Southern Utah Getaway

 We enjoyed our little three day getaway to Southern Utah this past weekend. We rented a Cabin near a little town called Duck Creek Village(and when I say little, I mean little. The population was like 50). Our cabin was nice and pretty much in the middle of nowhere. We got down there on Thursday afternoon. My sister's family happened to be on their way back to Colorado from a two week trip to California and were staying in Cedar City that night, so we made the 1 hour drive down the canyon to see them. Alyssa and Ashley loved seeing their cousins and being able to play at a park for a couple of hours. We got back to the cabin, had a late dinner and then welcomed Gawbie and Grandpa before heading to bed.
On Friday morning, we headed off to Bryce Canyon. We decided it probably wasn't a good idea to do much hiking since I'm 31 weeks pregnant, Danny is recovering from a knee injury that he got playing Ultimate Frisbee with his Deacons on Wednesday night, and Ashley isn't much of a hiker and tires really quickly. So we opted for the self-navigated driving tour of the different lookout points. We stopped at maybe 8 different spots and enjoyed the views. We did hike down a little on one of the trails in order to get to this little archway. Once the girls saw how hard it was to climb the short distance we had gone down, they were glad that we didn't hike any further into the canyon.

 

 

 The girls loved the "cannon"(that's what they kept calling it-a word learned from "Jake and the Neverland Pirates"). The first lookout was a little scary as there were no railings next to the very steep and large drop off, but the rest of them had railings up.
On Saturday, we opted to stay close to the cabin rather than making another hour drive to see Zion National Park. We tried going into Duck Creek Village to do some fishing and rent an ATV, but it was a bad time of year for both. The lake was too icy for fishing and we weren't dressed properly for the ATV ride. So we headed back to the cabin, enjoyed conference and did a hike that started right off of the cabin lot. Here is a picture of our cabin from up the mountain a little.

 A closer shot of the back of our cabin.

 Our cabin had a few perks, one of which was this very nice fire pit. On Friday and Saturday night, we lit a fire, enjoyed roasting marshmallows, and telling campfire stories(or at least we listened to Danny tell stories). The Cabin also had a horseshoe pit and a pool table which we enjoyed quite a bit.

 We had originally considered going camping this weekend, but decided that the cabin was a much more comfortable way of enjoying the outdoors, especially with me being pregnant. I was also sick most of the weekend, so I'm glad I didn't spend those days living out of a tent. We were also glad to have Gawbie and Grandpa there with us to enjoy the weekend.