My sister graduated from nursing school and originally wanted to do a girls trip with my sisters and my mom to celebrate. The dad's would stay home and watch the kiddos. Though Somehow my dad and my brother got invited too so it turned into just a Swensen only trip haha. My oldest sister didn't come so we weren't complete. She and her husband took a long trip to Hawaii and got back like two days before we were going to leave so she opted out of this one.
It was just what I needed! I seriously didn't have that hard of a time leaving James. Maybe because he was home with dad and in the same routine and I knew he was having a great time. I missed them both but I seriously enjoyed some time away :)
We arrived in St. George late afternoon and checked into our hotel...worst hotel I've ever stayed in to date haha. Apparently there was an Ironman race going on that weekend and when my mom tried to book a hotel months in advance, almost everything was taken so we got what we could. I guess it wasn't horrible...I've heard of worse.
checking out the Ironman setup the evening before...wish I was cool (or insane) enough to participate
We ate at Texas Roadhouse for an early dinner and then had a little bit of time to kill before we hit the Brian Regan show at Tuacahn. Cardin happened to be graduating that day from Dixie State University and then she and Mitch were to head to Missouri the next morning to sell pest control for the Summer so I had to see her. It worked out perfectly. She and my in-laws and Mitch's family were eating at a restaurant by our hotel so I popped in to tell her congrats and say a quick goodbye
The Brian Regan concert was great! I had never been to Tuacahn. It was a neat experience.
dang hoodlums behind us photobombed our pic haha
let's try this again and with Rob in it this time...(we can't take a decent pic)
Saturday we went to breakfast at Kneaders. It was delish. Their french toast is even bigger than any other Kneaders I've had before though and that's saying a lot! Oh my heck, each slice was seriously like 4-5 inches of yummy goodness! And funny enough, as my family and I are eating, there walks in Cardin, Mitch, Laurie, and Kelvyn! They happened to go to breakfast there before Cardin and Mitch hit the road. So funny. So we got another picture.
We then went to Zion where we hiked to Emerald Lake. My dad mentioned maybe hiking Angels Landing which didn't seem too fun to me. You have to hold on to a chain during part of it so you don't fall off the side of the mountain....ummm no thanks haha. And after seeing a picture of the hike, I'm super glad we didn't do that one. Emerald lake was the perfect length and intensity for me ;)
On the shuttle up into Zion
during the hike...I was exaggerating, it really wasn't bad :)
After we hiked we ate at a local restaurant called Oscars. It was [retty good. As we were leaving paramedics were coming in with a stretcher. Yikes....not sure what happened but we opted to go on another hike just to work off what we ate. Kidding....we took our chances. That evening we did some shopping back in St. George and then got ice cream.
Sunday we checked out, went to breakfast, and headed home.
Like I said it was a short trip but oh so wonderful.
super creepy statue...
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