When I think back to Memorial Day Weekend 2007 I will have two words in which to remember this trip… Diareah and Vomit.

Although this may be one in a million weekend posts, we had a fun little road trip despite a little stomach bug so here I am to tell you about it…

One thing we love about UT is the beautiful national parks we have here. When we moved here we thought we’d get outdoors a lot and see tons of cool stuff. Well, we have, in a small way, but there is so much cooler stuff to see than the hikes we’ve done on in the Wasatch Mountain range.

For a while now, Jer has been all revved up to go to Zion’s National Park. He booked a hotel for an over night trip and the luckily my uncle offered his spank’n brand new winter home in St George to stay at. It’s a little bit further from the park but hey, it was free. So we packed up and ended staying the whole weekend. yipee!

Our adventures started on the drive down. Isaac was just screaming the whole way.

We thought, “Gosh, what is wrong with our mild boy?”

“He must be really bored… here, feed him all the junk food we can find…”

Then all of the unexpected sudden… gush, spray, vomit… flowing out of his little body!! I’ve never seem so much liquid and chunks flying out of such a little mouth. The memory of it makes my stomach churn. I didn’t catch an ounce of it in a bag or cup of anything. It all ended up in his lap. The stench filled the air.

“Hurry, take that exit!” I exclaimed a moment too late.

The next sign read “Next gas station 30 minutes”

“Oh, no” we cried in unison.

Isaac was sobbing. Looking at me with terrified eyes, “Mommy, save me from this retched existence of a vomit covered lap.”

The stench was making me dry heave. I couldn’t look back at my poor boy for fear of what might happen to my stomach contents. I begged Jer to pull over along the side of the road. I just couldn’t wait 30 minutes. We spent the next hour using water bottles and wipes to clean up our stenchy boy and his car seat. Why do they make so many cracks in car seats? It is such a pain to clean out crumbs, let alone throw up.

Well, we were all happy to get back on the road again an we arrived (late) at our comfortable quarters without any other catastrophes.

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On Saturday we took our time getting up, headed to the pool (because this is the number one thing that Emma wanted to do) for a quick dip and then headed up to Zions. Zions has changed things up a little bit since I was there last. You have to take park and take a shuttle to the main canyon. We first drove up to see the tunnel built in 1930 and then caught a shuttle to Weeping rock. Super cool. The water seeps out of the cliff constantly and drips down like rain. It was hot so we enjoyed getting splashed. I guess the water has been in the ground for thousands of years. Woowzers! They can test the oxygen in the water somehow to find out how old it is.

We then headed up to the bottom of the narrows. I loved this. Way fun! I’ve always heard of the narrows but have never hiked them. I guess the real hike is a full day long. We just got a taste of it. It’s a river hike. There is no other option but to hike in the river. It was a lot more cooler because of the shade from the steep canyon walls. (pictures will be coming soon)

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On Sunday we relaxed and saw a few sites around the town of St. George. We took a tour of an old Pioneer house. I have made this note to myself…

Note: One year olds do not like being confined in tours with old jabbery ladies!!!

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Monday: Rode our bikes up Snow Canyon. Beautiful!!! Jer pulled the kids in a borrowed bike trailer. I rode behind huffing and puffing carrying only the diaper bag. (I enjoyed the ride down.) After the hot ride, it was a must that we took a dip in the pool with Popsicles in hand. Ahhh, life is so hard some times. (he he)

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Now we have packed up and are heading back home. I am sitting on I-15 in road construction using Jer’s work laptop that has a mobile internet thingy that allows me to access the internet from ANYWHERE. Covet me, I dare you. He he….

Overall it was a pleasant trip besides the many runny, messy diapers we had to clean up. Poor Isaac!

Check back later for fun pictures…