Kanab, Utah

We spent the weekend in Kanab, Utah. It was so beautiful. We wanted to leave first thing Saturday morning, but we decided we wanted to get a portable DVD player for the trip. We finally found one at Costco, so we didn't get to leave until like 1pm.

We just looked at our road atlas, and picked a route. :) It was snowing pretty hard here when we left, so we were a little concerned it would be awful the whole way, but thankfully after Nephi, there was nothing. Miaya fell asleep pretty quickly.

We drove through Zions and it was right at sunset. It was soooo amazing. Breathtaking. We didn't take any pictures, because at that point we were just trying to get to Kanab. There were all these huge redrock cliffs everywhere. They looked purple in the fading light. And there was this long tunnel we drove in through the mountain cliff thing. I have never heard of it before. It was really dark and long, and you weren't allowed to stop in it. So cool. There was snow everywhere too. A beautiful contrast.

I think this was around Cedar City. Before we got to Zion National Park.

This is up Johnson Canyon, which is inside Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

Dustin and Miaya by Old Paria. I guess there was an actual town here that had been flooded out several times, and eventually everyone left. Frank Sinatra had a movie set built here for a movie he filmed, and a couple of years ago some arsonist burned it down, so there are no buildings there anymore.

Again by Old Paria
We drove down this road, and it was really muddy.

Moqui Cave. This was an interesting cave. It's one of those roadside oddities. Very cool to see once. I doubt we'll ever come here again, unless we're taking someone there to see it.

Can't Fight This Feeling

The world has gone Valentines Day crazy. And by the world I mean I have. bahahahaha! Okay, that was probably only funny to me. I got a good laugh out of it. But really, today I have been listening to a Valentines Day playlist from playlist dot com. It was just there on the home page thingy, so I clicked on it. At first it was all lovey dovey like Love Me Tender by Elvis, and At Last by Etta James. It then moved into songs like All Out of Love by Airsupply and Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's. Now the list is right in the middle, and it's playing Tired of You by the Foo Fighters! hahahaha. It becomes more lovey dovey again towards the end. But I like this playlist. It makes me think of the different loves people have out there. Good, bad, angry, sweet, physical, messy, complicated.

I'm not one to celebrate Valentines Day, usually. I can't think of any specific Valentine's Day at all, except the one that I worked at Flower Patch. That wasn't very fun. Lot's of people (mostly men) coming in and buying flowers. Their attitudes where anywhere from rushed to completely pissed to easy-going to excited. It was quite an experience. I'm just going to take the opportunity of Valentine's Day to let everyone whom is special to me, that they are.

This weekend, though, we may be going for a little road trip. I'm excited. Dustin has the rest of the week off after today, so we are going to do SOMETHING. :) And he has Monday off too! That was a nice surprise. (President's Day) We started with the idea of just going to Fish Springs for the day on Saturday, and then I thought about Moab, and then Dustin suggested Blanding and Monticello. And then we started getting crazy and throwing New Mexico around! hahahahahaha. We will have to see. So we might just go somewhere for the day, or we might spend a couple of days somewhere. We were pleasantly surprised to find out that quite a few hotels allow dogs, at no extra charge. Pretty cool. :)

It's 1:10 pm and Miaya has already had a nap! I'm pretty excited. I hope this is the start of another beautiful rountine. (: