This last week we traveled down to St. George. It was SO much fun!
We arrived Thursday evening (19 April). We got to our hotel, unpacked and then headed off to find some food! We had made a list of restaurants in the area that sounded good (thank you internet!) and we went to one of those called the “Tiki Island Broiler.” It was quite similar to the idea of Rumbi, and it was quite yummy! Also, they had a GORGEOUS place outside to eat! It was the perfect temperature, there was a fountain trickling away, we could hear kids playing in the pool nearby, and there were palm trees! We felt like we were in paradise! (It’s amazing how good it feels to be away from school for a while!)
The next day we found another great restaurant by chance. We saw a sign for Belgian waffles and we HAD to go check it out. It turns out that “Bear Paw Coffee” is a happening spot in St. George. We drove past it quite a few times and there was ALWAYS a line outside of it. We had perfect timing, however, and didn’t have to wait at all! It makes a big difference when you’re in a group of 2 instead of 8!
After Breakfast, we went to a cool place called the “Coyote Gulch Art Village” outside of St. George in a place called Kayanta. There are around 80 artists that collaborate to set up a bunch of galleries including painting, photography, crafts, jewelry, pottery, etc. We saw some beautiful things! Saturday (the day after we were there) they had a big chalk drawing competition. We took some pictures of our favorite ones.
On Saturday, we started out our day by checking out the center of town. We went to the Tabernacle (and heard some fabulous cello/piano music!), we found a cute little toy store, we checked out the “town square” type thing that had fountains for kids to play in, and we found this random statue of Brigham Young. We’re basically BFF by now.
The highlight of our vacation was the Kite Festival! This is apparently the second largest annual event in southern Utah. There were tons of people there! We were probably the only people over the age of 12 who were there without toting along somebody who was under the age of 12. 🙂 The school kids love to come especially because if they do a certain number of hours of reading for school they get to redeem their tracking paper for a free kite!
This just had to be documented!
Despite being “grown ups” we had lots of fun with our kites!
The wind wasn’t very strong and so if you wanted your kite to stay up you had to run it basically constantly. I am proud to say that Pup and I were able to keep the kite up for at least a couple minutes!
Josh and I both received pretty impressive farmer tan lines (okay, they were just burns)!
That evening, we decided to do something manly. We went to a place called DUBs (Devey’s Urban Barbeque). It was pretty good eatin’. Although it didn’t quite match up to that BBQ we had in Texas.
On Sunday, we went to visit the St. George Temple. It was beautiful! The grounds are covered in flowers! So, of course, we had to document it! Josh took these ones!
And this is the whole family in front of the temple! I will never get over how white that building is! It is just stunning!
We had such a great vacation! And now we’re back to school and work full time!
