Spring Break

This last week was Nate's spring break: a novelty, coming from BYU. We didn't go anywhere. We did all sorts of other crazy stuff though and now I can't even remember it all. We did laundry! Yes! um ... we watched a couple movies with Joey. Okay ... On Wednesday we took Joey to Discovery Park, in Cedar City: a somewhat cool park with tons of stuff to do. We went grocery shopping and went to the Pastry Pub for lunch as our St. Patricks day celebration. It was very warm on Wed and Thurs. On Thursday we went to the St. George Tabernacle, and then played at the water park (not an amusement park) next to it. It's just a little park kind of place with running water that kids can play in. It's a great discovery! Then we went to twenty five main cafe, it was pretty good. It was considered to be our "vacation". Yesterday we took Joey to the Pet Store. They let you hold everything that is holdable and Joey loved it. We didn't hold anything, though. He loves fish right now and when we got to a clown fish he called it Nemo and went and found Dori, too. We then drove out to the Parowan Gap and saw the petroglyphs. This place is about 20 miles from Cedar City. It was considered to be a sacred place, or was a "temple" of sorts, some Indian's say. Some pertroglyphs are said to be the sacred 260 calendar. Near by is a spring with a pile of rocks that look strangely like an altar. When Parley Pratt was exploring the area and bringing in people to settle it he talked to an Indian cheif who told him that the name of the place meant "God's own house". Nate and I did a little bit of research and found an interesting legend surrounding it, of which I'll only tell part: A great darkness fell over the land, and the darkness was inpenitrable, not even by fire. It was dark for a few days. One Indian leader, during this darkness, told all the people to climb up to the top with him and all hold hands standing in a circle, then he shot an arrow into the sky and peirced a hole out of which a white light appeared. hmmmmm .... interesting. I believe it was Moroni that went through the Manti and St. George areas and dedicated both temple sites. The area used to be hugely populated with the Sevier-Fremont Indians, some of who spent years in the Zion Park area, and by the Paihute Indians. Then we drove through Parowan and saw the old rock church, built in 1866, but it was closed.

Joey and Nate also built a snowman and built a lot of legos. One day when putting down Daniel for his nap, we found that Joey had resituated his bed onto the floor for his nap. I didn't take many pictures of the week, but here is what I do have.