This past weekend we had the opportunity to go down south to St George. Eric taught a flex net class for the University of Phoenix that was based down there. He had flown down for the first class, the next three were online and then the last class was back down there. When he signed up for the course we planned to spend that last class with him and make a weekend out of it. We invited any family who could swing it to make arrangements and come and spend some time with us. My parents, Eric's mom and Kim and Michael were the only ones who were able to make it. We headed down Thursday afternoon to be there in time for Eric's class. While Eric taught his class I took the kids to High School Musical 3. They loved it and it was a great alternative to sitting around the hotel room trying to entertain the kids whilst avoiding the pool, that is Eric's department :) Friday morning we had breakfast and the kids and Eric swam and then we headed over to the outlet mall to wait for the rest of our party to arrive. The rest of Friday was spent relaxing and gearing up for our hiking day on Saturday. And hike we did.
We started off with a Petroglyphs hike that we had heard about and then on to Snow Canyon for our favorite hike up "Pudding Mountain" as we like to call it. We took the back way down the mountain and even braved coming through the crevice. I think Marilyn thought we were crazy, but she was a great sport and hung in every step of the way! She was amazing!
Chloe found a hiking buddy in Michael and did not let go of his hand for more than 2 minutes at a time, sorry Kim...and Michael!
Alec scrambled all over the mountains and found a hiking buddy of his own.
Kate spent a great deal of the hikes crying, but only because she wanted to be down with the rest of us and not in her pack.
Our last stop was the Sand Dunes, also in Snow Canyon. We buried Alec, Chloe and Michael up to their necks in sand and did some sand jumping.
Kate was in Hog's Heaven just being able to roam at will and play in the sand. Eric thought she like it so much he decided she would like to stay forever. My mom and I walked back to get the cars so we could pull them up closer to where we were playing. When we pulled up, everyone came walking down to get in the cars.... and nobody had Kate. Eric promptly turned tail and ran back to get her. She was just hanging out up on the hill with a cute family that was playing next to us. They were standing around watching to see how long it would take before we realized that she was missing! Thank goodness it is a funny story, or Eric might have lost his happy home!
We had a great time, got some great pictures, had some good laughs and got hooked on a new game, Mexican Train. Next time we go we hope that more people can come and join in on the fun!
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Mom said that you guys had a really great time and that Kate story was the first thing she told me. Ha ha ha... I was rolling - nice work Eric. :) Always the attentive father.
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