WHERE MOST OF THE STATE OF UTAH SPENT THEIR PRESIDENTS WEEKEND...

Want to do something fun, action packed, and calorie burning, 

that NO ONE else will decide to do

on a 3 day weekend in sunny,

St. George?

Then do not  go on a hike

above the city on the red hill

like we

and 1000 other people did.

  

 On the plus side, I discovered that: 

 And that kids have endless engery,

and no fear....

This part of the hike, we like to call the narrows....

Most have trouble squeezing through,

and women like me simply say

"no freakin' way am I going to have a solid rock wall

 against the back of my head,

and another solid rock wall against my face..."

This is not for the claustrophobic.......

(think 127 hours but in a smaller pace...)

However, getting through and back into the

sunshine, you feel

on top of the world. 

Or so I've been told.

Why wasn't Bumma in this picture?

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the

fact that she wouldn't fit....

right.......

I'm sticking with the

 claustrophobic excuse....... 

They don't believe me either.....

OUT WITH THE OLD....... AND IN WITH THE NEW

My first experience of out with the old,

this year, was when my heat pump

went kaput

and I had to buy a new unit.

I guess after 28 years the old one decided it had
done enough work.
I feel that way too sometimes.

Next we moved our office of 15 years,

Leaving the old office was emotional...

Seriously,

Who would want to leave ALL this?

For this......

The new nurses station...

My old office, which shows my desk the

 cleanest it has been in 15 years.

This is my new office....

everything isn't unpacked yet..

But the things that are,

I have trouble remembering where I put them.

Even the bathrooms are sleek and new.

The most important room:

The kitchen, with a full size fridge.

For the first time in 25 years!

Dr. Stucki, my friend and boss for 25 years.

Me, trying to hold back the tears

As I prepared to leave my old office for the last time

I repeat, tears flowed as I left my office

for the last time.....

Ok this is the best I could do for the "act all emotional" scene.

 Now I'm left wondering

when they will start to replace the old and bring in the new

in the employee division....

I'm in serious trouble when that happens.