St. George

We arrived in St. George after a nice 7 hour drive.  The red rocks and cliffs and mountains appeared quickly as we approached St. George from the flat desert of Arizona.  It was magnificent.  The red rocks and cliffs and caves everywhere were such amazing sights of nature.  We stayed in a condo on the west side of the city where the kids got to swim and play outside. The condo had a room with 2 sets of bunk beds and the kids each got their own.  That was pretty fun.  Little Nathan slept in a pack n play in our big closet.  We got our own groceries to feed us breakfast lunch, and even dinner.  We had a barbecue the second night out on our large deck that overlooked the park and pool.  It really was super fun staying there. 

In St. George we visited a few places that are rich with our own ancestry.  My moms grandmas house is still standing on the corner of 2 roads.  My mom remembers staying there as a child and playing in the water ditches along the road.  

The Daughters of the Utah Pioneers museum had a room that held the tools of one of our relatives, and the photos of 3 or 4 of them hung on the walls.  Brigham Young's winter home had an office outside of his home where our ancestor, James Godsen Bleak, was his office assistant.  He had been unable to work in the fields because of his frostbitten toes, and instead was hired by Brigham Young to work the finances of the church in that office.  His picture hangs in that office building on the wall.  I remember taking a picture of me and my sisters underneath that picture.  Someday it will mean just as much to my children as it does to me. 

Before we left St. George we visited the caves.  That was really really fun.  A simple "hiking" experience for the kids.  The red rock caves were molds of nature that we could climb up on top, climb under and inside.  The kids loved all of it.  Definitely a sight to see.  The nature of that city is just incredible, the lines in the rock cliffs created after billions of years of water levels rising and falling.  Evidence of the earth's creation right before our eyes.