Fun trip to St. George

Our trip to St. George was great.  We left Wednesday evening about 6:30 and got to St. George about 11:15.  We ran into some heavy traffic because there was some bridge repair going on just before we hit Fillmore.  As you can see from the picture, the traffic went on forever in front of us..

As soon as we got past the bridge the road was wide open in front of us. 

Thursday morning the men went golfing and Judy and I went shopping.  We both found things that we wanted and some things we didn't need.  We always have a good time shopping.  We finished up at the grocery store just about the time the men called that they wanted to be picked up.  We picked them up and on the way back to the condo Neal wanted to stop and see what the guy on the side of the road was selling.  Neal bought a piece of "art".

Friday morning we all went golfing and had a fun time.  The wind was blowing most of the day but we powered through it!

Saturday Judy and I made cookies and delivered them with a thank you note from me for the great care given me at the hospital the last time I was in St. George.  It was fun to take them over and surprise the ER and the 3rd floor people.

This is just a  picture of Neal relaxing while watching the football game. 

While Judy and I were delivering the cookies and picking up the pie for Ron's birthday dinner, Ron and Neal went out on the golf course to chip a few balls.  While out there, they found each found their own handful of golf balls.  These are the ones Neal found.

Sunday morning we went to church and then breakfast and then back to the condo to clean things up, pack and head for home.  We left about 5:00 and got home about 10:00  The delay was caused again by the construction on the road.  Luckily we found some people who knew where the back roads were.  We stopped in Fillmore for a bathroom break and that is when we heard that the freeway was nearly at a standstill because of the volume of traffic combined with construction.  A couple in a pick up truck who were headed to Mona area said for us to follow them.  We did and it saved us almost 4 hours of time by going on the frontage roads from Fillmore to Mona.  The pictures below are looking at I 15 from the frontage road we were on.  We clipped along at about 65 mph and the freeway was going at about 5 to 10 miles an hour from just outside Fillmore past Nephi!!

One funny thing that happened.  While on this dark side road we just about hit a stupid pelican just standing in the road.  Seriously, the dumb thing had landed there, right in our lane and acted like he owned the whole road.  We were able to dodge him but I sure worried about him getting hit by someone else.  It happened too fast for me to get a picture.  But, it was sure a funny thing.

It was a great trip and we had a fabulous time!