Wyoming causes problems again

I hate a lot on the fact that I grew up in Wyoming.

HAHAHAHAHAH Wyoming... rural Wyoming, a one stop light town with under 2,000 people and the nearest Wal-Mart/movie theater a mere hour's drive away.  Who grows up there?

Me, I did.  Turns out, a lot of people do.  Okay slightly less than the population of other states, but still, there are people living and raising children in Wyoming.  And not all of them pseudo grow up only to stay there and repeat the process while still children themselves, but I will temporarily step off my small town need for extensive sex-education reform soapbox and attempt to finish the rest of this post.

I have a couple of siblings who LOVE Wyoming.  Both of my brothers married Wyoming girls and return often.  My sister and I on the other hand, married Utah boys and will probably be stuck here, and I'm not entirely upset about it either, for the rest of our natural lives.  My mother is a born and bred Wyoming lover for life.  Plus she still has like a half thousand people who are closely and vaguely and not even at all related to her who still live there, which is reason enough for Connie to drive that direction several times a year in order to strengthen family ties or join together with them in mutual celebration of their shared genome or whatever.  

If Connie loves anything, she loves a reunion.  A class reunion, a family reunion, whatever.  It maketh no difference.    

I am still resisting her military style interrogation and peer pressure tactics to influence me to return there in June for the big whoop di do "all class reunion" which just so happens to coincide with a family reunion, and also a celebration of my 10 year anniversary of saying sayonara to that sweet place (i.e. 10 year class reunion that no one has planned anything for so I'm not really sure what the point is anyway...).  

Kalli, she says, all of your brothers and sisters will be there.  

I see them all the time

What about your family?  Don't you want to see them?  All of your uncles and aunts will be there!

Mom, I SEE THEM ALL THE TIME.

It will be so fun!  Why do you want to miss it?

Because driving 8 hours in a car with a 22 month old and a gassy husband while 7 months pregnant only to stay for 3 days in a dumpy motel with a kid who clearly does not sleep well in motels, dumpy ones especially, and then turn around to drive right back does not sound appealing.

It's not a dumpy motel!  They've completely remodeled it!  

Since I was there 3 years ago?  Because it sure was a dump then.

You're impossible.  

I know.   

Sorry Mom, I just have yet to hear a convincing argument.  Plus the Hub just figured out that it wasn't only a class reunion and that extended family are involved.  He went into the closet and had to breathe into a paper bag for a few minutes.  This is what happens when you only have like 4 cousins and marry into a family where your wife can't even count all of hers because it's physically impossible, and also, ridiculous.   

Generally I do not miss Wyoming.  I like Utah.  We have Super Target, as well as a plethora of outdoor options for my nature needs all within a days drive, and please don't let me fail to mention Sanpete County for the love of sheep and turkeys!  Wyoming?  There are parts I love, our ranch, the mountains, Shell Canyon.  My town?  Meh.  The A&W?  Best freaking root beer ever.  That I miss.  The rest, not so much.  Also, Utah does not have drive through bars.  I see this as a positive.  If you're from Wyoming you would probably feel otherwise.  Kidding, not really...  

Am I being ridiculous here?  I don't think so.  Through the wonders of facebook I pretty much know what everyone's been up to since then so what do we have to talk about?  Facebook has pretty much eliminated the need for me to ever attend any sort of reunion ever again, right?  Maybe that's the only reason I need to keep my account active.  Other than that, I could do without facebook too.

Tell me, if you were me and this was you, would you go and why?