So Pretty much any vacation with my family is a spontaneous adventure! Last weekend was Presidents day weekend so my family went down south to St. George, Utah. What a great change:) going from 20 degree weather to 60 degree weather! I pulled out shorts and flippty flops and put on my shades. What bliss! My grandparents live there so we spent some much needed time with them and helped them fix up their house. We then continued to Lake Powell to see Uncle's house boat and take a ride.
We arrived to beautiful calm water. Too bad it was still too cold to go swimming in. Unfortunately we were not able to take the boat out because the propane bottles were too low and by the time we filled them it was too late...:( but no worries we had a blast. We had a slumber party that night just sitting in the harbor.
My lovely sister Nicole!!
A little tribute to our little Bieber friend...
The next day when we woke up the water was anything but calm. What felt like 100 mile winds that tried to blow me off the dock. So we headed over to Glen Canyon and the dam bridge and went into the dam visitors center.
It looks a lot cooler in person than in my crappy pictures. I couldn't fit the whole dam in my dam picture.
What will you ask happened next? My Dad decides we should go to the Grand Canyon since we were so close anyway. Its only 2 hour drive to the North rim from Lake Powell. As winds threatened to blow over our car and the rain poured down we saw this Indian guy walking down the road. My brother pulled on the breaks as I started screaming at him that would could not just pick up some kind of crazy person! We did anyway and well he got in smelling quite interesting I might add... but well I guess I should have more compassion. We heard his story about how doesn't have a car and has to hitch hike everywhere. Good guy and yes I learned my lesson.
Well to continue my great story adventurous story... the North rim was closed! bahhhhhhh!! My dad says we are so close the south rim is only 2 hours away! Well on the way there it started snowing! As you can see from the photo above I did not dress for the occasion. I mean its Arizona I thought I was getting away from the freezing cold.
We're at the Grand Canyon!!!! And its snowing like crazy!!! What the.... And the story is still not over! We drove through the roads...ran into some pretty annoyed park rangers telling us to get out pretty much cuz the roads were bad. Seriously don't they know we are from Idaho. We can handle the roads. We might as well go through Vegas right! We are so close! Lets go and drive down the strip!Vegas. On a Saturday night. Presidents day weekend. Oh boy. I was driving by the way... on the strip in bumper to bumper traffic in our beastly Ukon XL. People are rude and won't let in so you just get in their way. We were looking for a place to park and decided we would go into Caesar's palace and grab something to eat. It was really awesome but lots of really weird people. Vegas is quite the experience for girl like me that has been stuck in the mormon bubble all her life. We ran into a few strippers, a cross dresser, people handing out porn. It was interesting let me say that. Maybe late at night on a holiday weekend is not the best time to go. But I am sure in the future I will be back in Vegas. We headed back to St. George once again from the long day of traveling and got there at about two in the morning all exhausted.
Well this was not the trip that I had expected but fun the nonetheless. Just hanging out with my family was a great time and seeing new things. If your not used to how my family operates you would probably be pretty annoyed about how spontaneous and crazy my family is. I can get pretty annoyed at times but its another experience to hold in memory and laugh about. I love that that my family is willing to do anything. Drive through crazy snow storms and do anything at the spur of the moment. It never gets boring and there is never a dull moment. Sometimes we take on way to much and go a little nuts but that's the Polatis family! I love you guys!
