St. George and Zions National Park

Part 2 of our Spring Break was taking Harvey the RV to St. George in southern Utah and to Zion's National Park. While there, we visited with the Grondel's who live in St. George during the winter. This was a great vacation that introduced DeeAnn to another of Utah's national parks.

Harvey felt right at home. Weather was beautiful other than the high winds we experienced on the drive down and the first day in St. George.

The tunnels on the east side of the park are rather impressive. Carved from the stone nearly 100 years ago, the 1.1 mile long tunnel is complete with windows every so often.

Checkerboard Mesa.

Some of the great views of the mountains and rock formations.

Climbers are barely noticeable on the face of the rock.

More beautiful views of different parts of the park.

Great waterfall at the Temple of Sinawava.

Grondels and us enjoying a "couples" moment at the mouth of the narrows.

One of my favorite formations, the Great White Throne.

Court of the Three Patriarchs.

More wonderful views. Could you imagine working here? I did after high school for a few months. It was a great experience.

Our first stop on Friday was a visit to the St. George Visitor's center and a walk around the grounds.

Next we made a stop at the St. George Tabernacle.

The Woodruff School, part of the historic district downtown.

The area also featured a nice water park, something pleasant for the kids to enjoy on those warm days.

At lunch Friday, this was the view. I could probably get used to something like this.

The view from Grondel's back yard.

Disneyland for Spring Break

We thought going to Disneyland during fall break was bad and you thought we would have learned not to go when school is out but nooooo, we forged ahead and went during spring break. So we resorted to Plan B: visit the rides and attractions that kids do not normally like, or do those that we can get to the front of the line. We also took advantage of the smaller crowds earlier in the day. Here are some of our moments captured for posterity:

We stayed at the Fairfield, as we enjoy the hotel and it's location to the parks. When we arrived we discovered that they had remodeled our accessible room. Once we got the front desk clerk to admit they had an accessible room with a tub, we discovered the bed was so high that DeeAnn could not even get up on the bed. I'm not sure what Fairfield was thinking but at least they were able to provide a bench for DeeAnn to step up onto. I wonder what they do for other disabled guests.

California Adventures is still being remodeled, one large construction zone. Guests entering the park are still being redirected but they have made significant progress on the new entrance.

Some of the construction walls are very cute and creative. Where else would you see people stop and take their picture in front of a construction barricade?

Cars Land is making pretty good progress, with their opening sometime next year. We visited the Blue Sky Cellar, where they exhibit some of the upcoming attractions such as Cars Land, the entrance pavilion and Little Mermaid.

Disneyland is not without construction as well. the Emporium was open while they refurbish the facade.

We took a very informative tour of the Mission Tortilla Factory where fresh tortillas are made and provided as samples at the end of the tour. Fresh tortillas are yummy!!

Flowers are in bloom through out the park.

Course, I was dragged to it's a small world.

The queen of the angry totems was out and about as well.

My obligatory picture on front of the library.