I love my 3-day week ends...and rocks!

 I've probably said it before, but again I say that I love my work schedule that gives me Fridays off. It's kind of like being semi-retired because it gives me the chance to have a day to do home stuff like cleaning, laundry, shopping, bill paying, etc. and then a day for recreation and then Sunday to go to church and spend more than the daily time studying the Gospel.  It's wonderful! It also help us to have some time to spend with Bean with him living up in Cedar right now at the Mountain View House facility.  

This weekend was a great example of using that time in this way.  On Friday we did sleep in (another perk) and then took an extended morning walk, instead of the usual one.  We went out to Snow Canyon and walked parts of the Hidden Pinion trail and the Red Sands Trail to reach the Overlook Trail which is one of my favorite short hikes there.  It turned into a longer hike when we came back via the West Canyon Road and part of the paved trail to get back to our parking spot.  It was a beautiful morning.  Then we headed back home and I cleaned house, did the laundry, paid the bills and worked on books, and then did the shopping.  It was a really productive, great day!

On Saturday morning, for our recreation, we went and picked up Bean and then drove over to Cathedral Gorge State Park in Nevada.  It's a really unique place and we enjoyed the small Visitor's Center and then loved hiking the little slot canyons back into the eroded rocks.   We ended our visit by going to the Miller Overlook where ate a very cool picnic lunch before heading back home.  Bean wasn't too into it, but he wanted to go, and it was good to spend some time with him.  We also drove over to see Bullfrog pond, a warm springs swimming hole and an arch that are in Panaca (Siri says it "Panica") as we were leaving town.  We had all swum in the pond long ago.  It was a great day and so fun to enjoy a place that we hadn't thoroughly explored in past visits.