Zion, Mountain Meadows, and...

So Staci has posted about the first half of our summer vacation in July so I thought I would finish up and post about the second half. On a side note, does it bother anyone else how tiny of a window it is to see your post while editing it, and how hard it is to arrange photos? It totally bugs.

This is a picture from the fishing trip that I really like.

On one day we drove to Enterprise, UT to visit Staci's grandma and afterwards we drove to St. George. On our way we stopped at the Mountain Meadows Massacre memorial for a couple minutes. That was such a tragic series of events, check my other blog for some ramblings on it. The picture below has the actual location where the massacre took place in the back ground.
We stayed in my grandma's house in St. George, which is available for family use (a great place to have available, the last time I stayed there was the night before we married). We woke up early and headed for Zion National Park (not Zion's National Park, thanks Tyson for correcting me, albeit in an insensitive and arrogant way :) jk).

I have been wanting to hike Angel's Landing for quite some time now and I finally made it down there to do it. It was a great hike, definitely worth doing, and starting early in the morning is a must for hiking in the summer. We got a little later start than we had hoped but still early enough so we were done a little after noon. We felt bad for the people just starting as we were finishing.



When we got to the top we actually had a couple minutes with nobody else up there with us. It was very nice to have a peaceful couple minutes up where the angels land with my very own angel....oh Staci I know you love it :-)
We found that the chipmunks are very friendly at the top, a little too friendly at times.
This was the closest I've been to a vulture this big so I had to take a picture of it.
This is a real pic, I wasn't photo shopped in.
And then we went down.

That was the highlight of the vacation, so much fun.

The following week we went back down to Cedar City for a couple birthdays and a baptism. After our nephew Tasin was baptized we had a picnic at the park and played around. It was fun playing in the park with my nieces and nephews.I played with a Transformer

Played soccer with Tason
And played tag on the toys, (having the Spiderman t-shirt on helped me climb on the toys much better. It was lot of fun. Oh and we couldn't touch the ground.

But they did wear me out very quickly, I was always so confused as a kid when people would tell me I had too much energy for them, I couldn't understand how, I guess I still don't know why but I do know that little kids have so much stinkin energy.

In the end we spent three weekends in a row in Cedar City/Enoch but all things must come to an end sometime.

(hint, I put the picture of the sunset to represent our summer vacation coming to a close)
I know I was inconsistent on having explanations to photos switching from being above the pictures and below the picture; but I couldn't do everything perfect otherwise there would be nothing for me to improve upon. :-)