Our Spring Break

This week for our "Spring Break" we left the children at grandpa and grandma Sorensens' house for 2 days while Dennis and I were able to spend some time together. Dennis was invited to speak at the Utah Municipal Clerks Association conference in Springdale. He's becoming a very popular speaker at these kinds of meetings. He was a hit and had the best presentation at the conference. They just loved him there and he really can speak about any topic they give him. He knows his stuff. I loved watching him. I love that he comes home and talks to me about work because then at these conferences I know the lingo and can follow what he's saying.

There really isn't much in Springdale, besides Zions park, but we did enough to fill 2 days without putting me into labor. Dennis finally got to see Avatar in 3-D on the huge 4 story screen that they have there. I'll spare the review except to say that it felt a lot like Dances with Wolves to me and all the business about it being too political or about worshiping nature was a lot of hot air. It was a very good movie. Not too sure why it was in 3-D though. It was cool, but in my opinion 3-D can be a little too stimulating.We drove around some of the smaller towns in the area just looking around. I loved how green everything was there. They are about a month ahead of us in the season so it was all green and flowery and sunny. We drove to Grafton which is an old ghost town where there have been 5 movies shot there, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. There wasn't much to it, but kind of fun to look around and take some photos.

(Small shed in Grafton)

(Bell on Top of old Church/Schoolhouse, in Grafton.)

We also walked down Springdale main street and looked in the galleries and shops. I'm more of a green forest person so to me they all started to look the same, with the oranges and browns, but there is such a beauty in that area around Zions that truly is amazing. We found a lot of fun things in the yards walking around.

(More yard art. Some people are pretty creative.)

(Windart - These were amazing to watch.)

We made it home in one piece and now we're glad to be home and have several projects planned for the weekend. It's been a beautiful week.