Spring Break Days 4-5

On the next two days of Spring Break we went to a ghost town.  Kenny had been teasing the girls that it's called a Ghost town because only ghosts live there.  Needless to say, the girls were nervous about going.  On the drive there we heard Emily whisper to Ashley in a very serious voice, "Do you think anyone makes it out alive?"  :-)  When we got to the sign that we were there I could tell they were nervous so I reassured them (like I'd tried to do many times already) and tell them what a ghost town really is.
They soon started to relax and even semi-enjoyed looking at the old buildings.  I don't know though if they would request going there again, just to be on the safe side. ;-)

 An old gold mining car

 We tried to get Ty in, but he wasn't feeling it! 

 An old shell of what looked like an early plane

 An old Wells Fargo building

 Part of houses

 The girls thought these were cool, but dangerous.

The next day we went on a hike that the people at our condo told us about.  It's in the town of Leeds (just 10 miles away from St. George) and leads to 2 different waterfalls.  Apparently everyone else had been told about this hike too, because it was very crowded!!  I even saw one of my students on the hike!  Emily even wanted to go swimming in the water at the base of the waterfall.  It was ice cold but she had her mind made up so she jumped in with her dad (and then quickly got out!)  It was another great hike and great day!

 Excited to start the hike (and yes, they even insist on wearing dresses while hiking.  They are definitely girls!)

 We made it to the main waterfall

 The above picture made me very nervous for Kenny to take, but he kept saying, "Oh, it will be fine!"  I guess that's a mom's job to worry!

 Tyler being his cutie-pie self

 The beautiful scenery on the way back

 The real fam :-)

 Ashley "holding" Tyler while I got a shot of Emily being brave and jumping in the little pond.

 The water was ice cold, but Emily was brave enough to get in and even convinced her dad to do it too!

 Happy to be almost done with the hike and finding a big dead tree

The video of Kenny and Emily finally jumping in the water.  She was very brave!!