St. George
Oct. 13-16

Originally we had planned on going to St. George over conference weekend since we hadn't been there in so long and we don't get to see Dan's family a lot. Once we heard that his mom would be visiting over the 16th we decided to go then. It turned out to be perfect timing since Enrique (Dan's brother) and his wife Jamie had just had a baby boy McCoy Flores, and their daughter Taislee had just turned one so they were throwing a birthday bash for her.

We left Logan Thursday night after work. It was me, Dan, Richard and his friend. The drive was good and it didn't feel long. Once we got to St. George it was about 10:00 and we hung out with his mom and sister til about one. By the time we went to bed I was so tired and thankfully we slept in the next day.

Friday:
We had decided that we wanted to do a good hike in Zion's especially since the weather had been so nice. We hiked down the start of Pine Creek and Dan gave 'Rique (his nephew) a quick lesson on repelling. We hadn't realized how much water there would be and so we jumped in the first section and it was above our heads and freezing....I went first and Dan had to lower me in the frigid water....everyone finally made it across except Richard. They all started debating on whether or not we should continue on in freezing water for over 3 hours...Dan and I were still up for it but in the end we decided to veto it which is probably good since we had Rique with us, but I'd still like to do it again someday. We did however do a small hike while we were there and that was surprisingly really fun. The scenery was beautiful. After getting back and cleaning up a little we went and played on the trampoline with Dan's nieces and nephew, Ashlyn, Xavier and Sadie. It was really fun to play with them and their stories were hilarious. Later we all went over to Bruce (Dan's brother) and Tiffany's house and watched Mega-mind which was hilarious.


Saturday:
Once again we were able to sleep in and then we got ready for Taislee's birthday party. Laura had made a super cute lady bug cake and little lady bug cup cakes for the party. It was really fun and the weather was perfect. We were able to just hang out all day with all of his family which was great since we hardly ever get to do that. Later that night Dan and I went to finally get a cup cake from the famous cup cake place in St. George (ha ha I can't even remember the name) We were by the tabernacle when we saw there was a Merry-go-round. Dan then revealed to me that he had never actually been on one before so of course we decided to give it a go. Dan got a great looking horse but not as beautiful and mine with it's flowing mane! Richard then called Dan and asked if we wanted to go repelling down the Dixie rock. I had done it before but forgot that going over the edge is the scariest part and since I am getting old and wussier by the day I was a little nervous but gladly once I went over it was a breeze. It was a lot of fun. Once we got back to Dan's house we hung out with this mom and Enrique before finally going to bed.

























































Sunday:
We went to church. We were able to see 'Rique pass the sacrament. Then we went home and everyone ate a great meal before we headed back to Logan.