The Ups and Downs of Southern Utah

Hooray! We had a great family vacation! Campbell did exceptionally well in the car and there were no mishaps to speak of! We stayed at Brian Head, Utah which just happens to be Utah's highest ski resort on top of a very steep road at the high. It was beautiful, but I'm not crazy about driving on steep mountain roads! And our stay in Brian Head actually started with a blizzard!
Here is a picture of us running through the gale force winds to dinner in the lodge, and then how the world looked when we woke up in the morning. Of course we were totally unprepared for the snow...check out Ammon's hoodie:


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We made it down the mountain on Sunday to spend time with the Singletons in the much more temperate Cedar City (which was great, and I might add the highlight of Campbell's vacation.:-) The thaw started on Monday and by Wednesday we could was barely find any snow on the ground.

We visited Zion Canyon:


We visited Bryce Canyon:

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And Campbell loved looking at the scenery through his 'noculars:


We visited the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs (Come on, you know you always wonder about it when you pass by):


We went fishin' at Paragona Lake (pronounced pear-a-guuuuna, as we learned):


We visited Kolob Canyons:


We visited Cedar Breaks (very very quickly because it was coooooold...burrr):

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And even took in a play in Cedar City! Jealous? If there was any letdown at all, I'd have to say it was the food. But as Ammon pointed out, we weren't exactly going somewhere "known" for the food. The food highlights were the Navajo Tacos Ammon insisted we seek out ("Indian Food" according to Ammon) and the bread sticks at the Pizza Factory in Cedar. (GREAT recommendation Jaime!)

Of course, it was great to have my Mom around...especially because she chose to sit next to Campbell nearly the whole time and "terrorize" him by threatening to touch his ankle or put a blanket on him. We all laughed so hard when Campbell called out "Moooooommmy...Grandma's doing something naughty to me." I actually got to turn around and say, "Now Mom, do I need to remind you to stay on your side of the car?"

Campbell's other great line: "Mommy, don't tell me what to do...you're being very bossy." When I told him that I'm the Mommy and Mommy's are supposed to be bossy he replied, "No, Daddy's the boss."

As for me my body...I wish I could say I toughed out all of the hikes, but, I'm afraid I was beaten by a 3 year old a couple of times. (The altitude always gets to me - I once fainted on a High School ski trip.) Campbell saw a lot of the canyons from Ammon's shoulders...and since Ammon refused to carry me, I saw some of them from a stationary viewpoint. :-)