Dream Trip 2009

Great Travel Moment

My youngest sister lives a 40-minute drive from my college apartment in Utah. But she might disagree with you if you said that isn?t a very exotic vacation destination. When she came to spend a week with me last June, she was as delighted about the trip as if she went to Italy (and she asked, ?Are we there yet?? a thousand fewer times). I took her to potentially uninteresting places?the duck pond, the campus bookstore, the university?s little dinosaur museum. But she found everything new and exciting. This picture pretty much sums up her vivid reaction to all we saw that day. She felt like a big girl, doing thrilling, novel things with her grown-up sister. On our walk back to my apartment, she sighed, "This is the best day of my life." Mine too.