A mini-vaca

I have been itching, seriously itching, to go for a little vacation for the past few months.  We finally decided to just make it happen and made a reservation for 3 days/2 nights in St. George (which was awesome cause this resort is always booked.)  Theeeeeeen, it just so happened that our car got busted up a few days before we were supposed to drive down there...  Luckily we got our pimpin' new car in time, but it was 11 o'clock on Friday night when we rolled out of the dealership.  So, we had put conditional work to be done in our offer, and Jeff -bless him - got up to take the van in early Monday morning.  They took f-o-r-e-v-e-r working on our car, and finally around 1 or 2 we told em to do the superficial stuff another day, we're outta here!  So we headed to St. George and arrived for a late dinner, which we brought to our condo.  (The drive down in a minivan, by the way, was nice and probably more comfortable than in our littlie!

The girls always love to go to our "trip house" and were excited little runts running all over the first night.  We really got there much later than planned, so we just settled in that night.  The next morning, we got up and had a small breakfast in then headed straight to the pool.  That was really fun (except that I couldn't use the hottub) and the weather was perfect for it.  We went out for an Asian buffet lunch and then headed back to try for naps.  There was only minimal napping goin on (ie, Jeff and I tried to nap while the girls would not and kept waking us up) so we finally got up and went to the temple visitors' center - where they fell asleep as soon as we pulled in, of course!  It was a tad bit advanced for the girls, but they loved the flowers and movies, plus the statue of Jesus.  We debated a movie but couldn't find one that worked for us, so we had some playground time, then had dinner at Anasazi.  It's a steakhouse where they cook and bring you your food on a hot rock.  It's really fun!  And we did fondue there, too, which we love.  Though, it turned out to be kinda dangerous with a 2 and 3 year old, and I don't mean the heat, I mean the drippy chocolate and their poor clothes!  Afterward, we got the girls a redbox and popcorn, while Jeff and I caught the Jazz game. The girls actually slept in the big girl beds that night, that was a first!

Our next day, we had breakfast and packed up just in case, then headed out to Snow Canyon State Park.  It was just a maybe on our itinerary, but I am so glad we went.  They had an area of sand dunes that was pretty much a giant sandbox for the girls.  We also saw a rabbit, climbed some petrified sand dunes and dad showed off by climbing up into one of the rock faces.  It was a highlight for us, and it was nice that it was a smaller place since we had toddlers and pregmeister.  We finished right about checkout time, so we grabbed some Jack in the Box (yummo!) and hit the road.  We really wanted to stay longer but I had to be back for Young Women's that night.  Blessedly, the girls watched their movie again or slept the vast majority of the trip home and we didn't have to stop once.

 

   

 

It was a great little trip, though I was sad we had to cut it a little short on both ends.  It was great after a stressful week, but I think it only served to aggravate the itch further for me!  Here's to many summer trips ahead!