St. George vacation!

This past week we decided with all the stress in our lives to take a vacation. We were going to go through St. George and through Mesquite and then go onto Grand Canyon and valley of fire. But our little car didn't work so we ended just spending three days having fun in St. George with our beast of a van. I enjoy driving it and there is tons more room it is just a gas hog. We spent like three times the gas we would have in our car, but we had a blast and were able to get groceries also. We went to the Washington City community center and took the kids swimming. They have a lot of cool kids slides and an indoor hydro tube, a river that pushes you along and just a lot of fun things. The kids really enjoyed it, and Trevor enjoyed his time going down the hydrotube. Trustin got to have a ride with Trevor down the hydrotube and thought it was a blast. Then that night we went to a movie the Lightening theif. It was a good movie, a little over the kid's heads, but it was the only kids movie that we could go to and we have to take advantage of it when we are there. We ordered a big tub of popcorn since it was the kids first movie at the theater, Aleynah was sooo excited, but she ended up just falling asleep halfway through. Then on Saturday we spent the day in Snow Canyon (named after the color of the rocks not the temperature). They had sand dunes which were the color red and petrified sand dunes which they were able to climb and just a bunch of cool places to hike. It was packed with people being easter weekend. Then we just ended staying at a hotel for 2 nights. We have found this great hotel that we always stay at that has two rooms, basically the two queens in the one room then a hideabed in the other one with a t.v. that we put the kids in and they just watch tv until they fall asleep. It works very well with two young kids who are wound up and don't want to fall asleep. We also enjoyed going out to eat, McDonald's, subway, pizza hut, arby's. So all in all we had a blast. It is so nice to get out of the house once in a while.