One Day Getaway

The day after Easter I headed to St. George with Heather, a girl I work with at CHA, and her roommate, Marcy. Casey has to work this week and it is my schoool's spring break so I said peace out to him and went on a girls only getaway. On our way down I felt bad having to make a couple stops to use the bathroom (darn pregnancy bladder) and we stopped in Beaver to get Marcy some squeaky cheese. I had never known there was a cheese factory there and apparently the squeaky cheese is a really big deal because the line was super long and everyone had multiple bags of the cheese. Me, I'm not a fan of the texture and don't really care for the stuff.

When we got to St. George we checked into the Crystal Inn which from the outside looks a little sketchy but it was actually a really nice hotel with a great breakfast and nice pool. We hung around the hotel for a bit while Marcy took a cat nap and Heather and I went and stuck our feet in the pool. For dinner/lunch we went to Taste of Asia which is delicious and if you haven't eaten there in St. George I highly recommend it. I tried a coconut chicken curry that I loved. After eating we headed out to do some hiking around Dixie rock. I showed them where the "birth canal" or the "crack" was and went in for a little bit but soon realized there was no way my pregnant belly would fit through the crack. So I sent Heather and Marcy through it on their own and I headed up top to see them get through it. They went a second time and climbed up the hole that's near the crack. I remember it being a little easier but I think it's because I have much longer legs and could reach up to ledges a lot easier than my short friends:). I had to just offer encouragement without being able to tell them how to actually get up because I couldn't see anything from the top and eventually with shaking bodies they were able to figure it out and felt very successful reaching the top of the opening!

Since it is nicknamed the birth canal we decided to get a picture of me re-birthing them:)

We did a quick shopping trip to Target and Ross where I found $12 maternity capris (score! I haven't found cheaper than $30 anywhere else) and then we headed back to the hotel for a dip in the pool. Pool was a little cold so we wanted to get into the hot tub where a big group of high school boys were hogging up the whole thing. Heather decided just to go and get in anyways and when she got there they all decided to leave which was nice for us! After the pool we needed another little outing where we got some Jack in the Box food and icecream at Dairy Queen. To top off the night we rented a chick flick and went to bed.

The next day we had a decilicous hotel breakfast, then headed to the St. George temple to walk around and visit the visitors center so Marcy (who got back last summer from a mission in France) could talk to the sister missionaries who spoke french. We were in luck because there was a sister who not only spoke french but was from France.



Unfortunatley the pictures taken from Heather's iphone aren't showing up very well on the blog, but even though you can't see our faces you can see the beautiful white temple!

 They hadn't ever seen Brigham Young's house in St. George so I took them there and we were going to go on a tour through it but the group before us was taking too long so we just took a picture in the trees and left to go eat some lunch at Honolulu Grill.

After we ate we went up Snow Canyon and went on a short hike to a sand hill. We didn't stay for long because it was windy and sand isn't very fun when it is stinging your legs and getting in your face. Heather and Marcy hiked to the top and ran down once while I took pictures.

After that we decided to go take another dip in the pool where some more annoying high school boys were in the hot tub and left when we went and sat in it again haha, (guess we have that effect on young boys) and then we jumped in the pretty cold pool, went back to the hot tub, then layed out and got a little bit of sun to dry off. We made one last stop at the Rocky Mountain chocolate place and got some fudge and carmeled apples, yum. We headed home and enjoyed games of name that sound and guess the disney song! It was a great quick trip and I'm sure glad we came home only after a day because as soon as I got home I started feeling really nauseous from my family's pass around flu and didn't have a very fun rest of the eveving.