so many very close to each other and going around and up and all around. After we passed the overpasses, I said to Mom that I thought that those overpasses were 'Overpass World'.

I took 70 pictures of big trucks.

We saw a motorcylce. Motorcycles are Kobe's and Zane's and my favourite.

This is the USA flag. When the wind blew it the right way I took a pictures. We saw lots of American flags.

We saw some little holes in the rocks that animals had made to be safe. We also saw caves that were little.

Day 2 Driving

This is the truck we saw in our hotel yesterday morning when we were having breakfast. I showed Mom and she thought it was nice.




This was something I've never seen before. It's the borderline going to the USA. I took lots of pictures. We had to get our passports out so the guy could see them. He asked us where we were going and we said, "Mexico."



When Mom showed me this sign, I was so interested in what rattlesnakes were like. I've never seen one. I tried to look all over in the grass, but couldn't see any.




I had been waiting for the Idaho sign so I could take a picture of it. I didn't know that the Americans used miles instead of kilometres. My brother was kind of an American. He said 'ruf' instead of 'roof'.


Mom and Dad said we were good travellers.

Grannie & Papa - I have a big-truck picture to email you.

Day 1 Driving

Zane had gotten bored of driving and Daddy took an empty water bottle and he put pennies in it for a rattle to keep Zane interested.

Then the deal was that me and Kobe had to drink our water and I drank mine and Kobe wanted help. Mom took an old bottle of water - a quarter full - and she dumped it out and all the water went onto Kobe's window and Kobe thought it was raining.

Mom put some pennies in the bottle for Kobe and Mom put pennies in mine. Soon we were making such a racket that when Dad was driving, he plugged his ears! I think Zane thought it was funny. I did think it was funny!

After a few hours Mom gave me her old camera. I took around 50 pictures and some of them I didn't like so I erased them and took more.

This bridge I tried to take a picture of earlier, but I didn't get good ones so I erased them. Then we turned around a corner and then I saw the bridge and I took the picture.



















Bobbie Jo - I have 2 semi-truck pictures for D. I will get Mom to email them to you for D.

Getting Ready For Mexico

We are leaving for Mexico tomorrow and we are going to the Grand Canyon first.

Today I went to the bank to get some United States money so that we can exchange it into Mexican pesos.

Today I woke up and remembered that tomorrow we are going to Mexico. I went through my drawers and searched through all my t-shirts and searched for all my shorts and all of my socks and my jammies and underwear and then I stopped and I went to tell Mom that I had gotten that stuff and that I was ready - even though we weren't going to Mexico today. I knew that Mom had to find some Crocs for my two brothers and had to pack their stuff.

I am excited that we are going to some place hot and going to have fun.