Hurricane, UT 2008

We lost touch for the last half of October, and it was mostly due to how much we have going on. My aunt and uncle (Debbie and Nick) own a vacation home in Hurricane, Ut. We have been wanting to get out of town to spend some time as family, Debbie and Nick were so kind to allow us to go and take advantage of their beutiful home. It is located in the perfect spot to allow access to both St. George and Zion's nation park. This time of year was just right, it wasn't too hot or too cold. One of the higlights of this vacation was hiking in Zion's. We chose to hike the river walk, and because of the time of year we had very few tourists to have to deal with. We also spent a fair amount of time just relaxing at the house. We rented several movies (always one of our favorite things to do on vacation). We were able to see The Incredible Hulk and Vantage Point. We both thought the new Hulk movie was pretty good. It was certainly much better than the waste of time that was released a couple of years ago. Our opinion of the movie Vantage point was that it was too violent, and it got boring having to watch the same scene multiple times. In St. George we took a tour of Brigham Young's winter home. I think Jen was the most impressed with the home, and more especially with the pioneer's version of a micro-wave oven, which was created by pouring hot water into a basin which sat under a dinner plate....which in effect kept the food warm. Jen has not stopped talking about how cool she thought it was for a week. Good times, we were able to hang out as a family and spend good valuable time together. When we were getting ready to leave we hesitated in leaving a heap of Noah's diapers in the garbage at the house...we finally concluded that it was best to throw our garbage away at the cheveron across the street. We had an audience of the workers on their smoke break. Why is it that smokers always hang out by dumsters :)