St. George, Utah

We arrived into St. George on Monday April 23 and spent 4 nights.

We did a lot of errand running the first few days.  The highlight of our trip was on Thursday, when our niece Tiffany and her three kids from Las Vegas, drove up to spend the day.   We went to a couple of sites and parks, ate dinner and ended the day watching the kids swim in the RV park pool.

Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum- This museum displays over 300 stuffed animals from all over the world.  The museum covers more than 33,000 square feet and is one of the largest displays of its kind in the world.

Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm - This rare site preserves a 200 million year old lake ecosystem that includes dinosaurs, fishes, plants, sedimentary structures and other animals.  The museum building was built over the actual discovery site.  They are continuing to dig parts of the lake ecosystem to continue to preserve more of the fossils.

Went to Thunder Junction to check out the park and garden.  Beautiful site but the park side of the site was primarily geared for younger children - 5-12 years of age.

Nicholas swimming in the pool, and when he came out of the water, this was how his hair formed - kind of like a foreign figure.

Next day we went onto Baker, NV.

Lake Powell, Arizona

We spent a week in Cottonwood and we were sick the entire time, so we did nothing except made a couple of trips to the grocery store.  Luckily we had been in the area before, but was disappointed we didn't make it to a couple of our favorite wineries.

We travelled to Lake Powell on April 9 and will stay for two weeks.  The "crud" has stayed with us for the first week here, so we did a little, but took it pretty easy.

Our site in Wahweap Campground was great and we had an excellent view of the lake.  Overall the weather was good, but we had at least three different days of wind with 20 mph and 40-50 mile gusts, and only one day with some rain.

Glen Canyon Dam, is the second largest dam in the US with Hoover Dam being the largest.  It was built between 1956-66 and is still under major controversy as to it's need.  The Glen Canyon steel arch bridge when built was the second-highest bridge of it's kind in the world, sitting 700 feet above the river.

Upper Antelope Canyon:

Boat ride through Navajo and Antelope Canyons:

Hanging Garden Hike:

We took a drive on the 89A/89 loop through Kanab visiting Horseshoe Bend, Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center, Vermillion Cliffs and then Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument.

While at Lake Powell, I finished my second lap throw/afghan and as soon as we arrived in St. George on April 23, I looked up the Elks Lodge.  We dropped two of them off at the St. George Elks club on Tuesday and then with the extra room in the coach, we went to JoAnns to buy more yarn.  The Elks club will donate them to a great charity organization or use them to get donations for charities - such as Alzheimer units, Veterans or nursing homes.