Spontaneity

In continuing with our goal of visiting areas close to home that we have never been to, we made a very spontaneous trip this weekend to see the Castle Valley Mormon Pageant. I'm amazed at how I could grow up in a small town, in this state, and yet not have heard of many of the small towns that were in this area. The pageant was really well done with live horses and covered wagons and enough excitement to keep my oldest three children entertained. Grant entertained himself by eating rocks, throwing rocks and banging rocks on the seats.

We mingled with the locals at the park and the rodeo (just peeking in from the outside gates) and ate at their little restaurant.

They had a really cool museum that the kids loved.

We stopped by to visit an old friend from our RA days at Utah State and then went to the "Mini Grand Canyon" in the San Rafael Swell (pronounced by the locals as Rafell, in case you ever want to go mingle, too).

And just in case you think I am really brave to be on this ridiculously unguarded, way too high ledge, just know that I am TERRIFIED of heights. But, I must be brave for my children (you can't see, but I am clutching Maren's hand because she is not terrified of heights).

We saw really cool petroglyphs and pictographs from only about 2000 years ago (!!).

We stayed in a hotel, went swimming and the kids all got up at 6 a.m. just to make sure that we wouldn't miss the free donuts and fruit loops. We had a great time and wore ourselves out with so much fun!