St. George

Earlier this month we took a much needed vacation to St. George. Jeff's company offers their employees a chance to sign up for a condo there and we signed up. Since it is a huge condo, seriously it was larger than our first floor of our house it had 2 master bedrooms with master baths in each and than 2 more bedrooms where one had 1 set of bunkbeds and the other one had 2, we invited my sister and her family to come with us. We only spent a week there and 2 of those days we were traveling so we had 3 days in St. George.

The day we arrived we spent the rest of the day in the condo and towards the end of the day we had a visit from some very cute and furry animals. It turns out that a huge family of bunnies was living in the empty land behind our condo. They would come up in the morning and the evening to eat the grass and the plants that were around our condo. They would disapear when anyone would go outside buy all of the kids still had fun looing at them through the windows.

Here is the picture of the bunny:

The next day we all packed up and went on a hike in Snow Canyon State Park. We chose the Petrified dunes hike. It started out as a normal hike where there was a clear trail and then all of a sudden we came upon some of the dunes and we started hiking up the dunes and there was no more trail. It turns out that the kids absolutely loved it. They love climbing rocks when they are normal height and when they were able to climb ones that were the height of a small hill they were elated.

Here is a picture that I took when I was at the middle of one of the hills with Debra (my sister) and Gavin (her youngest) while Jeff, Dallin, Isaac, Austin, and Andrew were at the top. It was fun climbing all over the dunes. We had so much fun we didn't feel the workout that we were getting. We all felt the pain when we got back to the condo.

While climbing the dunes we came across the rocks that are in the picture blow. You might not be able to tell, but in real life the rocks looked like pieces of poo. Everyone said and I think the kids even said to not walk on them because they were poo

We took Wednesday off from doing anything away from the condo. We had an early lunch and then we went to the pool. I took my camera to the pool, but I spent too much time in the pool that I didn't get any photos. It was Kaden's first time in a huge pool and I thought that he would have fun because he has so much fun while taking a bath. But I guess he was too tired, because he sat there and cried for awhile. Luckily Jeff took him so I could play with Dallin and Isaac, who both had a lot of fun in the water. Kaden did finally calm down and we put him in his little saucer and pushed him around the pool and he had some fun. I hope that he has a lot of fun in the pool that we will put up in our backyard this year.

Thursday we decided to venture out into St. George again and we decided that since all the kids love dinosaur train that we would take them to the dinosaur track museum that is there. They had a little video about how the museum came to be, but the kids had more fun drawing pictures than watching. (In the picture below you can see the picture that Isaac made) We then went to the education room where they had a replica of a dinosaur that was found in England. It was really interresting and you can see the replica in the back of the picture below.

 Next was to walking amoung some of the rocks that had the tracks on them. You were not allowed to touch most of them, but they did have a couple that you could touch and feel and we had Isaac put his foot put to see the difference between sizes of feet.

 Dallin was pretty bored throughout the whole visit inside the museum, which isn't that big and for kids probably not that entertaining, but after the trip to the gift shop we went outside so the kids could play in the sand box. Dallin went to town, we told him that they might have things hidden in the sand and he started digging and he discovered this. He didn't really know what to do after he uncovered it. So I got in the sand and started brushing the sand out of the print and then he took over and went to work. He had a lot of fun and he discovered another print behind this one before we left. All of the kids had fun in the sand box and it gave the parents a little break to talk about what we have done and the rest of the trip.



I had to add this picture because Kaden is too cute. We had him facing forward while we were walking around the dunes, but when we got to the top of one of the hills, we took him out to feed him, but he was too tired to eat, so we turned him around and within minutes he was out and he slept all the way down the hill.

It was a fun trip and we were glad that we could take the time to get away as a family and to have Debra and Andrew and there boys. We all had fun and it was a little rainy at the beginning of the week, but we got up to the 80s by the time we left. So the weather was even nice.