4th of July fun!

For the 4th of July we got up early and attended the ward flag raising ceremony and breakfast and then took off to see a place Lance had told us about - Red Creek Reservoir and a drive over the mountains to Panguitch.  It was a beautiful drive with showers to brighten everything up.  We lunched overlooking an awesome, deep canyon with a creek running down to fill the lake in Panguitch.  It was so pretty we ended up hiking down to get a closer look.  After that we stopped by Cedar Breaks and enjoyed the Wildflower Festival.  It was a glorious feast of color - impossible to capture in photos.  It was so pretty we decided to bring Anna Lou up the next evening to see it and to enjoy a picnic!  And then we came home to fireworks with the Borrowmans and the Smiths up on the hill!  A really fun day!

We weren't disappointed!  If anything, it was even prettier and almost no one was there since it was a bit rainy.  We came home through Parowan and saw the Jesse N. Smith home (a pioneer relative of Paul).