Spring Break, 2nd Half.

A continuation of spring break activities seems ridiculously misplaced in a mid-June post. But, since I'm currently counting our blog as keeping a family history, and since I labelled the previous post "part 1"--implying that more would follow--well, here's a bunch of information that is of marginal interest to anyone besides ourselves.

(Anyhow, what else would I do with the many pictures that I took with the precise intention of using them in a blog post?)

It seems like just two months ago that we enjoyed our spring break to the Grand Canyon.

We returned home just in time for an unseasonable, but stunningly beautiful snowstorm. I love snow, I love rain. I love sunshine and wind and clouds. I just love variety in weather. So out the kids went into the snow.

But, this was heartbreaking. Because I also love blossoms, I was sad to see trees all over town broken and ruined under the weight of the snow that fell so fast and wet. It seemed unnatural to have blossom-covered branches piled up on curbs for the garbage pick-up.

Since we still had a couple days to party, we headed to nearby Midway for an over-nighter with cousins. We relaxed way out there in the countryside, where cattle and horses grazed outside the window, and the kids could still go swimming on the premises. A very ideal vacation spot. I've thought for years, since I first saw Midway as a 19-year-old, that the place was perfect, exactly where I would settle if I had to stay in Utah. Unfortunately, a lot of people had the same thoughts and built a bunch of homogeneous subdivisions on previously charming farmland. ( Sorry for the feisty digression...Matt loves it when I start spouting opinions about people building way too close to each other.)
Back to spring break. Midway is beautiful; I love visiting that side of our mountains. It was a great way to wrap up our short vacation time.

That concludes the chapter on spring break. I don't know where we'll go next year, but I'm already thinking about it. Someplace historical, classically American, relatively nearby...maybe Yellowstone? Mt. Rushmore? Bryce Canyon and Zion's National Park? Dare I try Moab? So much to see, so little time off of school.