The first thing we decided to do was the go-carts. We had fun chasing each other around the track in these carts. 
McKenna
Lindsay wouldn't drive the first time we did the track. She was scared that the cart would tip over around the curves, or that she would crash. The second time we went I told her I would ride with her and she had to drive. Of course she loved it and wanted to go again, but we had used all of our tickets for that ride.Then we went to the miniature golf course. We haven't played mini-golf for years so it was fun spending some time doing that. The weather was perfect and it was nice being out in the sun.
On Saturday we got up and headed towards home. We decided to see Bryce Canyon on our way home even though it was out of the way since we didn't know when we would ever be that way again. We stopped at another museum full of animals that was a lot bigger than the other one. It had all kinds of animals, bugs, spiders, butterflies and even fish. The owner had been collecting for years and had finally opened his own place. The kids really thought it was cool and once again the girls took tons of pictures! The weather in St. George had been awesome, but out by Bryce it was a lot colder and there was even snow on the ground still. Bryce Canyon is totally different than Zions. It was incredible, but kind of freaked me out a little bit because of the heights. Along the path there are steep drop offs and of course that made me really paranoid.
Marcy and Perry at our first stop.
McKenna and Brooke on the path. Brooke kept going over by the edge and trying to scare me...which it did. I didn't like that part of it, but it really was amazing being right there by all those awesome rock formations. So we finally headed home. We ended up on a scenic road that I can hardly begin to describe. First we were in the rocks...more rocks than I have seen in my entire life. For miles upon miles upon miles of nothing but being in the middle of rocks. We were rounding curves that had no guard rails and nothing but drop offs on both sides. As far as we could see there was nothing but rocks. It was really cool, but a little scary. When we finally came out of the rocks hours later, we went into the forest. We climbed, and climbed, and climed. I couldn't believe how high we were. At one point we stopped in the road to see two wild turkeys cross the road. Right down the road from that we stopped to watch a herd of elk that was only 30 yards away from us. I kept telling Dave that I couldn't believe this road and how crazy it was that we were on it. Usually when you drive in the mountains you stay mainly low and there are mountains high around you....not on this road. When we reached the top there was nowhere else to go to get any higher...we were at the very top. We could look out across the valley and I swear CLOUDS were lower than us! It was insane. Dave made us all get out of the car so we could document the moment!
We had driven for hours and in all that time we had only passed two cars going in the opposite direction, and we had passed only one car going in our direction. We drove forever even after this picture looking for somewhere to eat and stay. We kept coming to little towns, some of them that didn't even have gas stations, where there was no fast food places, and the ones that did actually have a restaraunt were closed. We were all starving and tired. We stopped finally at the first town that had a decent motel and a Burger King! The scenery on the road was absolutely incredible and I am glad we went that way, but it is a little freaky being that far out in the middle of nowhere. I told Dave that we werent in BFE, we were in BFFE!! Sunday we made it home. We had a really fun trip and it was fun going somewhere we had never been before. It just wasn't that fun coming home to the cold!
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