Wandering Orbit

We had a fairly quiet week, driving up to the Salt Lake City area on Friday. We attended our stake conference at the Bountiful Regional Center today.

It has been a quieter week. We've been in St. George and Cedar City. For Valentine's the Mr. and I snuck away to the Cedar City Utah Temple by ourselves.  Beautiful sunset on snowcapped mountains as we drove there. Today we attempted to go to the Kanarraville Ward, Cedar City Utah Stake Except it was stake conference.  The chapels were far flung enough that we didn't end up finding another one for sacrament meeting. We just went back to the campground and did our own scripture study and Sunday activities.

We had a pretty quiet week.  On Thursday we were in Page, Arizona and headed over to the visitor center for Glen Canyon Dam.   The visitor center had a lot of really cool exhibits, a Junior Ranger Corner, and you could take a tour of the dam (we didn't) that I overheard was similar to the tour of Hoover Dam (which we've done). Check out this huge bolt and tools for working on the dam! We've seen three of the four dams listed here! I don't know if we'll get to the 4th... Not far, at least as the crow flies, is Lee's Ferry. This was a Mormon-run settlement and ferry across the Colorado River, it is also the site where John Wesley Powell launched his expedition through the Grand Canyon   We drove past the Vermillion Cliffs     Really beautiful!   We also passed the entrance to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon   Our last stop of the day was to go to Pipe Spring National Monument This was a for

Monday we drove to Springerville, Arizona to find another Madonna of the Trail.  Kinda funny that it was next door to a McDonald's! We started out with some promising weather! Then we drove through some serious snowstorm, although the road was relatively clear and dry   Tuesday we went to the Snowflake Arizona Temple first thing in the morning Then we headed to Petrified Forest National Park. All around it are places selling petrified wood (not sure if they really only charge 25 cents or if this is a retro sign) Even the sign for the town of Holbrook used petrified wood Not surprising that they have this sign in several places inside the park   We were driving Route 66 part of our way there And we saw a Planter's Peanut vehicle! (License plate says NUTS4U) The park included the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert There were some slabs of petrified wood in the Rainbow Forest Museum. The sign for this stated that it