Road Trip

I took advantage of the holiday weekend and drove down to St. George with one of my friends. I have been wanting to see the plays/musicals at Tuacahn this year. It was a great weekend. We drove down Friday morning and went to see Big River at Tuacahn that night. It was fabulous. I have never seen this musical before. I wasn't familiar with any of the music or even the storyline. I knew it was about Huckleberry Finn and that was it. It was amazing. The Tuacahn theatre itself is amazing. It is set back into the red rock canyons in Ivins just outside of St. George. The backdrop to the stage is the red rocks of Snow Canyon itself. They use those red rocks and the stage becomes the whole area surrounding the normal platform stage. Saturday we went shopping at the Outlet malls and hit some great sales. Another reason to go to St. George over Labor Day. After shopping for a couple hours we decided to go swimming in the pool at the hotel. It was so relaxing. I have not been swimming for such a long time. I forgot how relaxing it is to swim. Of course I wasn't swimming like Michael Phelps or anything because that doesn't look relaxing. I just floated and cooled off. Then lounged in the sun for a few minutes. Just enough to get a little tan and then jumped back in the nice cool pool. Saturday night we went to see Les Miserables at Tuacahn. Les Mis is one of my favorite musicals. They did a great job. It was possibly one of the best versions of Les Mis that I have seen. Sunday we drove to Las Vegas to do some more shopping. We headed home today and for once I feel completely relaxed after a vacation. It is a great feeling. I should be tired since it was a lot of driving but I don't. I feel relaxed and ready for a few more months of work and life until my next trip.