Mid Oct, final stretch

Been a couple of days since our update. Had a really nice weekend. Saturday we just did some running around. Picked up our new sunglasses. Kim's eyes have changed enough they told her not to wear them until she gets her regular ones. They also brought up the BIFOCAL word. Kim wouldn't hear it! :) Picked up our mail, got some groceries, and just hibernated the rest of the day until we went out to ThaiPhoon Resturant for a nice dinner.
Sunday was Kim's birthday so we went to breakfast first. After breakfast she said she wanted to go to school and do some practice on the pretrips. HMMMM,,school on your birthay, thats a dedicated student! Came home and watched the Pack play after that, they won! Greg and Dan (Gregs roommate) came over with a card and candy for Kim after the game. We went to the Fahrenbachs for dinner. Nancy fixed Kim a nice dinner. Always good to visit with them. We will really miss that when we leave.
Ok, back to school today. We were scheduled to drive this afternoon. Kim drove with Dan, and I drove with Russell, the school director. We went north to I-84 the east thru Weber canyon. Thru the canyon, past Devils Slide, and on up to where it comes together with I-80. There are some really nice red rock outcroppings in that area. We headed back west toward Park City, passing Echo Lake. Just before Park City we got off on a two lane highway and went around Rockport Resevoir, and on thru some small towns and tight turns. This is a ride we have done on the motorcycles several times. Part of what we called the 5 dam ride, because it goes past about 5 lakes and dams. We took a break in Kamas, then on towards SLC. During this run, we had a 10% grade and 8% grades to deal with. (Steep). This route took us on around Jordanelle Resevoir and back to Park City. Boy the colors are still something else. Not as bright as they were a couple of weeks ago, but still alot of greens mixed with browns and yellows. Streams are still running pretty good but all the lakes sure are low now. Once again, we came down Parley's Canyon from Park City into SLC. Dan kept Kim pretty slow and ran down without a jake brake, like she would have to do if she were fully loaded.
This is all coming to a head this week. Tomorrow we have a backing session, the we're off Thursday. Friday morning is a drive up to Logan and back, then Friday afternoon we take our CDL test. That includes a pre-trip, a drive somewhere and back, then we have to back up, straight line, offset back, then parallel park.
I also counted 8 work days left now. That is only working Mon-Wed.
We have put down the numbers and looked at everything, and have decided to go with CFI out of Joplin, Mo. We will have to go to Neosho for an 8 day "boot camp" orientation that starts on 5 Nov. After that we will go with different trainers for about 3 weeks, then into our own truck.
This next month is really going to go fast!