Dixie Land

For Fall Break, Andrew and I went down to Dixieland (a.k.a. St. George). 

It has been our list to do since we got married and we finally made it happen! 

For our first night we found a camping spot and then we explored the area. We tried several different hiking trails, 

but it was not meant to happen. One trail we almost got our car stuck in the sand and the other trail was straight up a 

mountain- which we did climb but it did not lead to the destination that it claimed, and climbing back down was 

a little iffy. By that point we were hungry so we called it quits for hiking for the day. 

That night we camped in our tent. We read a "scary story." It was a choose your own adventure and 

Andrew was not into it so he kept picking the path that he thought would end the story the 

story fastest. 😂 We played a game (one of my favorite things) and then Andrew surprised me 

with Toy Story #4. We had not seen it yet, but he bought it for us to watch. It was such a fun surprise!

Everything was fine and dandy until we were woken up by 25 mph winds for 4 hours! It kept us awake 

for most of the night. It was so loud with our tent whipping in the wind. We woke up the next morning 

with dust all over our tent, pillows, and our face. Showering never felt so good!

We went paddle boarding at Sand Hollow State Park. We are really trying to not let summer go. It was a little too 

cold to get into the water but we really enjoyed paddle boarding around the lake and exploring little "islands." 

While we were in St. George we were able to go to the temple. It's closing at the beginning of November for 

reconstruction and we had never been there so we wanted to make sure we went. It was beautiful. 

We are trying to get to all the temples in Utah. We are currently at 9/17 for 53%. 

For the rest of the day we explored St. George. We toured Brigham Young's summer home. 

I love church history sites.

We also went to Dixie Rock which was one of my favorite places on our vacation. It was so much 

fun to explore and to look down at the city. Right next to Dixie Rock was a desert garden that was 

all decorated for Halloween! It was a lot of fun to walk around and see everything. 

We hiked the temple quarry trail. It was a really easy walk and it's where the pioneers went to get rock 

to build the temple. The ending destination was just a bunch of rock. But we had never done the trail before 

so it was fun to do something new. 

St. George was good to us! It was such a fun place to explore and it has so many fun things. 

We are excited to go back and see the things we missed and revisit a few favorites.