August Adventures

So, after the "unfortunate event" Mike and I took a week and a half off to re-group.

First on August 6th, Mike's step dad (Gary)and his mom asked us to go to Island Park to gather wood and ride 4-wheelers at his daughters cabin. On the way up to stopped in Ashton to have brunch. Everyone but me had lunch, I had breakfast.

We arrived at the cabin, walked around and then went for a 4-wheeler ride. We were going to go up to saw tooth, but it looked like we were going to get rained on and decided we better get the wood cut first. Just as we finished it rained and we went inside to relax for a bit. Then headed home.

Enjoy the pics of us playing and working!

Playing

Working







The next day, Friday, we drove to Bozeman, MT for a friend of Mike's wedding. We had calculated we needed to leave by 12:30 to be there in time. We left about that time but, it took us longer than expected to get up there. There was a lot of construction that kept slowing us down. We arrived just in time for the wedding to start. Is was very pretty, set up against the mountains. Because it took us soo much longer to get there than expected we ended up not staying for the dinner and dancing. Too bad, I never get Michel to dance and was looking forward to it.

On Sunday we drove to Mike's sisters house, Megan, in Tremonton and spent the night. We had purchased a new game for the Wii called "Rayman Raving Rabbids." It is advertised as the only game you play with your butt. We took this with us and had fun playing it on Sunday night and Monday morning.

On Monday, August 10th, we left Megan's house and drove to St. George until Wednesday.

We arrived in St. George at around 4pm and checked into our condo. We then went to dinner at Cracker Barrel. I had my favorite the chicken and dumplings. We then went back to the condo and Mike went swimming while I sat in the hot tub. We then picked out our complimentary movie and headed back to watch it.

Views of the condo

One of the swimming pool areas


I would like to take a quick moment here to let everyone know that Monday August 10th was our anniversary. We have been married for nine years. I would like to let Mike know that I am grateful for all his support, love and friendship. We don't always get along or agree with each other all the time, but we have worked through it all and are still together.

Ok, back to St. George. On Tuesday we decided to find try and find this ghost town called Silver Reef. It was a little of a disappointment. First about the only thing there was a museum with things found there, a few old foundations, the graveyard, and the outside of one mine.

I love that the carts say Gold and Turquoise, not Silver!

Abandoned mine, I think they are trying to restore it.

I then suggested that we try and find the Dairy Queen. Now let me explain a few things if you have never been to St. George. We were at an exit closer to SLC and the exit we were staying at was the last exit closest to Las Vegas. We decided to start at the first exit and drove around hoping to find more restaurants down one road, but as we drove further away from the interstate we came to residential areas. We then saw a sign for I-15 and followed it which took us down to the second exit. We decided to get back on the high way and go back to the exit and try the other direction. It was the same, we went a little ways and then it was all residential. We decided to try the second exit and had the same luck. At this exit we passed a Custard Shop and decided to stop. By this time the only thing we had seen was a Cold Stone at the first exit and had been driving around for about an hour. The custard was very good and not as heavy as ice cream is. We then drove back to the condo and sure enough there was the Dairy Queen. Oh well, tried something new.

On Wednesday we drove back to Megan's house and stopped to go out to pizza with them. We arrived a little early and Scott had a "Star Wars Christmas" video that he had been given my a co-worker. For those who don't know Megan loves star wars. It turned out to be twice as long as we were told and it was mostly about the Wookies and Chubacas family, so not much talking. It was very painful to sit through and everyone agreed.

Christopher at dinner.

On Thursday it was back to work. A nice time off to regroup.