Day Three (Eclipse Road Trip) cont'd

Ogden, Utah 🠊Price, Utah

We got into Price, Utah, about 7:30 p.m. The sun was still up and we were able to see a lot of Price before the sun set. One of the locations I wanted to see right away was the downtown area, but Jeff surprised me with a stop at the actual location of where the hospital is/was (which is now a technical school). It was a great surprise and the same building is still there, just remodeled. It was an incredible feeling of being in the same place my parents were at when I was born. How they carried me through the halls, and walked with me out to their car. How the moment I was standing at the "emergency room entrance," as if I was reliving the moment and watching all three of us leave and go home. This trip changed me and my thinking of all of the moments, struggles, family time, experiences, love, and newness of their lives at that time 46 years before. My dad was 27 and my mom was barely 22. I had Skylar at 26 and Jeff was 31. It was exciting to think that my parents were so young still, but they did the best they could at the time. My sister was one when I was born, so they were young parents with two kids under two. Incredible and I am so happy for them. I stood at that entrance and closed my eyes for a brief moment. I pictured them coming out to get into the car with the help of the hospital staff and imagined my present self telling them, "Congratulations!" "This little girl will be a free spirit, different, kind, empathetic, caring, hard on herself, compassionate, understanding, lost, weird, creative, emotional, silly, and curious."

We came over a small hill to see a Carbon County sign. I was starting to get extremely anxious to see what the town looked like for my first impression. I had it so built up in my head, and my mom always told me that Price, Utah, doesn't have much. She always said it was a small town with not a lot there other than basic things, grocery store, hospital, post office, so to me I pictured a small town and a blip on the map.

We finally saw a highway sign that read "Price," and I started getting emotional. As we came through the small area where a gas station is and a small intersection, a white SUV pulled out and the license plate was a major shock.

My Nana passed away April 2011, and us being in Price, Utah, in April and to see this I felt it was a sign that she was here with us and excited that I finally got to see where my life began. I immediately started taking pictures on my phone and every one of them were blurry and I was crying and couldn't stay still enough to get a good one. Skylar took a lot on the Nokia digital camera and we were able to see it clearer. I sent it to my family in a large group text and everyone couldn't believe it either. What a cool moment for me to have such a moment of reflection seeing this at that very moment. It is definitely something I won't ever forget. ♥

The old hospital building that is now a technical school for Utah State. The building was in good shape and I was glad to see it still being used for something practical. It was a surreal moment standing in front of it.