St. George, Utah

My favorite place to visit is St. George, Utah.

St. George is about an hour and a half from Las Vegas, Nevada, in Southern Utah. I love going to St. George because it's always sunny and warm! On our last visit we stayed at a hotel and when we got up in the mornings and went to the pool, it was 82 degrees - here in Cass Lake it was 23 degrees! The canyons, as you drive into St. George, are full of colors blacks, oranges, reds, greys, blues and even a little bit of green. You can see Joshua Trees (cactus), palm trees, and even a few lakes.

I always enjoy visiting there because my great-grandfather and cousin live there. When we visit St. George, we enjoy going to the Lava Caves in Snow Canyon, and the sand dunes. The sand dunes are warm and you can feel the heat through your shoes. Snow Canyon is full of orange and red walls of sandstone. The lava caves are from old magma flows and really dark; we needed headlights and had to watch our heads because the lava rocks are really sharp.

Our last visit was to say goodbye to my great-grandma, yet even though the trip was full of sorrow, we still made lots of amazing memories. We had water fights, we hiked, we swam, we laughed and we took care of Grandpa Perry. My mom and dad showed us where they met, their schools and places they went as teenagers. We drove through the neighborhood and saw the house where my mom grew up, we drove past the spot where mom and dad met while cruising the boulevard. We even drove past subdivisions my Grandpa Perry developed. It was pretty cool to see the town I was born in and how it had changed.

My great-grandpa took me and my parents to one of his investment homes. It was AMAZING! It had a pool in the middle of the house, an awesome lava rock yard, a wall that opened all the way up so you could barbecue while still being inside. I even put dibbs on which room I wanted! The home was full of windows and you could feel the sunshine through each window.

St. George is a large city, with all the shopping you can imagine, golf courses everywhere, a large hospital complex, a college, lots and lots of restaurants. There is a Latter-Day Saint temple and Latter-Day Saint Churches on what looked like every corner. I wouldn't want to live there because the summers get really hot, but I love visiting. Each trip is always fun, full of laughs and lots of love. The best part of our trips are the stories that get retold over and over about St. George. We get to hear about how my mom and dad were both cruising the boulevard and my mom and her cousin thought my dad and his friends were cussing and flipping them off, so my mom and her cousin stopped to see why they were mad at them and come to find out they were just telling them to come over and talk to them. It's always neat to see the place they first met.

-tk