The weather was amazing although a bit cold at night which gave us a chance to try our heater (worked great). We left Thursday morning, checked into the RV park, took a back stage tour of Tuachan theater, had a buffet dinner there, saw the show (seats five rows back--great!), went to Grafton ghost town, toured and hiked and the Zion National Park, went to a flea market and rode a camel that was in Aladdin, went to Snow Canyon State Park and played in sand dunes and hiked on petrified sand dunes, swam, took walks, and relaxed. It was all awesome and amazing.
That is the short version---if you want the long version you will need to come visit so I can show you the 390+ pictures that we took. Here are a few of them off of our camera. I have others on my new phone but I can't figure out how to download them and Gary isn't here. I will post a few of those later.
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| traveling down in style! |
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| The St. George Temple-- we were about 2 miles away and we didn't actually have a temple view from our spot, but you could see it from across the street. We spent some time there on Friday up close. |
We couldn't take pictures during the performance of "Aladdin" but were able to take some pictures of the sets, etc. during the backstage tour. They are on my phone and I will post them later. It was fun to be able to see the many scenery and props before they were on stage and to learn how they moved the scenery on and off the stage and other "behind the scenes" stuff. We got to see many piece of clothing that the actors and actresses would wear.
While on the tour, I noticed a young woman and immediately thought it was Jennifer Chenn. However since I haven't seen Jennifer since she was 12 or so when her family was living for the summer in Hong Kong, it was hard to be sure. I have seen her parents from time to time over the years and we exchange Christmas cards , so I might have seen pictures, but 20 years is a long time. I watched her with her husband and family as we did the tour and one time I noticed her looking at me in that same "do I know them" look. That gave me courage to approach her. It was so fun to talk to her. She too remember us from that time in Hong Kong. It is a very small world. (Jena also ran into a friend from school at the performance that night. You really can't take Jena anywhere without running into someone who knows her.)
The theatre in St. George is called the Tuachan Theatre. It is a large outdoor theatre built into the mountain cliffs west of St. George. The setting allows for large and amazing things like live horses and camels coming across the stage. We sat five rows back in the middle in great seats. They even had a flying carpet scene where the carpet with Aladdin and Jasmine flew over the audience. If you ever have a chance definitely take it to see a production there. Next year they will be doing "Mary Poppins" and "Camelot". I think we are making it our UEA tradition to be there.
We haven't made any specific plans for Friday and Saturday--we thought we would just play it by ear. We enjoyed slow mornings and busy days.
Friday after a brief stop at the St. George Temple and the visitors center, we headed toward Zion National Park. Our first stop however was a ghost town, Grafton, Utah. I had always wanted to see a "ghost town" so was excited to find that there was one near Rockport, Utah. The directions indicated that we needed to turn on "Bridge Road", which made it even more fun for me because I am on this whole "bridge" kick at the moment. I like bridges. Here is a shot of the RV crossing on the one way bridge (I got to run across the bridge to take these pictures. For historical accuracy, these pictures were taken on the way back from Grafton.)
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| The view up the Virgin River |
(It was getting to be too long so Grafton will the on the next post. :) )
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