Fall break trip to Snow Canyon

 

For Fall break, we took off to Snow Canyon.  We've never taken our kids down to the St. George area before so it was their turn.  My growing up years, summer was spent at Bear Lake and fall and spring were in Hurricane with my grandparents.  The area has grown a lot in the last 20 years since I've been there, but there are some memories that I was able to share with the kids.  

We took time to visit the dinosaur museum that is focused on the dinosaur tracks found at a farm in the last few years.  I was sick with a cold that I caught not long before, but we went and had fun anyways. Seth was thrilled.  He loves dinosaurs and I want to take advantage of that while he still does.

The kids also found the tardis and the Back to the Future Delorian.

We went to visit the Ivan's art city.  We loved looking at the pottery, metal work, jewelry, photography, etc... and while we were looking, we met a guy renting ebikes.  We didn't have anything scheduled, so we decided to do it.  We rode them from Ivans and up Snow Canyon til the petrified sand dunes.  It was so fun!  I did feel like it was cheating a little to have the electric bikes, but it was so nice to go up the hill without struggling. We were gone for about 2-2 1/2 hours and got to hike the petrified sand dunes, and zoom down the hill after.  I was a little worried about losing the kids or going too fast for them to handle, so we averaged about 15 mph on the way up the hills, but the way back we got up to 28 going down some of those hills.  Everyone loved it.  Jer had the hardest time.  He had Evelyn and Seth on a little less beefy bike, but he said it was still fun.  The hardest/funniest part was that every time Jeremy had to stop, Seth's helmet would hit Jeremy and then go back and hit Evelyn's helmet....

I was the navigator.  I held the map and tried to make sure we stayed on course.

Old pottery wheel

Sam "died"

These were really neat bells made from old train parts and gears.  I would have gotten one for our yard but they were $1,200 or so.... Yeah, we skipped that one.