3 Days of Happiness...Part 3

After two days of waking up early, and staying up late, we decided it was finally time to sleep in! It was great. We woke up around 9, and still made it out of the hotel around 9:30! We drove around St. George, went to the St. George temple, and spent the entire drive to Cedar City talking about our beliefs and what makes us, us. I love how different we are, but how similar we are at the same time!

Anyways, the drive to Cedar City is only about an hour, so we got there about 11. My grandpa grew up in Cedar City, so I gave him a call and we went and found the house he grew up in. How cute!!!

 

On the way back to the restaurant where we planned on having lunch, Violet said, "LOOK! THAT HOUSE! IT'S SOOOOOO PRETTY!" So I turned the car around just so we could go back and look.

 

 

Turns out that pretty little house was a bed and breakfast, and let me tell you, it was the cutest thing EVER!

 

 

Seriously, if you're ever in Cedar City and need a place to stay, look up The Garden Cottage Bed and Breakfast. You won't regret it!  Oh, and be sure to ask for the "Hollyhock" room. ;)The lady who owned it was so nice, she gave us a tour and a post card, and told us to come back anytime! Violet and I fell in love with that place.

 

 

After there, we went to the best little sandwich place, called The Pastry Pub. The stuff on the sandwich may sound strange, but trust them (and me!), it's delicious.

 

Since we were taking it slow going home, we decided to look up attractions between Cedar City and Ogden. We stumbled across Cove Fort, and decided that it was worth the time to stop!

 

 



 

The sister missionary that showed us around was Sister Robb, she was so chatty and friendly, and made the experience really fun without being overly churchy for either of us. There is such a rich history to Utah... I'm so happy I got a chance to see it... and experience it.

 

Three days, a couple hundred bucks, fifteen hundred miles, and a million memories later, we made it home.

 

And if we weren't already tuckered out, we decided to go out to dinner with my dad and sister, and her dad, Don. We chose Café Rio, a family favorite of ours, (trying to settle the dispute between Café Rio and Costa Vida.... no conclusions were made) and we spent a couple of hours eating and talking, telling the tales, laughing at the mistakes and bumps in the road, and joking about how far over the speed limit Violet went.... Okay... I guess I did too. But I'll never tell how far over! ;)

 

 

I have to be honest, most people would be tired of spending three days pent up in the car with the same person. But when we parted ways that night, I was a little bit sad! I wasn't ready for our three days alone together to be over.

 

I titled these posts 3 days of Happiness because truly, that's what I had.

 

And now that the days are long gone, and the miles have all been driven, I'm still not ready for that trip to be over. But it is. So it will live in my memory, and in my heart, and I will always treasure and remember the days I spent with my Best Friend exploring Southern Utah and Northern Arizona.

 

Forever and a Day,