Long story short, we needed a vacation. It so happens that the Super Bowl always lands on our Stake Conference, so it's a great week to head down to Cedar City to spend time with family. I invited ourselves to a Super Bowl party at Matt and Sara's, and promised I would contribute some goodies. So last Friday we took off, and made quite a big photo detour through some unexplored towns. I fell in love with Spring City, if you ever have the chance to detour through it I say you should. Oh, and I want to live in this house when we move there.
After Spring City we traveled through a few other small towns we've never been to, it was a nice little detour. We stopped just long enough to take a few pictures of the temple in Manti and then finally got back in the right direction to Cedar City.
When we arrived in Cedar Sara had a nice dinner waiting, like usual, and then we just relaxed that evening. Saturday morning we got up early and headed to St. George, which usually always takes longer than expected because Ryan and Matt find some kind of photo detour, this was no exception. Luckily, they stuck close to the freeway and took a few photos in Leeds, Harrisburg, and New Harmony. It actually was pretty cool to tour the remains of the CCC Camp in Leeds.
When we arrived in St. George all the woman and children were rioting "food, food, food" so lunch was a priority, and a first for me trying In and Out Burger. Then we went to the dinosaur museum, who knew St. George had a dinosaur museam? Not me. Apparently a farmer clearing land for a subdivison found dinosaur foot prints which spurred a flock of archiologists. The museum is built aound one big area of rock which had dinosaur tracks and then several displays of other footprint finding. It was small, but interesting enough for me.
They had a small kids area where the kids could do crayon rubbing and practice oragami. Ryan was very excited to pass on his crane making skills to Peyton.
Outside they had a sandbox which we all assumed had some bones or fossils in it, but they must have already been discovered because the kids had no such luck!
After the kids playtime was through it was time for the parents to enjoy a tour of the old tabernacle.
Our tour guide at the Tabernale asked if we'd been to the other historic church sites in town. To my surprise Matt and Sara said no. Even Ryan and I had been, a couple times, and so we figured we better make a day of it.
So next we visited Brigham Young's Winter Home. We had a very cute sister missionary greet us only to say that she was leaving soon, so couldn't start a tour. But she took some fun pictures for us and visited with the kids while we waited for her replacement.
After Brigham Young's home we headed out to Jacob Hamblin's home. It was so nice and quiet at all of our locations, not many other people there so we got a lot of extra information.
Next we headed to dinner, which was the worst part of the day. We discovered that Applebees has crappy service no matter what town you're in. Ryan had some gift cards, so we thought it was worth a shot, but nope, still wasn't worth it.
After dinner we figured we might as well make the church tour complete by stopping by the Temple Visitors center. The kids learned the the Angel Moroni is not on the St. George Temple but it gets too hot down there and he decided to fly away. We actually ran into the same Sister who gave us the tour of Brigham Young's Home and she was so excited to see us. After listening to the statue of The Savior speak she asked the kids if he looked like he was about to give them a hug. Andrea educated her by telling her that he was a statue and couldn't give hugs.
Sunday was the Super Bowl and even though it was Stake Conference back home, I thought it would be nice to go to church with their family since I haven't been to church for a while wihout stressing the whole time. It was nice to relax, but honestly, it makes for a very long church block!
After chruch we fixed the good foods and watched the game, a very dissapointing game, but memorable. Then it was pretty much time for bed for the kids. Andrea had a fun time this trip sleeping in either Peyton's or Meryn's room with them. And it was so nice having Peyton fix her breakfast in the morning and I had no idea since I was still sleeping.
3 comments:
This makes me want to go on a little vacation, too. It looks like you guys had fun.
If you want my Dad's talks from Stake Conference, he emails me copies from every conference. Haha! :)
That's really funny, I did hear that he spoke about fulfilling your callings. I'm sure those that I know need it, weren't there either.
When my grandparents lived in St George, they were only a few blocks from the temple (they ran the Jubilee Home across from the hospital), so my cousins and I would go over to the temple and play on the lawns and the steps. How blasphemous is that?! Lol I think it's gated now, isn't it? If so, it's probably because of us ;-)
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