I am way behind on updating our blog, so I am going to attempt catch up over the next few days. I'll start with Spring Break. We went down to St. George. The idea was to get away and soak in sum sun while Alyssa got a lot of time on the tennis court and the other kids spent a lot of time in the pool. We rented a condo in Las Palmas resort. We had access to multiple pools and hot tubs, as well as playgrounds, sports courts, and games. We only ended up using the pools and hot tubs at the resort.
We chose to play tennis at a nearby park because the courts were much better quality. Alyssa especially loved the the tennis courts had lights so that we could play night tennis. Shortly after we got back from our trip, our closest tennis courts finally made the tennis lights available to the public, so she has played quite a bit of night tennis since spring break.
On one of mornings we were there, we headed to Zion National Park. We failed to secure bus tickets, so we went up to the Kolob Canyon area of the park instead. We went on the coolest day of the week, which we discovered was a mistake once we were there. Kolob Canyon is higher elevation and quite a bit colder than St. George...and we left all of our sweatshirts back at our condo. So it was breezy and cool(like high 50's to low 60's, and we found ourselves seeking sunshine and moving as much as possible to keep warm.
We drove up the canyon as far as we could go and then got out and did a hike. the view at the top was spectacular. We also had a picnic lunch before heading back to our condo. It wasn't as long of a National Park visit as usual, but a nice getaway. And the kids were not disappointed to get back earlier than planned and have more time in the pools.
The next morning we split up. I took the 3 younger kids to Thunder Junction all abilities playground and Danny played a very hot round of tennis with Alyssa. I guess I forgot to take pictures this time, but they had a lot of fun and played for a few hours. They also got to ride the train twice.
The last full day there, we went up to pioneer park and the gardens. It was hot but we still had a lot of fun. The kids especially loved climbing on the rocks at pioneer park.
And they even braved the super thin slot canyon. Danny didn't even attempt it and I chickened out after about 10 ft in.
We also stopped at the Brigham Young winter home. We couldn't go inside, but we walked around the grounds and peered through the windows. We were going to visit the temple grounds too, but forgot that it would be under construction right now.
That evening we hiked to the rock quarry where they got the stones for the temple. It was the perfect time of day for the hike because most of the hike was in the shade, due to the setting sun.
We had a lot of fun and the kids keep asking when we can go back and stay there again.
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