I LOVE St. George

I was getting so tired of the cold, the snow, and especially the inversion, and my friend Brittany from work was talking all about how she was going to st George and how it was suppose to be in the 60's...Jenn (also from work) and i were way jealous...so we decided to go down too!! Jenn used to live there so she had some friends there and Lauri was kind enough to let me stay with her! :) It was one of the best weekends ever! It consisted of junk food (well for me), watching North and South, and the DIXIE DIRECT! It is this card and book that you get for about 35 dollars and has all these coupons in it, everything we did on saturday had to come from there, so we got AMAZING deals ALL day. It was freakin sweet! now I just need to go back for the "beauty" part of it.....

The day began with going to this museum that i forgot the name of...but it was all of this guys animals he has shot from all over the world and you go through different places, like africa, the tundra and asia, it was AWESOME. You get these phone things that you push the numbers on to listen to him go through the different places and about the different animals. Pictured above is me with one of my favorite animals...i guess that's what i get for growing up in south texas...aligators everywhere!!

And of course how can i not love armadillos and javelinas!! I was chased by some javelinas at girls camp one year...it was scary.

Lauri and I in the African section, near the end. When i saw the giraffe i was laughin so hard cuz it looks so funny trying to bend down just to drink the water...poor thing.

After our museum trip we went to the Pizza factory where i ran into Brittany and said hi to her, but on the way there we passed this telephone booth...it wasn't real, but i knew i needed to take a picture in it, using my own phone.. From there we went and saw the dinosaur prints! who knew that dinosaurs lived in st george, and that it use to be a lake...crazy! I wish i would have taken some pictures of that, i'll have to next time.
Next came spoon me. I can't help it, every time i say the name it makes me laugh, it doesn't help that it has signs that say "spooning hours" for their business hours and "Now Spooning" for their now hiring poster and as you leave it says "thanks for spooning" on the door. Other than the name that's dang funny, it was SOOOOOOO good. Lauri didn't think i would like it, but i really really do. In less than a week i found the one in provo and went with becci. The only thing that the provo one lacks are the t-shirts and pants that say "spoon me" on them. I want one.
By this time we were already exhausted and had to watch her nephew and niece in about an hour so we went home to relax and watch some more of north and south. When the kids got there we took them to jump n jacks. It is mainly there for little kids, but it was so much fun. The big slid was so much fun, and tryin to climb up the stairs sometimes was a bit tricky on some of the other slides...... :)

Anyway, so the weekend was amazing and we finished it off on sunday by finishing north and south...which makes me feel a little pathetic for my own love life, but still an amazing movie. :)

DISNEYLAND!!!!

For new years I went to St George to visit Lauri and just hang out in beautiful St George, and we somehow managed to convince Lauri's mom to take a trip down to disneyland with us. I hadn't been since I was 11 and it was with a cousin I didn't really know, so it was still fun, but it wasn't like I could run around the place acting.....well like me :)

Somehow we did it! I got that Friday off of work, and we left on Thursday, well Technically Friday morning at 1:30. We drove all night, arrived at 7, got the tickets, parked at the hotel and walked across the street to the resort. I always new it was called the happiest place on earth, but it REALLY IS the happiest place on earth!!!

I was so excited just to see the sign. We were able to have a "magical morning" and go in before the rest of the park opened....literally, I almost cried....I was just so happy to be there. Lauri's been there so many times that she has the whole system down so we didn't have to wait in hardly any lines...except two, and they weren't even THAT long...oh wait, but the tower of terror was WAY long, and i'm not gonna lie...not worth it. :) I know Lauri loved that ride, but me not so much. I'm not a big fan of elevators as it is, i try to avoid them at all costs, stairs are my friends, and the whole ride is being in an elevator!!! holy crap. that's all i have to say. I was so scared i couldn't even scream...i just clung on for my life to the little bar that was on the side of my seat. But after all is said and done, i'm glad to say that i actually went on it, though i doubt it will happen again.




Lauri's friend Becca came and met us for a few hours to play in disneyland. This is us being scared before we went into the haunted house...it wasn't half as scary as the tower of terror......






I made friends with the cow maggie. She was having so much fun just sticking her tongue out, so of course i thought it was funny and seemed like a good photo opp!



Just another picture in the happiest place on earth...it's just fun to be somewhere that makes you smile just to look around.... i've already had three dreams about disneyland since coming home, and i keep wanting to go back....maybe in another 10 years or so.



This has to be one of my favorite pictures from the trip. :) it was taken at the beginning of the day right as we walked in....and that's pretty much how i felt the whole trip. :) Thanks Lauri's mom and of course you lauri for being my friend at disneyland...and my friend in general!! p.s. i need to come to st george agian! :)