President's Day weekend "edventures"

Saturday afternoon started with Paul and I attending the Dixie College Art Show - a yearly tradition that we enjoy.  Every year they ask you to vote for your favorite painting for a People's Choice award.  Every year it is not possible to choose a favorite.  This year I decided I would try.  Even though there were many others that I liked just as much I chose Kate Starling's "Dry Creek Bed" because I have enjoyed hiking in places that looked so much like it so many times.  She has many beautiful  paintings of outdoor scenery that I like.  

After that we decided to take a bike ride on a trail the neighbors told us about - "Dogtown Wash" out in Washington.  It is a little piece of bike trail that goes along the river on one section and up a really cool canyon on another section.  We did both.  There were some hills that made us breath.  I need to get all of my bike riding parts back into shape.  While we were there a guy told us about another trail pretty close by that was just a dirt trail - Grapevine.  We headed over there and did a few miles on it until it was time to call it a day.  It will take me a while to get back to riding dirt, sand and rocks again.  It was really pretty and we only saw some horseback riders on their way back.  Also, it is impossible for me to take pictures without just stopping and sometimes on the hills you just don't want to break your momentum, so we didn't get many pictures of the beautiful scenery that was there to enjoy.  

The trail pictures are of the Dogtown Wash trail.  We saw the bird on Grapevine.  He didn't much like having me take his picture and flew off to another pole pretty quick.  

Monday we talked the Borrowmans into taking another bike ride with us.  We did quite a bit of car jockying to make it happen.  We started the ride at the top Snow Canyon on the bike trail that goes along Hwy. 89 and enjoyed the mostly downhill ride turning onto Snow Canyon Parkway and going under the road and ending at a little park in Dixie Downs area - probably about 8 miles. We stopped off along the way to see the job that Paul is working on up in the Ledges. Ferf had the hardest part pulling Gaige and Koen up the hills of the dips.  Kennis scared us all when she had brake failure at the sharp turn to go under the road and did a perfect crash into the bushes instead of a sign or a tree that could have caused her quite a bit of damage.  She came out scared, but unscathed thankfully. Our morning prayers for a safe day were in effect.  Ice cream and fries at Arctic Circle helped us all get over the trauma and we ended on a good note.  I think we can say that we all had a good time.  We are going to work on Kennis' bike before another bike ride.  Tavin is going to work on learning to use his gears.  Brynnli is probably converted to riding the tandem with Grandpa.  They just zinged along trying not to leave us all behind in their dust.  We should have hooked the bike trailer up to that bike!  Bike riding doesn't hurt Paul's knees, so we are going to be doing a lot more of it.