Anniversary Trip

I can hardly believe it but in just 2 short weeks Jake and I will have been married for 1 year! Crazy how time flies...But due to Jake's crazy school schedule we will not have time to go anywhere for our anniversary. So we decided that since Jake got about 5 days off in between Winter Semester and Spring Semester last week it would be the perfect time to go! The only problem was that it fell right over Easter weekend so we couldn't go far so that we could be with our family for Easter. St. George seemed like the perfect spot for us to get away together, have fun, and get some sunshine! Jake had never been to Southern Utah before so that made it even better. So with a little help from my *awesome* cousin Mindy's husband in getting a hotel room we headed to St. George Wednesday morning as soon as Jake finished his last final!

After we got to St. George, got checked in, and relaxed at the hotel for a bit we headed to our family's favorite Mexican Restaurant in St. George...Pancho and Lefty's...soooo yummy. Then we headed off to do some mini golfing and the batting cages. Afterwards we spent the rest of the night at the pool! Felt sooo good to be able to outside, after dark, in a swimming pool, and it was still warm! 

The next morning we got up early for breakfast. I'm pretty sure my very favorite part of staying in a hotel is the continental breakfast...no clue why, that and the swimming pool will get me to just about any hotel. After that we headed to the temple and to look around the visitors center. I love the St. George temple, it is so beautiful!

We spent the morning walking around town, seeing the sights, and had lunch and TwentyFive Main. Then it was back to the pool :) We spent about 3 hours just lounging out, me reading my book, Jake sleeping and watching his Cubs play. It was perfect, except for the few weird places that I somehow managed to miss getting sunscreen on... I ended up with some terrible sunburn lines and even worse pain! A quick trip to the store for some Aloe cleared that up nicely though. Afterwards we went to one of my favorites Nielsen's Frozen Custard, got some Bumbleberry Custard and went for a drive. I took Jake to see the softball fields that I spent many hours playing at back in the day and just saw some sights. That night we went to the Mongolian Barbecue for dinner, Jake had been dying to go since he learned that St. George had one. It was my first time, but it was pretty good! We spent the rest of the evening walking around the outlets and buying baby stuff :) I couldn't help myself :)

After breakfast on Friday morning we went to Zions National Park to do a little biking. We thought this early in the season we'd have the park mostly to ourselves...we were very wrong. Turns out it was "Free National Park weekend" and EVERYONE thought it would be a good weekend to go...There were so many people I couldn't believe it! But we still had a lot of fun, we were lucky to find a parking spot in the park and got on our bikes down at the bottom and rode up the Canyon. It was so much fun! I get tired a lot easier carrying this little baby around with me, so we didn't get to go up a lot of the hills I know Jake would have liked to go on but it was still good. He doesn't complain :)

Overall we had the perfect mini vacay before heading back to Manti to spend Easter weekend with the family. It was so nice to get away from work, school, and everything else and just have a weekend to ourselves to celebrate our anniversary a little bit early. Now if only that awesome St. George 70-80 degree weather would move it's way north and warm us Northerners up a little bit!!