Spring Break

Our big plan for Spring Break this year was the same as it has been every other year -- try to have everyone alive at the end of the day. Poor Kate got cheated because her break at BYU didn't line up with the break at the public school, but she cheerfully went off to school each morning anyway. Well, despite all of our bad intentions, we ended up having great adventures.

First off, Allen & I got to perform with the Early Music choir he organized this semester. These BYU students came to our house every Saturday morning for 2 hours to rehearse and we learned some fabulous music which we performed in the gallery of the HFAC on campus.  It was so fun and turned out really well.


Then Thursday morning we took off on a minivan brigade with the M's and the H's headed south.  We switched Sarah for Sebi for the ride down and sadly she made their ride much more interesting than Sebi made ours.  Let's just say we owe them a interior cleaning of the car.  And she got a new shirt out of the deal.



Our first stop of the day was Goblin Valley where we enjoyed a VERY windy picnic overlooking the hoodoos.



Sarah talked Allen into giving her his coat because it was so freezing.



Once we got down into the valley among the goblins the temperature was actually perfect -- warm without being hot.  That place must be blistering in the summer.  Everybody had lots of fun climbing all over the hoodoos and exploring.  How refreshing to be at a park where they haven't had to wall everything off behind plexi-glass panels.  I hadn't been prepared for how vast the valley was -- an completely hidden until you were right upon it.  I was worried that our children, who don't have the collective good sense God gave a beansprout, would wander off and be lost forever.  Even though there were 6 capable and engaged adults, we were only barely able to keep 10 children (!) herded in similar directions.