vacation

We just got back from vacation in St George. Paula has a freind that had extra time on their time share so they put us up in a condo for 4 days 3 nights. On the way down we stopped at Cove Fort the kids had fun and seemed to learn a little bit. We got to St George and relaxed that night. We got up Friday morning and went to Zion National Park. The kids had a ball there, we went on several hikes. I think the kids really liked weeping rock and had fun there. We were going to go to The Emarald Pools but they don't let you swim in them anymore so we took the Narrows riverwalk and let the kids play in the water there they also got to play in the creek at weeping rock. They all did pretty good on these moderate and easy hikes. They really wanted to go to Angel's landing but well for obvious reason we didn't even start that one a few more years. We got back to the condo and went swimming. After Dinner we went downtown St George and went on a small tour of the Temple the kids seemed to be a little bored with that. On Saturday we planned to hit Zion again, but well we just weren't in the mood for it so we went around town went to the Wildlife museum. We were using the GPS to get around town and found that it is not the most accurate thing in the world our first real bad experience with it. It ended up taking us up and aroundtown instead of a direct route, I knew where the address was but thought hmm the GPS must know it is on this side of the hill, so I followed it, oh well we saw a part of St George that we hadn't seen before. After the little GPS detour we ate lunch and went to the Tabernacle for a little tour there. The Historic district downtown has a water play area with small creek that runs through it and fountains that spout so they can run through it, we didn't know that was there and so the kids got to play in it fully dressed they didn't care they had a blast and were soaked. We went back to the condo and went swimming. On the way home Sunday we went on the scenic way home and went through Zion tunnel, and then up highway 89 to i-70 and then home. Alot of awesome views going that route, the kids got to see a lot of fun stuff. On the way into Tooele I asked the kids what was the funnest thing on vacation they all said swimming. No more vacations for us we just have to take them swimming. I think Paula and I enjoyed this vacation cause we didn't stick ourselves to any time frame so we just had fun and didn't really care if we got everything done we wanted to. We just did what we wanted and had fun.