A snowy visit with Wyatt...

Will and I flew into Salt Lake City and in a mid sized rental car made our way up to Preston, Idaho to visit Wyatt.  Did I mention we made the drive in the middle of a snow storm?  Good thing Will remembers how to drive in snow...I would have driven us off the road early and often.  We made it up to Preston with an hour before Wyatt was home from school.  

 

Will and I indulged ourselves and spent some time shoveling the driveway.  I'm pretty sure it is has been nearly twenty years since I shoveled a significant amount of snow.  My muscles were sore the next day.  We both enjoyed the "workout" but don't have a desire to make it a regular part of our lives.

Wyatt came around the corner to see us shoveling just as a car fishtailed past us.  Wyatt looked happy to see us...or he was smiling at our near brush with death?  Hard to say.  He did give both of us a big hug.

The next day Wyatt gave us a tour of his high school.  This is the actual high school and town where the movie Napoleon Dynamite was filmed.  Wyatt showed us some of his classrooms and told us how classes are going.  He really is doing so much better with in person school.  He is one of the struggling many who does not fair well with the lack of socialization in the remote model.  We are so thankful there are some places where in person learning is happening and we are able to send Wyatt there.  We are lucky, I know.  

It was so good to see Wyatt smile and hear him describe his comings and goings right now.  He hasn't made any friends he can hang out with after school yet but he is optimistic.  People are so friendly and helpful.  He is enjoying playing games every night with my mother-in-law and her husband.  Wyatt is going to stay in Preston for the rest of the school year.  Hopefully, he will make some good friends and continue to enjoy school.  We dropped him off at his cousin's house in Utah for a few days of cousin time. He is certainly having a lot of different opportunities in Idaho than he does in California.