St. George Trip - July 2009

We recently took a trip down to St. George.
My brother-in-law's family has a condo down there.
His family was going down and so we went with them.
We spent a lot of time in the indoor pool because outside was so hot.
Here's my niece McKenzie:

Here's another niece. . Michaela.

The other kid seems familiar. . . but he's too crazy to be mine. . . or maybe not. Here's another niece. . . Maddie
Michaela and Sadie spent a lot of time together. Sadie calls her kaka. . . somewhat amusing. . .

We took one day to drive down to Vegas and enjoy the aquarium at the Mandolay Bay casino.
We stopped by the M&M factory while we were down there so we could buy some M&Ms at twice the price that you can buy them at a regular store. Spencer had his birthday while we were down there. There were some candles there luckily. . . the funny part was that they were the re-lighting type.

We went to sacrament meeting down there before coming home. Before church the kids enjoyed playing with everything in the kitchen.
On the way home we tried to see a ghost town at Silver Reef, but it was pretty disappointing. However, we did stop at Cove Fort which was a much better historical stop. Cove Fort was the crossroads of a couple main routes for the telegraph, mail and travel in central Utah.

For more information on the fort go to : www.covefort.com

It was a nice break from the car.

There were missionaries there to give guided tours, so it took a bit longer than expected, but was more informative than just looking at the rooms and fort would have been.

Sadie enjoyed it.

Here's the big front doors. and a cute family.

(On a side note I noticed that the hinges to the doors leave the pins on the outside of the fort when the doors are closed. . . so when the doors were closed, someone could potentially pop the pins of the hinges and pull the doors off. . . so I guess it is good the never had any battles here. The fort was recently restored. . . so the hinges on the wrong side could have been a result of the restoration).

Anyway, it was a fun .