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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

An Escape to Warmer Weather???

Mike and I decided to plan a long weekend to St. George over Presidents' Day weekend. I had a meeting for UALA to attend down there on Friday, so we thought that we should make the most of it and try to enjoy some warmer weather. Mike decided to invite his brother, mom, and her husband to come along, so we made a little family vacation out of it.

Our adventure began on Thursday night. There was a really bad car accident south of Beaver that ended up closing the freeway for over eight hours. It had been snowing fairly heavily the whole way, so we decided not to take the detour and just spend the night. Fortunately, Mike has family that live in Beaver, and his sweet aunt was so willing to take us in at a moment's notice. Thanks Julie!!!

Unfortunately, the weather wasn't too warm, but we were still able to have a good time. While we were in St. George, we visited a few of the Parade of Homes, saw a movie, and went to Snow Canyon. One of the homes that we visted was amazing...it had this swimming pool and grotto, a Harry Potter room, basketball court, racketball, rock climbing...it really was amazing. I was also so excited because Mike and I were able to go to lunch with Talia and Jordan. Talia and I have been friends for over twenty years, so it was good to catch up.

Mike and Lisa in Snow Canyon at the fossilized lava

Mike and Trevor hiking up to read the pioneer names off of the rock

John, Denece, and Trevor

1 comment:

Rachel said...

You should have kept driving south! It's much warmer in Arizona! =) I'm glad you got to meet up with Talia. I'm sure she loved that!